You Know You're a Geocacher When... Mystery Cache

You know you’re a geocacher when...you receive a ‘You know you’re a geocacher when...’ quote in a text from a friend and think, “I could make a puzzle cache with these phrases!”

The cache is located in Preservation Park. Parking is available at the posted coordinates, although there are many access points from side streets surrounding the park. BYOP and tweezers to remove the log.

For example, if the answer to 8A is ‘bee’: b=2, e=5, e=5, 2+5+5=12 and 1+2=3. So, where 8A appears in the equation, you would put in a ‘3’.

The cache can be found at:

N  (8A)(7A)  (1A-9A)(3A-4A).(10D)(4D)(8D-3D)

W  (1D+9D)(6A-2D)  (7D-5D)(2A-5A).(10A-6D)(11A-9A)(10A)

ACROSS

You know you’re a geocacher when...

1. your party invitations include GPS ______________
2. you begin referring to your pets with the prefix "____________"
3. you mark a _____________ for your car at the shopping mall
4. your idea of gift-giving is to hide the gifts in the garden with co-ords and a __________
5. you sort through your pockets at the checkout at the supermarket and can only offer ___________
6. your co-workers hate you because every time you take a pencil or stapler from their desks you ________ a stupid toy car, pocket knife or battery
7. you see something out of place you have the urge to check it and ___________ it back under something
8. you see a bunch of ___________ in the woods think, “you know, I should just walk through those...”
9. the Easter Egg hunt you organize for your nephews involves the use of GPS units and is in the form of a _________
10. you’re standing at a party, and you spot a ____________ in the rock bed
11. the first thing that comes into your __________ when your work takes you somewhere new is, "I must find at least one cache here!"

DOWN

You know you’re a geocacher when...

1. your idea of decorating the Christmas tree is to conceal all the presents at its foot, beneath a ________ covering of tinsel
2. you automatically look around to ensure that you are not being _______________ before opening your lunch box at work
3. you buy your groceries based on whether the ________________ would make suitable geocaches
4. you are describing to someone where a particular store is and you relate its ______________ to a nearby cache you found
5. at work, a colleague brings out their Tupperware lunch box and you automatically reach for your pen to sign the ____________
6. you are watching TV and think “That’s a ________________ place. I wonder where the nearest cache is?
7. ...two words - Head _________
8. someone asks you where the photocopier is and you say, "25 feet at a bearing of 270 ____________".
9. you consider moving because you’ve already found all the _____________ in your area
10. the idea of going into the middle of the deep, dark ________ at night is not scary - it's an exciting, night caching adventure!

You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.