12:00 Noon to 6:00 PM
Fall pot luck, games, prizes, and most importantly... geo-friends!
I'll take Fun Times at Keystone Lake for $200, mrGreen... Answer: A game that challenges your geocaching, geography, and geologic knowledge while being surrounded by your friends in the geocaching community. What is Geo-Jeopardy?
That's right! The Game Night event series by Two "greens" arrives this autumn to a west-side-of-JAGA-land location, Keystone State Park, for another year of Fall-time fun! After a year hiatus in 2024, we are happy to include a 2025 Community Celebration at the Fall Game Night.
Probable schedule:
Before 12:00 pm: The pavilion is rented all day; setup will be ongoing at GZ as soon as the hosts are able to arrive, sometime between 10am and 10:30am; enjoy the offerings of the state park if you arrive before the official start time. You might even want to track down some area geocaches if desired.
12:00 PM: Event kick off; meet and greet
12:30 PM: Food, friends, and geo-conversation
1:30 PM: Geo-Jeopardy - Four contestants will battle each other giving the questions that match the stated answers in two rounds (Geo-Jeopardy and Double Geo-Jeopardy) to earn the most geo-cache-points and be declared the winner! We intend to have our buzzers, video question boards, and theme music to provide a realistic Geo-Jeopardy experience. After a few years since our last Geo-Jeopardy, who will be our next champ?
2:30 PM: Intermission (Game reset)
2:45 PM: Celebrate 25 Years of Geocaching with another edition of The Geo-Family Feud! With some newer survey questions from the summer of 2025 (several dealing with the themes of Geocaching's silver anniversary), we are pleased to include a second dose of the Feud in 2025. Get your teams ready now! We will only have room for two teams of 5 to 6 players each for a single four or five question game followed by Fast Money. Which team can think most like our surveyed geocachers and come up with the top answers to win the game?
3:30 PM: Intermission (Game reset)
3:45 PM: Wheel of Geocaching "America's favorite game" has become a favorite for the geo-version at our Game Night events. Since we played some different games after "The Feud" at the summer picnic, we have included the "Wheel" this fall, similar to past Fall Events in 2021 (the infamous "Sitting around the ampfire" glitch, since corrected) and in the cold windy event of Fall of 2023. We anticipate between 3-4 contestants for this game, based on sign-ups. If narrowing down from more than four is required, we could do some toss-up style "Wheel" puzzles to work as a play-in round.
4:45 PM (or end of Wheel): Do we still have prizes to give away? Maybe we can make some Geo-Deals or do some drawings, or possibly more 25-year trivia, all depending on who is still hanging around and what is still available. What's in the big ammo box, or behind one of the "curtains"? Be sure to have some possibly-common geo TOTTs on hand, and you might be selected for some of the final available prizes! We have ended previous Fall Game Nights with these additional prizes, so to wrap things up before the packing away of the game equipment, we could give out a few more gifts.
5:15 PM: Event conclusion and final event geo-conversation... Thanks to everyone for joining us!
Keep watching this page for any potential changes or additions to the event schedule.
Soft drinks, bottled water, and individually-wrapped snack foods should be present. green nikki usually provides a delicious warm sandwich, and attendees are invited to bring some of their own favorite dishes or desserts. The Fall Game Night is usually a "pot-luck" style affair, although there is no food or financial obligations imposed to any attendees to attend the event. You are welcome to simply show up and join in the fun! If you do wish to bring food to share, we'll have space available and some electrical outlets will be available within the rented pavilion if needed for any warming devices. If you are planning to share a food dish, posting the name/type of food in your "Will Attend" might be helpful to avoid a lot of duplication.
Helpful Items
Please indicate in your log the number that attend with your geo-user name, and (if possible) what your plans are for food offering or interest. This information will assist with event planning.
Game-Night Information Page (at game-night.org)
As the geocache owner, I ensure that the above link is to a local geocaching group site that is active in the community and contributing to geocaching in positive ways. This link has not been checked by Geocaching HQ or by the reviewer.
Stay tuned! Announcements on this page will be used to communicate any updates or changes to the schedule. If you are "will attended" on this event, these announcements and updates should come to your email via geocaching.com
We are looking forward to sharing more Game Night fun with our geo friends and neighbors this fall!
If you can't stay for the entire event, feel free to drop in as you are able, considering the schedule posted above. If updates to the schedule are made as the event draws near, announcements will be made on this geocaching event listing to serve as alerts to these changes.
Driving to the event: Keystone State Park is located along State Route "1018", an extension of Derry Road (East Derry Street), coming off PA-981, just south of New Alexandria. If you are coming via US-22 from east or west, turn southward at the stoplight by the New Alexandria Sheetz and follow signs for Keystone State Park. Please note the posted speed limits on roads within the park. See this page for maps of the park.
For more information about the park, such as camping, hiking, or fishing opportunities, please see the main park page.
green nikki was granted this Community Celebration Event and is pleased to share it with the Geocaching community as our second Game Night event in 2025 and the return of the "Fall Game Night" series after a one-year hiatus for this event in 2024.
Community Celebration Events - 2025
This Event is part of a limited release of Community Celebration Events to celebrate 25 years of geocaching. Geocachers hosted events between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025. Learn more about Community Celebration Events on the Geocaching Blog.