Welcome to the WSGA Event Committee's Puzzle Solving Event Series (PSES)!!!
We will be hosting events about once a month at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery meeting room with the focus of learning about how to solve all types of puzzle caches! Each event will have a primary focus and a presentation to go along with it. After the presentation, there will be time to solve puzzles and get assistance.
After each event, a mystery cache will be published to test the knowledge that you learned at the event. The cache's puzzle will be based on the topic of each event.
This is the presentation that was used at the event. Reading through it will make solving this puzzle a breeze! PSES V Slideshow
Puzzle
A: What is the first step to creating a Puzzle Cache?
9= Find a location for the final
8= Figure out an idea for the puzzle
6= Craft a container
0= Any of the above can be a first step
B: What is the number one rule to follow after you have finished putting your puzzle togther but before it's been submitted?
5= Leave the container in place for two weeks to make sure it doesn't get muggled
7= Ask a reviewer to check you puzzle for you
8= Send you puzzle to at least one or two friends; don't tell them anything, just have them solve the puzzle and tell you what went well, what didn't and what could use fixing
2= Nothing, just submit your cache for review
C: What is the one pitfall you should avoid (in general) when creating a Puzzle Cache?
0= Creating puzzle caches with a 5.0 Difficulty
5= Mindless tasks (Cypher text in an image that, 600 piece jigidi, etc.)
7= Placing your cache in a LPC or guardrail for the final
2= Creating Puzzle Caches with a 1.0 Difficulty
D: What type of solution will allow you to have the most creative puzzle possible?
2= A keyword to be entered in Certitude or used for a calculation (like A=1, B=2, etc.)
5= Coordinates in the N xx xx.xxx W xx xx.xxx format
7= Decimal seconds (.xxx & .xxx) of coordinates
3= Any of the above
E: As a Puzzle Cache owner, what is the one major thing that you should do in order to keep in good relations with the puzzle solvers?
2= Don't make a puzzle that is just an image on a cache page and nothing else
8= Always give hints (doesn't need to be major) when someone messages and asks for help, after the FTF has been claimed
6= Send a congratulatory message to every cacher who finds one of your Puzzle Caches
1= Hide the final container so the maximum difficulty is 2.0
F: After solving a well-designed Puzzle Cache, how should the cacher feel?
0= Amazing, like they are the smartest person to ever live
9= Good, like they learned somthing and/or they enjoyed themselves
4= Bad, like they had to outsmart the cache owner
1= Awful, like they could never solve a Puzzle Cache again
The cache is located at N 47 32.ABC W 122 02.DEF.
A solution checker is provided on the geocaching.com website. You must be on the website to view the checker, it can not be viewed from the app. If your inputed coordinates are correct, the cache coordinates will be automatically updated to show the location of the final.
This cache was placed by the Washington State Geocaching Association. If you are a geocacher in the state of Washington, please consider joining the Washington State Geocaching Association. Follow this link to visit our website to learn more about becoming a WSGA member.