Welcome to the
Frederick Puzzler's Corner!
A monthly event to encourage puzzle solving in the geocaching community.
If you need help with a specific puzzle or puzzling topic, please make note of it in your
Will Attend log so others can prepare to assist.
Tuesday, January 6th, 2026, 6pm - 8pm
Wegman's Market Cafe
7830 Worman's Mill Road
Frederick, MD
All food and beverage costs are your own responsibility, though no purchase is required.
Join us for the 111th in-person meeting of the Frederick Puzzler's Corner, to do some brainstorming on whatever geocaching puzzle has you stumped. This event is open to all geocachers, no matter what your experience is. Newbies and addicts, socialites and lone wolves, mark your calendar.
If you don't like puzzles, drop in anyway - there are always interesting conversations happening!
Bring your questions and whatever tools you might need for your puzzles, including notes, scratch paper, writing instrument, and/or laptop or tablet - free Wi-Fi is available. This is an unstructured gathering, and we continue to see successes at each meeting. Maybe you'll find inspiration to create your own puzzle cache, as well.
Field trips not included. But it's a great time to plan them!
Now that the holiday rush is over, it's time to settle back into your puzzle list. Since I started this monthly event in 2015, I've watched how geocaching puzzles have evolved from what we consider SOP today, into methods of trickery that we've not yet encountered. I remember when it seemed that many puzzles used simple white text to hide things, or placed important information in the source code; when the math problems were easy, to doctorate levels of equations and formulas; no jigsaw puzzles were in evidence; and red herrings were few and far between. Now we wade through web sites we never dreamed of to hopefully find some type of solver, or translation, or decryption, or identification, or even conversation to help us solve things. If you can't keep your brain young with this game, you're only hunting traditional caches!
If you drop any trackables into this event, make sure they have all been claimed or reclaimed before you leave. We don’t want them getting lost in the muggle world!