Venus de Smilo Mystery Cache

Venus de Smilo

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This cache and its partners in Warren, PA, Happy Elvis and Gasport, NY, I Can See Four sMiles, are both dedicated to cacher Chris K. Shortly after Chris joined the geocaching world, smiley balls began popping up in caches all over Northeast Ohio. We collect other cachers’ swag and traded for the first one we saw. After a while we decided to start trading for all the smiley balls we found in caches Chris had visited. Why? We did it to place this cache.

This cache requires no trades from you. To log this smiley, you only need to visit the cache, sign the log, and take a smiley item. The cache contains two types of smiley’s, Chris K’s signature smiley balls and small smiley magnets. When Chris realized what we were doing, he was kind enough to provide us two boxes of these happy trade items. The sad news is that the smiley balls are no longer available so we will not be able to reload the cache with this item many times.

If you have already collected one of the smiley balls, please leave those for other cachers who have not traded for one. You are welcome to take a smiley magnet. We will continue to replenish the cache with smiley magnets and other smiley items once the smiley balls are gone. When you sign the log, there are smiley stickers in the cache so leave a smiley in the log for the cacher following you.

Geocaching is a fun game. Please enjoy this cache. We do hope you have a nice day.

The cache is located in Aurora’s Sunny Lake Park. Please obey posted park hours and DO NOT CACHE AT NIGHT. The park is heavily used, but you should be able to avoid muggles if you are careful. The round trip from the parking lot on Mennonite Road to the cache and back again is about 3/4 mile.

The coordinates above will not take you to the cache. To find the cache, you need to answer the following questions and plug them into these coordinates.

N41 17.UVW W081 19.XYZ

U: Find the year the first yellow smiley button was invented. U is the third number of that year.


V: Add FOUR to the answer below. Chris K’s first cache find was:

1 Tombstone Tickler

2 Striptease

3 No Deer Here

4 Time to Play Ball


W: Chris K is from which Northeast Ohio County:

6 Ashtabula

4 Cuyahoga

2 Geauga

0 Portage


X: Chris K gained notoriety with NEOGEO cachers by walking barefoot in water during the winter to find which of the caches below:

1 Beach Blanket Bingo

2 Presque Isle Beach Cache

3 Red Wanted It This Way

4 Explore in the Rocky River Reservation


Y: Which artist released a recent cd that features a slightly smirking smiley on the cover?

7 50 Cent

0 Bon Jovi

3 Kelly Clarkson

6 Alan Jackson


Z: Find the year of the first documented use of the typed smiley :) in print. Z is the last digit of that year plus ONE.


All of these questions can be answered with information from the internet. Good Luck and have some fun. There is a special smiley First To Find Keychain in the cache.