Geocaching: Puzzle Cache

We've just completed a puzzle cache. It's a traditional cache, but has a puzzle or a cipher included that needs to be successfully worked out before the coordinates to the final cache site are revealed.

The one we've just done was about a 'The Ugly Bug Ball' (put this term into YouTube if you need a reminder...or an introduction as I did) based on the song created by Disney. This got Lucy very excited, spurred on by childhood memories, and she was raring to go immediately as we'd uploaded the coordinates to the GPS! There were 3 caches, in each cache there was a card with the 'cordial invite' of two bugs. Then we needed to come home to work out the answer, for this cache there was a cipher to decode.

The clue was that two of these six bugs would act as the keyword leading to the decoding of the encrypted coordinates. Luckily the Internet is filled with lots of web pages that will decode enciphered text!

So, tonight we took Curious Luke, the Travel Bug discussed in a previous post, and placed him with the bugs in the ugly bug ball! Hopefully he'll have a great time. These puzzle caches can be great fun, can't wait until the next one!