A collection of puzzle resources for geocachers. Pulled from information in the Geocaching Forums.

1. How Do I Solve All
These &#$@! Puzzle
Caches?
TripCyclone

2. The Cache Page itself
• Name/Title
• Hidden by (this can be anything the CO chooses, not
necessarily their official handle)
• Hidden on (the date can be set by the CO to any date
in the past)
• Size, difficulty, and terrain
• Coordinates
• Cache description (including hidden text and hidden
comments – more on this later)
• Images (background image, gallery, and in the
description)
• Additional waypoints
• The hint
• Inventory (travel bugs, along with related images and
logs)
• Logs

3. A Couple of Geocaching.com Resources
• GC25WQJ - A puzzle that walks you through
common ways to hide information
• Puzzle Solving 101 – a series of caches built
around how to solve puzzles.
• Lesson in Ciphers – a series of cipher caches built
to teach about ciphers
• Puzzle Shortcuts Series – a series of caches that
teach about solving puzzles. A “Cliff Notes”
version
• Post by NiraD – NiraD regularly posts this info on
the forums when people ask for puzzle help.

4. Codes and Ciphers
• Morse Code
• Binary Code
• Languages – BabelFish & Google
Translate
• Cipher Tools

5. Word Puzzles
• Dictionary.com
• Word Search
• Crossword Puzzles
• Anagrams
– Andy’s Anagram Solver
– I Rearrangement Servent (Internet
Anagram Solver)
• Wikipedia

6. Math Puzzles
• Unit Conversion
• Area Calculations
• Recreational Mathmatics – a
wikipedia article that contains lots
of links and resources, including
math puzzles

7. Logic Puzzles
• Sudoku – Wikipedia has
some great information,
but here is a Sudoku
resource list
• Sudoku Solver – solves
several variants
• Logic Problems – a
common form in puzzle
books (and my GC Killer
Puzzle)

8. Trivia
• Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc
• Wikipedia
• IMDB – Internet Movie Database
• Places Named – a listing of
locations within the US

9. General Puzzle Resources
• Puzzle – wikipedia page for
puzzles; branches out into many
wikipedia entries about different
puzzles
• National Puzzlers League – lots of
info and some solvers