Metro NY Geocaching Society

... 11, 2012 1-5 PM This is now the "8th Annual Proto-Picnic!" There are several new Central Park caches to be added to your finds, and some Puzzle Caches that you might want to work on with others in time for the event. 8th Annual Manhattan Proto-Picnic Event Saturday August 11th, 2012 - ...

... and/or after. This is the "10th Annual Proto-Picnic!" There are always new Central Park caches to be added to your finds, and some Puzzle Caches that you might want to work on with others in time for the event. There are open outdoor tables at the Le Pain Quotidien in Central Park ...

... this could be amazing. I love this kind of stuff. I solved Zork when I was a kid and then re-solved it on my Treo as an adult. I totally dig on puzzle hunts. Have designed two of them for the munchkins' school with another coming this spring. John, where are you seeing the info about a NY kickoff?

A new Manhattan puzzle cache is coming down the pike... I'm submitting it for approval in a few minutes; depending on the back-and-forth with NY Admin (and NY Admin's schedule) it should show up in a day or two. Your sneak peak for ...

Excellent! Looks like it was a quick turnaround on this one, it's already up:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... 9161182c17

Every time I finish a puzzle, I always think it will take at least a day or two to solve, but you guys are too good now. Ha, you are one to talk! I worked on New World Cache for weeks, and then you logged it three hours after publication. ...

My brand new shiny puzzle Know thy Elements was solved in three hours. There go all two days of work I put into it. :P Oh, I totally disagree. I think that what it says is that you designed an elegant puzzle with clever hints to the ...

... different spots and taking partial coordinates from each spot to get the location of the final. I struggled with the decision to list it as a Puzzle cache or a Multi cache and ultimately (after conferring with a few cachers I respect in the area) concluded that while the cache has attributes ...

It's interesting, because I myself love puzzles and am often disappointed by puzzle caches that are basically multis with virtual stages. That to me is more like simple task completion than puzzle solving (plugging numbers into an equation isn't ...

... and based on the confusing (to outsiders) nature of building identification in the area. It's pretty cool, and although it's got some slight puzzle-ness to it, it's nothing that should give anyone a heart attack. They make pretty clever use of materials for the physical stage clues that I ...

Another puzzle by G.O. Cash - . It's a good one. As difficult as the puzzle is, there have already been close to 10 visitors in less than a month - pretty good sign that New York puzzlecaching has a heartbeat.

Brand new New York City puzzle by dhmbat - his first hidden cache of any kind as near as I can tell.



It's got a CITO theme and is well-executed. Great to have a new player in the New York puzzling scene...

... misleading..? I had heard rumors of Pofe's identity and wouldn't have used the same pronoun... I've been working on a bunch of Harry-Andy puzzle caches lately so I'm on to your tricks!

... In brief, a short while ago a (relatively) new cacher listed a cache in an area that conflicted with a hidden stage for one of New York's many puzzle and/or multi caches. By my count there are around 50 hidden physical stages on the island of Manhattan alone, so it's not unusual to bump up ...

... gum or duct tape would have done as well) and the cache container then floated to the top. GENIUS! That is brilliant! And you say you don't like puzzle caches John... If the spirit of that cache isn't straight out of an Infocom game I don't know what is. Wow. Great.