Looks like multiphobia has mutated to puzzlephobia! 😯

Well said Marc! I personally would be proud that somebody couldn’t just run out to my puzzle cache right away. It would say I put a lot of thought into my cache!

This is why most of our new caches are either puzzles, or high terrain caches, etc. It filters the gene pool. Yes, I do not want every cacher to find our caches. So there, I said it.

@marc_54140 wrote:

The recent farce about no find in 48 hours ……. well!?

Now it’s a farce? I see. I’m only here for your amusement. 😕

Did you open a new thread because the previous thread was closed?
If you had information you wanted to share with me, could this perhaps have been better served to me via pm?

I’ll assume you’ve clicked on my user and determined that I haven’t been registered on geocaching for more than a few months. Sorry I don’t know all the fine intricate details that comes from the experience of caching for several years and logging thousands of finds.

I didn’t create a thread because I was complaining. Did it seem to you that I was complaining? Well, I’m sorry that with the presence of so many different personalities around here, and with the absence of tone, eye contact and other body language, only 10% of whats really said in a message actually makes it across in the intended context.

In the time I’ve been geocaching, most of which has been in the winter,
I’ve seen new caches last only a few hours, even in fresh snow and sub-zero temperatures and, SURPRISE, a few miles outside of town away from the area where cache placements are most dense.
If that wasn’t enough, an ISLAND CACHE, away from town that lasted only a few hours before FTF. An island a half mile away from the mainland at that.

I’ve chased a FTF opportunity, well outside of town, at night, in below-zero temperatures because I knew it wouldnt last long.

What else can I think other than NEWLY PLACED CACHES don’t last more than a couple hours; regardless of where they’re placed or what type of cache they are?

And then I place one. 48 hours goes by, and Im sitting here scratching my head… Surprised.
“Did my puzzle really stump some people?” –I wouldnt think so… It wasnt that hard.

I even made note of it myself, that timing wasn’t ideal. The weekend had already come & gone before the reviewer published it. I KNOW that didn’t help it much.

I can only go off of what I know–What I knew was new caches don’t last long before the FTF gets it. Was I wrong to assume that?

When I posted on the forum, I was more or less promoting it, trying to be somewhat subtle. I was saying, “hey, theres a new cache here, come get it!” Why? Because I worked hard on it. I was proud of it! I wanted to share it!

I only got upset after another member posted some kind of joke that would be perceived as some sort of hint. “How very uncool”, I thought.
A lot of you guys pointed out that 99% of cemetery caches are hid in Cedar trees. Well, my experience grabbing cemetery caches so far has been quite the opposite. I’ve found one in a bush, in a stump, in an oak tree… Sad to say only one in a cedar tree.

If he knew the Cemetery where the cache is, that guy probably wouldnt have said what he said.
Maybe this place only has 2 or 3 cedar trees in the whole place, and the rest are those types that lose their leaves in the winter months…
Are there really cemeteries like that? Well, I can name at least one.

And the 4 people watching it… What to think of that.
Im not foolish enough to believe they’re watching it because it’s such an interesting cache. They’re watching it because of the drama it created and the spectacle it has become. I’ll be lying if I said I wasn’t embarrassed.

I’ve seen new caches last only a few hours, even in fresh snow and sub-zero temperatures and, SURPRISE, a few miles outside of town away from the area where cache placements are most dense.

I’d be willing to bet almost all of those were traditional caches or two stage multi’s.

As you gain more experience, you’ll understand that traditional caches are far and away more popular than multi’s and puzzle caches. Some, heck maybe even many, people simply WILL NOT bother with multi or puzzle caches, no matter how easy they are. Puzzle caches in particular. I was guilty of that when I first started out.

If you place a multi or puzzle cache, you have to know up front that you’re placing a cache that only a small percentage of geocachers will seek out.

And then I place one. 48 hours goes by, and Im sitting here scratching my head… Surprised.
“Did my puzzle really stump some people?” –I wouldnt think so… It wasnt that hard.

I’m not a great puzzle solver, so don’t read too much into this, but it stumped me 😯

@marc_54140 wrote:

….and PLEASE. Keep this one on topic! That applies to everyone!

The topic is the fact that most cachers will not do puzzles or multis.

To which it seems everyone agrees. So to quote someone….”What’s the point?”