GeoFriends Cache Builder
Build a flash mob cache, get a group of friends to the same spot at the same time.
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Link the compound-word chain
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Checkers Cache Builder
Beat the computer at checkers to unlock the cache
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Beat the computer at Connect 4
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Merge the cushions to 2048.
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Critter Corners Cache Builder
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Cross Wordle Cache Builder
Build a crossword from loose letters
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Crossflow Cache Builder
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Crossmath Cache Builder
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Crossy Road Cache Builder
Cross the traffic to unlock the cache
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Cryptogram Cache Builder
Decode the phrase before your mistakes run out
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Deduction Cache Builder
Ask, flip, guess who
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DNF Assault Cache Builder
Hold off the DNFs, then find the cache
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Don't Click The Circle Cache Builder
Tap the squares, dodge the circles, unlock the cache
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Dot Trail Cache Builder
Trace the dots to unlock the cache
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Drone Flyover Builder
Thread the rings, land on the coordinates
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Duck Blind Cache Builder
Tap the ducks before they get away
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Egg Run Cache Builder
Easy on the gas. The egg is watching.
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Emoji Charades Cache Builder
Decode the emoji sayings
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Escape Room Cache Builder
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Falling 2048 Cache Builder
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Fill in the Blank Cache Builder
Name the photo before the blanks fill in
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Flip Knife Cache Builder
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FoxiMax Cache Builder
Hangman that grows
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Free Throw Cache Builder
Flick it, bank it, beat the clock
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Fruit Drop Cache Builder
Drop the fruit to unlock the cache
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Gallows Word Cache Builder
Unlimited guesses. Every wrong letter builds the gallows.
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Grabber Cache Builder
Drop the claw, catch the prize
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Greater Than Sudoku Cache Builder
A daily comparison Sudoku
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Gridiron Cache Builder
Call the play. Beat the Comets.
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Guess My Word Cache Builder
An alphabetical word puzzle
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Hairpin Cache Builder
Tap to turn, stay on the tiles
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Hangman Cache Builder
Guess the word before the peril
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Hangtime Cache Builder
Pull back, let go, land on the mattress
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Hatchet Throw Cache Builder
A spinning target throwing cache
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Heartbeat Cache Builder
Tap the beat, keep the donut whole
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Hex Spin Cache Builder
Turn the hexagon, match the colors
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Hexahedral Cache Builder
Every step changes the board
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Hoop Hop Cache Builder
Sink the hoops to unlock the cache
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Hot or Cold Cache Builder
A warmer/colder map hunt
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Hurdle Cache Builder
Wordle scored like Mastermind
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Ink Trail Cache Builder
Draw a friend. Bring a story to life.
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Invisibles Cache Builder
A daily guess-the-movie game
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Jolly Jump Cache Builder
A bouncing vertical climber cache
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Kayak Cache Builder
Paddle the river, beach on the island
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KenKen Cache Builder
An arithmetic grid puzzle
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Lily Leap Cache Builder
Cross the road and the river to unlock the cache
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Magic 8 Ball Cache Builder
Ask a question. Shake the ball. One answer is the cache.
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Map Snap Cache Builder
Find the spot from a marked map photo
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Marble Trail Cache Builder
Tilt the trail, jump the gaps
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Mastermind Cache Builder
A code-breaking puzzle
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Match Ten Cache Builder
Clear the number-pair board
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Mathler Cache Builder
A daily math puzzle
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Maze Runner Cache Builder
Race a fresh maze against the clock
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Melon Patch Cache Builder
Drop, merge, and grow a watermelon
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Minesweeper Cache Builder
Clear the minefield to unlock the cache
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Mini Golf Cache Builder
Sink the last putt in the ammo can
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Missile Command Cache Builder
Shoot down the warheads to unlock the cache
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Mosaic Builder
Build an image puzzle with server-checked joins
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Movie Rebus Cache Builder
Name the movies in the pictures
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Nonogram Cache Builder
A picture logic puzzle
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Number Slider Cache Builder
The classic sliding number puzzle
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Number Trail Cache Builder
Fill the grid so every number touches the next
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Only Word Cache Builder
Colored rows. One word fits them all. Find it.
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Orbit Cache Builder
Pull the sling, follow gravity, recover the beacon
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Paint Maze Cache Builder
Slide the ball and paint every tile
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Peg Solitaire Cache Builder
The classic triangle peg jumping game
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Photo Shift Builder
Shuffle a photo back together to unlock a cache
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Picture Sudoku Cache Builder
A Sudoku played with pictures
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Plank Cache Builder
Hold to grow, let go to cross
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Quiz Cache Builder
Answer every question on the trail to find the cache
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Quordle & Sedecordle Cache Builder
Many words at once
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Reverse Cache Builder
Navigate by distance and direction
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Ricochet Cache Builder
Drag to aim, let the train fly
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Satellite Cache Builder
Tap to turn, ride the ring
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Simon Says Cache Builder
Watch, then play the melody back
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Snake Cache Builder
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Solitaire Cache Builder
Every deal is solvable
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Spelling Bee Cache Builder
Honeycomb word hunt with a score bar
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Spindle Cache Builder
Turn the tower, keep the ball dropping
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Strands Cache Builder
A themed word hunt
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Stunt Bike Builder
Gas, brake, flip. Beat the clock.
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Switchback Cache Builder
Drag to steer, thread every gap
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T-Rex Run Cache Builder
An arcade runner challenge
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Text Adventure Cache Builder
A pick-a-path story adventure cache
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Three Truths Cache Builder
Three statements are true. One is a lie. Spot it to find the cache.
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Tilt Maze Cache Builder
Tilt the board, roll for home
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Topsy Cache Builder
Tap to flip gravity, run the corridor
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Trail Runner Builder
Jump, slide, dodge, reach the trailhead
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Trash Toss Cache Builder
Flick paper past the fan and sink it
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Triples Cache Builder
A one-step slider where everything is a multiple of three
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Twist Cube Cache Builder
Twist the cube back to its goal
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Twistile Cache Builder
Spin the tiles to unlock the cache
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Two Tone Cache Builder
A two-color Binairo grid puzzle
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Waffle Cache Builder
Swap letters to fix the waffle
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Whack-a-Mole Cache Builder
A timed reaction challenge
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Wherigo Finish Cache Builder
Check a Wherigo completion code on the server
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Whodunit Cache Builder
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Wood Shifter Cache Builder
Shift the grain and clear the way
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Word Ladder Cache Builder
One letter at a time
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Word Search Cache Builder
Find every hidden word to unlock the cache
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Word Wheel Cache Builder
Swipe the wheel, fill the crossword, unlock the cache
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Wordle Cache Builder
The daily five-letter word
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Worldle Cache Builder
A daily guess-the-country game
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Zeroing In Cache Builder
Fire and narrow it down by range
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Play your own cache before you publish it
Settings that look fair in this form can be brutal, or trivial, in the field. Finish the game yourself, start to end, on the kind of device your finders will use, and check that the difficulty, timers, hints, wording, and the final reveal all behave the way you intended. Every cache you create here comes with a play link and an edit link, so you can test it, tune it, and test it again before anyone else sees it.
GeoFriends is a flash mob cache. Get a group of friends to the spot at the same time. You pick the spot, how big the circle around it is, and how many people you want standing in it. Everyone opens your link on their phone and lets the page see their location. When enough people are inside the circle together, the page reveals your final coordinates or a keyword to all of them. Presence is worked out on the server from live GPS, so the answer is never sitting in the page.
Save this link now. Without the key you cannot edit or delete this cache (only the site admin can reset it).
Cache
Shown to players as a link to your cache page.
Only the site admin can see this, in case they need to reach you about your cache. Never shown to players.
The meeting spot
Set the spot everyone has to gather at. Drag the pin, click the map, or type coordinates below. The circle is the area that counts as being there, so pick a spot with clear sky and room for a group to stand.
The group
Two is a pair of cachers, four is a nice small meetup, ten or more needs real planning. Everyone counts only while their phone is inside the circle.
Forever is the friendly choice for a normal cache. Locking again makes every group earn it, which suits an event.
When it is live (optional)
Leave both boxes empty and the cache is always armed. Fill them in for an event, and the group can only unlock it inside that window. Times are your own local times.
Strict mode
Strict mode adds peer codes, so nobody can fake a crowd with one phone in their pocket. It also makes the cache much harder to support. Read what it does before you turn it on.
Strict mode is off. Presence is checked by GPS alone.
Read this before you switch it on
Here is exactly what your finders will do:
- Everyone in the group opens your play link on their own phone and allows location access.
- Once someone is inside the circle, their screen shows a four character code. That code changes every minute or so.
- Each person has to type in a code they read off someone else's phone, not their own.
- Only after that does the page count them as present. When enough people are counted at once, the reveal appears for everyone.
What this costs you
- Every player needs a working phone, with data, with your page open. Someone tagging along without a phone cannot be counted at all.
- A person on their own can never finish this cache. There is nobody to read a code from, so a solo finder is stuck by design.
- Codes rotate, so a code read too slowly is rejected and has to be read again. Under trees or between buildings, GPS drift plus code typing means twice as many things to go wrong.
- You are the tech support. When someone's phone will not show a code, or their location keeps dropping out, they will message you, not us.
If any of that sounds like a bad evening, leave strict mode off. Plain GPS presence is enough for almost every cache, and it is far kinder to your finders.
Advanced presence settings
A phone reporting a fix worse than this is ignored. Lower is stricter, but a bad sky view can leave someone stuck.
How long someone must be continuously present before they count. This is what stops a car driving past from counting.
How long the full group must hold together before the reveal unlocks.
Reveal (shown when the group makes it)
Where can I host images for free?
Paste a direct https:// link to an image. Free image hosts that give a direct link include
ImgBB,
postimages.org, and
Cloudinary.
A geocaching.com image link works too. The link must start with https://.
Keep your cache in play to keep it live. Share the play link so people visit it; unused caches are cleaned up over time.