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Long Ball Derby Builder

Build a 3D home run derby that unlocks your cache reveal.

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Free, just a username and passphrase, no email. Caches you build show up in My Caches so you can reopen and edit them without hunting for the edit link, and watch plays and wins. The same account syncs My Puzzle Texts across devices and manages your short links.

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Do not put sensitive, personal, or inappropriate content in a cache. Anything you create here is public to anyone with the link, and you are responsible for what you publish. Keep a copy of your edit key, it is the only way to change or delete your cache later.

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.

Long Ball Derby Builder

Finders step up to the plate in a 3D ballpark and swing at a mix of fastballs, sliders, curves and changeups. Timing and the height of the swing decide everything: square it up for a moonshot, get under it for a pop up. A round is ten outs plus a golden bonus ball. You pick the goal: a number of home runs, one long blast, or a total distance. The server deals every pitch and replays the finder's swings before it shows the reveal, so the reveal is never in the page. Each cache also keeps its own leaderboard.

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.

Game settings

What a finder must do in a single round of ten outs.

Finders can play as many rounds as they like. Every round deals new pitches and a new wind.

Reveal

Play as a preview

Keep your cache in play to keep it live. Share the play link so people visit it; unused caches are cleaned up over time.

Live preview

My Long Ball Derby cache

Goal: 4 home runs

A still preview of a pitch on its way to the plate, rendered by the same 3D engine finders play.