G-C
E-B
O-H
C->;
A-?
C-A
H-A
I-B
N-J
G-@

I’ll leave the puzzle here and if you solve it, email me!

The next one took a little longer to get the hang of solving. The initial puzzle involved an online matching game where famous partnerships were hidden. The twist was that the pairs switched places after the second image had been clicked – an idea which made solving it very hard indeed. Correctly identifying all 18 pairs revealed initial coordinates. Once there, a QR code was used to reveal the actual final location of the cache. A very good example of a creative hunt.

The next two caches were normal ones which needed no prior knowledge other than their location. The first of these had been placed as a memorial to a cacher who had recently passed away and the location in the meadow was the site of his first cache hide. This are was incredibly muddy but we survived with no major slipping incidents! After this, we moved on to Electro Escargot, a cache placed on an electricity pylon which was disguised as a snail. Not all caches are pieces of tupperware in a field, they come in so many different shapes and sizes.

Our attention then turned to a series of caches which were needed to discover the final location of Numberfit. The idea here was to find 8 separate caches, each of which had a number inside it to help solve the puzzle below.

It was as we began this that our total of 17 caches for the day took a hit. We had completed two of these previously and so didn’t log them as found even though we had to revisit them to regain the required information – the piece of paper with them on had long since disappeared, we had found them way back on the 22nd May 2011 after all! I hadn’t realised that we wouldn’t need to log them and not doing so took our day’s target down to 15.

The next disappointment came when trying to find Numberfit #5 which simply wasn’t there. Two other cachers had tried to find it previously and failed, and its last successful log was back in October 2012. We had to give this up and assume it was missing. This left us in a bit of a pickle as all the numbers were required to solve the puzzle and locate the final cache. In the end, after finding all but this particular part of the cache, we had to leave Numberfit to stay unsolved and unfound. Failing light also meant that three other caches were abandoned in favour of going home for a nice warm drink and a bit of cake!

When we arrived home, we had an email waiting for us. The owner of the Numberfit series had kindly provided us with the missing piece of the puzzle so that we are able to locate the final cache when we are next in the area.

In the end we completed 11 caches, having visited 14 of the planned 17. Not a totally unsuccessful day overall: we have now found 712 caches and lots of hunting fun was had!