Here's a pretty good primer about creating puzzle caches. It's from the Geocachers of the Bay Area website.

Oh yes, SWEETJ'S WONDERFUL CACHEORIUM. You do not need to see the movie to solve the puzzle. I don't want to spoil this "WONDERFUL" puzzle for the rest of you, so I will PM Nylimb. GL to all on the puzzle

Florida cacher ePeterso2 loves puzzle caches. Check out his Puzzle Solving 101 series:

• Puzzle Solving 101 – Lesson 1: Strategy
• Puzzle Solving 101 - Lesson 2: Tactics
• Puzzle Solving 101 - Lesson 3: Trivia
• Puzzle Solving 101 - Lesson 4: Wordplay
• Puzzle Solving 101 - Lesson 5: Mathematics
• Puzzle Solving 101 - Lesson 6: Logic Problems
• Puzzle Solving 101 - Lesson 7: Cryptography
• Puzzle Solving 101 - Lesson 8: Steganography
• Puzzle Solving 101 - Lesson 9: Lateral Thinking
• Puzzle Solving 101 - The Final Exam

Of course, now that we all know the tricks to puzzles there is no need for another puzzle cache in Humboldt County.

Curse you, hidegoseek! When I read your post I had to start working on the puzzles, spurred on by the possibility of logging the Puzzle Solving 101 Remote Solver TB . Really, I had no choice at all!

It took me about 12 hours to get the coords of the first 9 caches, and to solve the first 5 puzzles in the Final Exam. But then I hit a wall at the 6'th puzzle. I tried a bunch of different ideas, but none of them worked. From time to time since then I've thought of other possibilities, but they didn't work either. Finally today I thought of one more, and this one happened to be correct! So finally I get to log that TB.

(Hmm, all that work and I don't even get a new icon for it; I must be insane...)

Good job, Nylimb. When you finish making the Powerpoint presentation for the Puzzle 101 solutions let me know and I'll rent the River Lodge for the seminar.

I'm guessing we'll need lots of and snickerdoodles to get through it.

I will make the Snickerdoodles

I like Snickerdoodles.

-eP

Of course everyone of those caches not placed at the co-ords. ( and there are many ) Is a puzzle cache. Sooooooo with that mindset off we go to the land of frustration.

Hiding a cache at the posted coordinates is just soooo five minutes ago.

Does the previous post in this thread remind anyone of a thrown gauntlet. Perhaps it is tongue in cheek, however, it may be an alternate point of view.