Can you sudoku? Oxley, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By EdenDanny on 27-Feb-10. Waypoint GC24C74

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

GeoCrater
Geocaching.com Community Volunteer Reviewer

I've had this one solved for a while now but it sounds like I won't be able to find it.

Good Day,

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

GeoCrater
Geocaching.com Community Volunteer Reviewer

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We came across your cache, EdenDanny, on our geocaching holiday in Canberra.

Sudoku OK. Cache NIL. Too many DNFs and it is very disappointing when one comes all this way with a certain expectation in mind. Twelve months since last find too. Bummer!

Dated 13 March 2018.

Well I thought I could sudoku... Apparently not well enough to work out this level.
I ended up getting a helpful hand from Google who led me to a sudoku puzzle solver.
We obtained coordinates that matched the checksums then set off to find the cache. Unfortunately much like the last two logs we came up with nothing today.

Yes I can suduko but my ability to find a cache at the resulting gz which met the check sum was not up to par.

I certainly can Sudoku, and soon had something matching the checksums . However, no cache was to be found at GZ today. May need a check. Thanks anyway

Sunday 19 March 2017 - an overcast muggy Spring afternoon in the mid 20s for a brisk walk. Found 5 from 5 caches - 2 multis, 1 mystery, and 2 trads including one that was last seen with the brown snake. This cache is 2m from GZ but now on the other side of the fence - container is in good condition BUT requires a log book. Thx p2p. TFTC EdenDanny.

Sunday 19 March 2017 - an overcast muggy Spring afternoon - more to come

See my log - found parts of it scattered on the ground ... and where I put it is probably not exactly where/how it was meant to be ... although (provided whatever muggled it doesn't do it again) it should not be too hard to find if people want to keep coming and looking for it before it is checked/fixed

Ok ... Needed a daily find, also needed a mystery cache this weekend ... was down this end of town visiting friends and was fiddling around online with my iPad on their wifi, and decided to see if there was anything fun to find on my way home ... saw this one on the map (only a few hundred metres down a road I was going past) ... hmmm Sudoku ... Mum does those, says they are not hard ... maybe I can solve this and get the daily and the ? In one hit ... *has a fiddle* oh ... thought one just had to make all the numbers afdd up to ten ... but that doesn't work ... maybe I should have looked at this area on the map a bit sooner, and emailed the photo to Mum and got her to do it? lol ... doubt she will see an email before I am heading home now - I had better ask auntie Google how one does Sudoku, and do it myself ... *searches* ... ooooh "sudoku solver" ... ok - why not? don't mind if I do
Bit fiddly entering the info on my iPad, but it gave me what I needed, and I then got the numbers I needed, did the checksums (all good and looked on the satellite map to see if GZ looked logical - yes ... should be easy enough to duck in and grab in the dark
So ... drove there on my way home, parked quite close, started looking ... found a few possible spots but they were empty ... then found a container - also empty - that looked like it had once been painted black ... hmmm - hope that wasn't the cache ... confirmed that yes - it was the cache - also found the lid nearby - complete with Tankengine e sticker inside - lol ... also fond something (weird plastic thingy) that may have been a swap ... but couldn't find any log book/remains of one ... so I signed a bit of note paper I had and put that in there (along with the plastic whatever it was and a rubber bracelet I had in my bag of stuff to swap) and then wondered where I should put it ... seeing I didnt actually know where it belonged ... Google maps had shown me a place that was right next to where I found the bits I found, but there didn't seem to be anywhere right there to hide it in/under ... but there was somewhere a few feet away that I could tuck it out of sight ... should be ok there for a while, but probably needs checking on and replacing however it was meant to be ...
TFTC - a daily find and the ? I needed all in one ... I will have to actually find out how to do Sudoku one day

Managed to solve this one at home a few weeks back when this trip was in the works.
Just managed to make the find today between showers.

The log is full and the bag has split

Thanks

TFTC - very easy find after solving the puzzle!

Miss Stormcatcher did the solving and it was off to collect, but not before having ice cream ! A quick find even in the dark, thanks EdenDanny for the cache and puzzle!

Quick stop on the way home. TFTC

cheers

We were out on the nearby hill collecting a few smiley faces today. This one has been in our solved basket for some months now so it was lovely to collect it today and also to earn a geocaching souvenir for the find.

Thanks for the puzzle. I seem to recall we needed about 4 goes at it until it looked good.

Domsky

Found after attending the resent puzzle solver event and getting some puzzle solving hints. One of those hints was that there were sudoku solver programs online, and to my eternal shame I'm afraid to admit that I used an online solver to tease this one out.

Cache was a quite find due to the spot on coordinates, TFTC EdenDanny.

#4973 @1540
An afternoon out caching with AngelG27 to celebrate her 1000th find. After finding it (Chinese Counters), we continued on to clean up the other trads on this hill. We finished off with this puzzle cache (AngelG27 had already found it before). An easy find here, but the puzzle wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. I started off ok, then hit a brick wall. Eventually I realised a shortcut, and the rest quickly fell into place. TFTC.

Nice walk for the day with warm weather. Thanks EdenDanny

The sixth find for the day whilst riding around the area. I was glad to finally get off the major parts of Urambi Hills and this one was the last in the area. I had solved the puzzle quite a while ago but hadn't had a chance to find the cache until today. Once I arrived at GZ, the cache was found quickly. Log signed and cache replaced. TFTC EdenDanny!

I quite like sudoku puzzles, so this was one of the first south side puzzles I solved, but it has sat in my solved but unfound list for a while now. After attending Xmas drinks a but further south, I decided this needed collecting on the way home. Quick park and grab - especially since Geoman went off road and parked me right next to it! TFTC EdenDanny!

I solved this one a few weeks ago, but kept forgetting about it when I found myself looking for a daily cache.. Got to gz on a nighttime ride and made the find pretty quickly.. the puzzle took me ages, I'm not very good at sudoku! cheers

I needed the geowife's help on this one. She loves sudoku, whereas I'm not so keen. I had been waiting to get to this one for some time, but finally got to the cache today. TFTC

Great/fun sudoku puzzle completed in my spare time! It was quite a challenging one too. Today we nabbed this one while caching nearby. Thanks EdenDanny!!

I wasn't feeling 100%, so grabbed this as a quick find on my way home. I'd solved it for the coordinates previously, just needed to go to GZ and pick it up.

I guess I CAN sudoku :p tftc

Hoping I could do sudoku before the end of August. Stumped me for a while but got there in the end. TFTC An easy find, on a lovely sunny August afternoon

I solved this one all by myself!!! (I have to say I like Sudoku). Seven working days to go (this morning). Usual boring work. Usual brilliant Canberra winter day (yeah, the ones that usually happen on work days ...) Sunny, nice temperature, no wind - just the thing for a walk and a geocache.

No dramas today - no muggles in sight, no trouble finding the cache. Thanks for the puzzle and the brilliant walk afterwards - I did about a kilometer before I went back to work.

Easy find with geofamily once the code was cracked. Thanks for a fun and adventure.

TFTC

I'm a bit of a Sudoku tragic - my breakfast is not complete unless I finish the Canberra Times puzzle each day. Fascinated how they construct them. All good with this one and did a few other nearby caches whilst in the neighbourhood.

Parked near the corner of Learmonth Drive and Athllon Drive to start a little caching lap around Urambi Hills and the Murrumbidgee River. As a devious cache hider is to an expectant cache finder, so is the synergy between my Sudoku solving wife and geo-me. She does the puzzle, I just walk and find it. TFTC.

TFTC maybe change the colour.

Yes I can suduko night time find with rustling grass :/

Out and about on the South side on a solo mission. After nabbing a FTF nearby, I decided to keep going.

This one is another one of my Solved Unfound" list and it was time to collect.

I do enjoy Sudoku so this one was easily solved.

Cache found easily and logging duties completed.

Thanks for the cache EdenDanny

Our daily rituals include attempting the suduko in the newspaper. Mostly these are quite straightforward but there are some difficult ones. Hence, this puzzle was attractive and it didn't take too long before we had a set of coordinates consistent with the checksums. Today we went to look for the cache and we were able to make a quick find. the cache and it's contents were in good condition. Thanks for the puzzle and cache EdenDanny.

Puzzle took a little while to solve, but managed it in the end. Cache was much easier to find!. Last cache for the day. TFTC.

Nice quick grab at GZ, the puzzle took a little longer but I felt a sense of accomplishment - thanks EdenDanny

Nice to do a straightforward plain sudoku, after all the many variants that have been developed (and also used for cache puzzles). Container was located quickly.

TNLN - Thanks EdenDanny!

This was the cream on our Lake Tuggeranong cake walk, and though it impacted our night-time plans, we're happy as Larry to get this one solved and off our list! In all the confusion we first went to the "parking spot" coordinates, and with baffled exhaustion checked our notes and sure enough - oops - our solution was saved as a waypoint, and being less that 200 metres away we weren't too far off, though we did have to back-track a bit. Binni spotted the cache, but then started our 3rd and greatest challenge to this puzzle - how to get the bloody log out of the container! After about 10 minutes of effort, and a slice to my thumb, we had it in hand - and Binni was quick to put my name first as compensation [B)] We made sure the next geofolk here don't have the same problem we struck, and after a brisk trip to Westfarmers we're now the proud owners of some pointy-nose pliers! We also dropped a StarMac here for the next Geofolk to use or drop somewhere else. Thanks for the cache EdenDanny - you owe me a band-aid

TFTC. Found it with Gumby Maca but was hard to retrieve log paper from the container. We left a StarMac

2013-09-28 0291 After a beautiful Friday it was a gusty day, and I almost got blown over walking to and from the cache from the bus stop. I had hoped to pick up seven puzzles today, but it was so unpleasant out that I decided to head home after this one. Hopefully I'll pick a better day next time. Tks EdenDanny.

GeoWife solved the sudoku a long time ago so it was on our to do list for Canberra. TFTC

We were driving past GZ when hccatcher said she had solved the puzzle for this one and found it last week. She asked if I wanted to grab it because she knew there was no way I could solve it on my own (I'm 9 next week). We pulled up close and hccatcher stayed in the car while I looked around. I found it really easy.

Thank you for the cache EdenDanny

This entry was edited by squiggle30 on Friday, 23 August 2013 at 11:14:04 UTC.

Wow, I did like sudoku until I stumbled across this puzzle! This one had me going for a while trying to complete the puzzle. Thanks for the challenge. I was going to give up but got there in the end. I'm just happy the find was much easier than the puzzle. The container was pretty much in the open and has lost most if the camo paint. I replaced it where it appears it should have been. Keeping the August streak going so I'm happy.

TFTC

One of us is a sudoku whiz. The other is a sudoku dunce. Guess which one found they could solve this sudoku? After the effort solving the puzzle the find was easy thanks to accurate coords.

I solved this one a week or so a go with a bit of help from the big I. Easy find once the puzzle was solved. SL TFTC

6:04:00 PM: (2 of 2) Find#4514
I was out getting some help with a tow-bar ie getting if off so I can replace my bike rack, had to buy a purpose build tow bar spanner (which did the trick) but while I was here grabbed this one as I solved it ages ago..
thanks

I enjoy Sudokus, so had to do this one. TFTC.

Found with Goldenwattle. TFTC.

What a week we have had.. we have been on a caching trip which has taken us to the far south of Victoria, over to South Australia, back via the ACT. resulting in four states today on our way home. Great fun and plenty of laughs along the way. and yep we sudoku as well. SL..TFTC

Yep , we can sudoku, we found the find easier than the puzzle, found with Baja15. During our caching trip. TFTC

This entry was edited by J+J.au on Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 05:18:57 UTC.

Nic easy find after solving puzzle some monhs ago.Thanks ED for a really enjoyable cache.

This entry was edited by wombatatcrows on Monday, 10 December 2012 at 20:28:24 UTC.

I cannot sudoku, but luckily there are several online sites that can, thank goodness.

Quick find this afternoon, narrowly missing a jogging muggle.

Great idea for a cache!

Took mom and dad from RSA on their first cache.

TFTC

Solved this one quite a while ago however put in the "yet to get" pile. Today whilst heading home from a lovely picnic with the family at Lanyon homestead we made a quick stop. It is funny we often take the Geo_hound over this structure and up the hill for walks however never noticed a cache there. It is a great stop for one though.

The log was signed and returned without any problems.

TFTC EdenDanny.

Geoteen worked hard on the puzzle and we made the find this morning after attending the nearby Spring Time Trivia event. TFTC!

It looks like I can!

A quick find after a fun puzzle.

Thanks.

738. Grabbed this one on the way home from indoor cricket at 10:30pm. It took me a while to uncover it with all the weeds, but in the end, all good. TFTC.

Wow - apparently I can! . A quick find @ 1955, once I stopped thrashing about like a demented weed-whacker and actually used my eyes! I'd solved this one quite a while ago (love a good Sudoku) and finding myself in the area for other nefarious purposes decided it was time to pay a visit. As usual I took the hardest route, but was soon rewarded with the find. TNLNSL-TFTC EdenDanny

Knocking off a few puzzle caches today with Mayan Duo. Thanks for the fun and the cache. Signed log: TNGD.

Out grabbing some puzzle caches with TNGD today. Thanks for the fun!

Mayan Duo

I had been planning a big caching afternoon for the leap day but the weather certainly put paid to that. I had solved this puzzle on the weekend and was saving it for a rainy day...well that has to be today doesn't it. A quick dash from the car in the rain and my leap year cache goal completed....BTW I didn't think I would like sudoku. Well now I know!

TFTC EdenDanny.

#237 - this one has been on the cards for a while so on the way home a quick grab.
SL TFTC

This entry was edited by Cochrane Clan on Sunday, 12 February 2012 at 05:27:44 UTC.

The only one I actually manged to find this day. TFTC.

tftc. solving the sudoku was the hard part.

8417 … We sure can! Always up for a challenging Sudoku...

Many thanks EdenDanny for a fun puzzle and cache
Happy New Year and greetings from New Zealand, Cheers YuGeo4

Here for a stay over the Christmas season we did a quick scan of the puzzle caches and it was a pleasure to find one we didn't have to spend days trying to find a start point.
Thanks EdenDanny

Quick find after a good puzzle. Been a while since we had done one of these...we mustn't have lost the touch.
TFTC

I had solved this a while ago but never came out, don't know why as the final GZ was easy to get too! This evening was perfect to get out for an after dinner walk, the weather was still warm and all but one dog walkers had gone home. We watched for her to head off up the hill then grabbed the cache for a quick signing. Debated whether to continue on for a bridge banter but dcided to come back another evening. TFTC and the Sudoku, we really enjoy doing them.

Out for a days caching with Steeba and Hoojar. This was one of a few finds we made today.

Having solved this one we arrived at GZ to find some workmen repairing the powerlines. So we sent our undercover team in to record our find.
Thanks

Found with The Rats and Hoojar on long days run through Canberra.

Yes we could sudoku but the issue at GZ today was not so much that as trying to avoid the electricity works going on very closely nearby. Stealth mode was adopted, log signed and then outta there! TFTC!

Stealth required here to avoid the workmen sitting right at GZ. Thankfully we still managed to get the find!

Cheers

Must be able to sudoku as was able to get the right coordinates. Easy find. Thank you for the puzzle!

I love sudoku so much as always use it by sudoku book all the time... then finally gz as easy to find cache very well thanks

A quick find after a fun puzzle. TFTC

A fairly quick find once we had the coordinates. TFTC.

Very overgrown but not too difficult after a survey of the area. Thank you!

It was a very easy find. Cool hiding spot. Nice area and puzzle (even though I think Dad might have cheated a bit). Found just before it started to pour. TNLN. Thanks.[:o)]

Ok two older men head out of the bush in different directions one meets up with a older female. Really it looked no stranger then the two of us jumping in and out of the bush looking for caches. Still loved an easy to get to cache location.
JABs.

Love these puzzles and had it solved quickly before our trip to the ACT.
Parked just up the road and walked down to GZ. Not sure what the go was but as we headed towards the cache site a elderly guy comes from the trees in the next paddock, climbs the fence and heads up the hill.
We located the cache and as I crouched down completing the formalities when another guy comes from the trees in the same direction, climbs the fence and heads the other way towards the intersection.............

Had us wondering

TFTC

Well I guess I can do Sudoku. Cause solved this a long time ago, just getting there to grab it was the hard bit. Today I was down that way buying shoes fo0r $25 bucks. Pretty cheap for dress shoes.
Anyway after buying them I walked to gz and made a quick easy find TFTC

Solved this one a while ago in a tandem effort with UnicornnikitA but never actually stopped to pick it up. The nearby event helped get us down southside again for the retrieve. TFTC

Solved together with Aussiepuschaks but needed dad to drive down to retrieve it. Finally with the nearby event we were able to pick it up. TFTC

TFTC, nice find and puzzle, found with Hinco and Roostaman

Ended up doing 8 different types of caches, did not plan for this to happen, but enjoyed my expedition to the ACT
Traditional
Multi
Virtual
Puzzle
WhereIGo
Letterbox
Earth
Event

This entry was edited by Hinklenator on Sunday, 10 October 2010 at 21:17:09.

We had an early start to make it to the ACT 10-10-10 event with Hinklenator & HINCO.
After the event it was time to go for a few caches, and this was the nearest solved puzzle.
We had no trouble with the co-ords and managed to find the cache after a short search.
This was a bonus as it was the 4th of 7 different types of caches found today, a rare feat for us in the bush.
TFTC,
Roostaman

TFTC WE solved the puzzle and got a quick find, This was my First Puzzle, done with Hinklenator and Roostaman on the day we visited ACT 10.10.10. thanks for the hide.

#473

easy find with Zoratz. Had this one solved for ages, and even though it almost a driveby AND sorta in my neighbourhood, just hadn't got around to collecting. Decided to "walk the mountain" wiht zoratz today so started with this one

TFTC

Reperio at 1620. One of the many puzzles I worked out a little while ago, and today I found myself down south along with Darwinian, so we stopped by here to make the find.

Gratias.

#622 - Pa Merekat worked out the co-ordinates for this not long after it was prublished, but we haven't been caching in this area for a while. We were lucky it was such an easy find as the GPSr ran out of power as we drove up . Last of 6 for today. TNLNSL TFTC and the puzzle.
Well done on creating a puzzle that has had so many finds.

Had solved this one a little while ago so was on an evening outing with the faithful hound cleaning up a few close-to-homers. The hardest thing about caching at night is not finding the cache - it's signing the log!

#478: I had solved this puzzle a few weeks ago as part of my ~3 monthly cycle of trying to solve unfound puzzle caches.

Found with rubai and linFox

Rubai solved the puzzle for us and we found this one after walking around a bit on the hill. Interesting spot for a cache I guess...

Thanks, Jezzza Xtreme

Found along with rubai and JezzzaXtreme today.

Rubai had the answers to this one so we headed out along our route today, soon coming up with the cache.

Thanks!

Yup, I'd barely stepped away from the car before McP spotted this one. Didn't mind chilling out for a bit before heading off to the next one though. TFTC.

3228. [font=Comic Sans Ms][green]Coming to the end of FFPs first big caching day (I think she got 19 - not bad with housework and family matters thrown in). Made the find very easily as described by Winglen. I have seen muggles (my parents and their aged friends) miss hides like this, but would think a slight move may help provide longevity for this one. I had parked within 8m of the cache and we went to the car to log to be less obvious. Then we had to out wait the chap with 3 kids that played all over the entrance. Finally they headed off and I replaced the cache hidden as well as I could with that one hand.

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Rated: for Overall Experience

I like puzzles that can be outsourced to school kids as homework [:p] I added this to my list of caches to find because I enjoyed the simplicity of the puzzle after doing so many other tedious ones. I ended up finding this one in the dark on the way home, thankfully there were no muggles about.

Cheers,

R - B

A very quick find. This was very obvious, and the owner might want to rejig the hide if you want this to last. We found it barely covered up in material that made it stand out. Thanks EdenDanny.