Master of Mystery #21 Perth, Western Australia Parkwood, Western Australia, Australia
By fairwaydrivers on 11-Jul-14. Waypoint GC58P80

Out and about again, I was really feeling like heading out, not wanting to fight peak hour traffic, so waited a little bit, then caches until it was time to pick up kids. A variety of hides between Canning Vale and Canning River.This cache is find number - 16987.Thanks to fairwaydrivers for the caches I have found.

Over the years, we have made our way through the puzzles for a number of the Master of Mystery series around the world.To date, we have only managed to collect two, but today we add number three into our tally. Having driven across the Nullarbor, we had this one solved and we looking forward to finding it while we are in Western Australia. Heading into Perth today, we took a detour to collect this one. It is well hidden and took a bit of searching before we located the tell-tale tether. All well here with the hide and our name is now in the log. Thanks fairwaydrivers. Domsky

Was over this way so popped in to see if my previous dnf was a fluke. Nonsuch luck. And no bees.

Finally acknowledged that the error must be mine so checked my coords again and found that I had transposed the last 2 digits of the south coords. Of course I was not going to find it in the nice tree at the wrong gz. Pleased to say all is well, log damp but dried out quite well while I returned to the car to get a pen that worked. Thanks for putting this all together. Tftcs

After finally getting a tick on the checker it was devastating to arrive at gz and fail in my attempt (twice) to locate this cache. No bees in sight but there is a fallen tree that just may have housed them ?tftc anyway.

Puzzle caches are not my favorite of caches at any time but I decided to look at this one and have a go at solving the puzzles to find this hide before I travelled west. Took a lot of help to solve all the puzzles and I was grateful for the easier puzzles in the set. Thanks for CO for help along the way. The bees worried me at GZ but then worked out it was not close to them, so could hunt in peace. I was happy container it was within my reach, particularly after all the work it took to get to GZ. Many thanks for the MoM (have worked on several now, which is challenging to say the least) and placing the cache. A favorite for the MoM and that it is in Oz so obtainable to log the final prize.

After my recent mix up with the final coords for this cache, I updated the cache page with the actual coordinates, noting quite a distance from where I thought it was. Hmm...

Back in WA for a couple of days work, I had a list of caches to have a crack at this afternoon, this one being a must after all the work to get the final location. I arrived at GZ and wandered in, watching the GPS count down and guide me in. A quick scratch around, no cache in hand. A little wider in the search, still nothing and I was starting to glance around at other hiding options.

Thankfully, no need to visit any other areas as I found the cache and added my name to the log. Nice to pick up an unloved cache, but sad at the same time that this does not get regular visitors.

Thanks for A tough puzzle to work through.

Cheers fariwaydrivers.

A quick look back through my notes and I have final coords that the checker agrees with. Note to self, when working on multiple puzzles, perhaps focus a little more when transcribing the coords onto the cache page - and don't mix two puzzle coordinates up.

I started chipping away at this one waaay back in 2016 and got a set of coords that looked good. Clearly something happened between then and now as while the location I have would well house a cache, it does not satisfy the checker. Back to the virtual drawing board for a look at what went wrong, and where. [?]

Suffice to say I did not find the cache where I was looking.

Cache has been replaced and is ready to go. Take care there are bees nearby but not where the cache is

Previously logged under team account BoogieRogue. Re-logging with my individual account. #Find#: 3602#

Found on: 28 June 2021 22:18

Buddies: none

Muggles: none

Weather: dark

Cache condition: good



---

This had been a journey in the making for so long. I have found 3 MoM caches so far with Singapore, Taiwan, and Budapest. This was the fourth one and the puzzles were no less daunting then the previous ones.

Great skills are acquired while solving them.

Unfortunately when we were searching for the hide at GZ just before the lockdown, we could only locate the remains of the original cache. Tried to enlarge the search area to include an the surrounding trees as well, but alas still came up empty handed.

CO kindly confirmed, and let us log with his permission.

Great puzzles FP worthy for sure.



**TFTC for the Micro Mystery Cache fairwaydrivers TNLNSL**

Discover my trackables: 654EMY, GSVG86, TAKM0W, GM5KY0

#Find#: 3602#
Found on: 28 June 2021 22:18
Buddies: none
Muggles: none
Weather: dark
Cache condition: good

---
This had been a journey in the making for so long. I have found 3 MoM caches so far with Singapore, Taiwan, and Budapest. This was the fourth one and the puzzles were no less daunting then the previous ones.
Great skills are acquired while solving them.
Unfortunately when we were searching for the hide at GZ just before the lockdown, we could only locate the remains of the original cache. Tried to enlarge the search area to include an the surrounding trees as well, but alas still came up empty handed.
CO kindly confirmed, and let us log with his permission.
Great puzzles FP worthy for sure.

**TFTC for the Micro Mystery Cache fairwaydrivers TNLNSL**
Discover my trackables: 654EMY, GSVG86, TAKM0W, GM5KY0

Wow, this was a great journey around the world in twenty mystery caches. Hopefully, I will be able to visit the cache some day in future. But for now, as long my memories about the puzzles are still fresh, I'd like to post this "Write note".

#01 At first glance, it looked rather chaotic, but after some adjustments it was a quick and easy start.
#02 It did not take too long, and I was able to find the property, all the data had in common.
#03 I wrote a "generate and test" program for that, as my analytic skills for mathematical problems are not the best.
#04 No! It! Was! Not! Fun! Such a nerdy puzzle. The first step was ok. The second step is not so easy to guess for a non native speaker, and finally for the last step I needed help.
#05 A great idea for a literature cache, but I also needed some help here.
#06 A very colorful puzzle. Straight forward to solve.
#07 This "?" was not too hard to figure out.
#08 This was plain Primary School maths and solved quickly.
#09 Easy puzzle. The hardest part was finding the image
#10 Easy to guess, what it was, but it took some time to look it up.
#11 A very interesting topic, and I enjoyed these lessons in history. In the end my thoughts were way too complicated. Finally, with a much easier approach it worked.
#12 Another great historical listing. I learned alot about the topic while searching the web.
#13 Luckily, this puzzle was already solved for another MoM, and it took me some time then.
#14 I had a similar mystery in Vienna last year, so I knew some places, where to look for the variables.
#15 This must be a great toy manufacturer, that I never had heard of before.
#16 Very hard. I think, I would have been puzzeling on for years without help.
#17 You need to know some twists here. The rest is easy.
#18 A great puzzle, with just enough hints in the listings.
#19 A very specific topic hearing about for the first time.
#20 Such a nice idea and a great cache to get the final geochecker "green".

Thank you "fairwaydrivers" for this great "Mystery #21 Perth, Western Australia".

I C Nothing and I have taken many months and learnt a lot of new puzzle techniques completing this series. I saw the cache lying on the ground.and disregarded it as the container was different from the one in the pictures. I C Nothing picked it up and took a look inside and sure enough, it was the cache. A fave from us for the construction and maintenance of the puzzles.

Kapelula set this challenge for us this year to complete this master of mystery it took us some time and learnt many new techniques. Needed a few hints on the way but the CO’s we contacted were helpful. Glad the majority we were able to solve between us. Today we came to collect our find. Cache laying on the ground hopefully we have replaced as intended. Thanks for the great challenge we thoroughly enjoyed it.

Watawieh from Norfolk Island South Pacific.

When I first started caching there were only 6 caches on Norfolk Island . While there are now 57 caches on the Island (most but not all are mine), my nearest unfound cache is now over 700km away. What to do?
I moved onto solving puzzles. Easy ones at first, but soon I was cracking some ingenious ones.

Then one day, PageNZ, visited Norfolk Island and introduced me to the Master of Mystery series. Together, her & I have worked together to solve many MoM puzzle caches.

I have trying to think of a good excuse to visi Perth so I could find & log this cache for the past 2 years. Then last month Mrs e3 said she wanted to visit Perth for a school friends 60th birthday. My good friend olthomas very kindly drove me around Perth from cache to cache including out to this cache.

This is my third MoM find. Earlier this year I logged finds on Singapore & Praha. And as a bonus I have lfound puzzle #17 in Sydney.

And for placing a MoM in Australia and the great brain workout solving the 20 puzzles this cache is most deserving of a Favourite Point.

Almost 7000 km from Darwin to Perth the welcome stops used to search for caches.
We saw many beautiful places, learned a lot from the earth caches, solved mysteries [:i] and signed logsheets.

Thanks to all owners for hiding!

The one and onely YES!! Master of Mystery in Perth... Danke vielmal!
Grüessli Fortunei

Took advantage of a free day and B12 being away I managed to swing by and collect a list of Geocaches only left on my to do list TFTH TFTC

This was the 20th MoM that we could log (there are quite a number of others waiting for a physical log but we will probably not make it to all locations).
Solving the individual puzzles was entertaining and challenging -- we just did not like "Finding Nemo" all that much ...
The hide was quickly detected and the logsheet is in good condition.
TFTC and greetings from Switzerland.

Sorry for delay to log but I didn't forget it . Signed the log as EV , Thanks for the puzzle, cache and hunt.

Solved this MoM while working with the 4.Fishies and colincorgi on the MoMoM in Hong Kong, so when I knew I was coming down to Perth, I checked out the location, and was slightly alarmed to find it way out in the suburbs... this will be challenge to get to, unfortunately.

Made a special detour all the way across Perth to find this cache after visiting the Pinnacles Desert and Yanchep, when my dad cum driver asked if there were any caches I would like to pick up by car. I set the GPS to the GZ, and we made the extra 20 minute drive out here to get this cache. It was dark at the GZ, and I was worried about all the sorts of things that may be lurking in the darkness - bees, spiders, snakes etc, but with my trusty torch, I bravely made the walk in and searched for the cache. I was fortunate that this proved to be a straightforward find, though the logsheet was damp and not easy to put my name on. Walked back to car after that, put some petrol in the tank, and headed back to the apartment for some rest. TFT?, it was a fun little adventure going through all the puzzles in the series.

Had a morning out with mister ooh yeh to cleanup a few puzzles that he has solved. He showed me a couple of others as we drive through the burbs.

Good morning out and thanks to the COs for their caches.

Fav point for this one. This master of mystery thing is serious business. Don’t quite understand it, but good for the puzzlers

Mr OOH YEH went out with Barnzy12 for a morning of caching to pick up a few multis and some puzzle caches he had solved. A good morning was had with all caches found TFTC fairwaydrivers

Thanks to the MoM series we get more and more ideas for new and interesting places to visit around the world. We can't wait to visit Perth now we have solved this one - another city on our bucket list.
TFTC!

Another Master of Mystery.
Since we ourselves are the proud owner of a MoM in Getmany Cologne #46, it was also a task to complete this MoM. And what luck. By chance, we have a shared cache in our MoM.
But that just made it only a little easier.
The world trip to the various riddles, guesswork and thus encryption was also great in this MoM.
That was a lot of fun and much more work to solve them all.

And it is always a great moment getting a green checker at the end.

And since I'm in Australia and zraveling around, this MoM of course made it to the ToDo list.

Thanks for this MoM. Of course with bow and favorite point.

Would be pleased to welcome you in Cologne.

But first of all many thanks for the effort to work out and maintain a MoM.

The cache went missing but has now been replaced. Remember NOT the tree with the bees, but close.

Wow, what an adventure this puzzle series has taken me on! I have thoroughly enjoyed the last few months I spent working my way through these puzzles. I learnt so much along the way Although I needed help with a few of the puzzles, I am very happy with my efforts on the others, which I managed to crack by doing research and simply forcing myself to think outside the box a bit more! Even though I may have driven my atCat a little crazy with my obsessive talking about some of the trickier puzzles....
Unfortunately, when we finally arrived at GZ, all we found was a crushed container and no log. A couple of messages and a photo to the CO confirmed this was the cache, which I believe they have now replaced. They have kindly allowed us to log the find.
Thank you fairwaydrivers for the fun puzzles and adventure. I'm looking forward to solving more of the MoM series' around the world!

Logged together with Swerik, GeoSpirou and GPS-Wickie.
Thanks for the cache.

Today we had two objectives. First to do some shopping in Fremantle and secondly to log the Master of Mystery Perth which I had solved long time ago. On our way of exploration we also were able to find a couple of additional caches.

When we arrived in the area we found a parking spot nearby and I was expecting a quick log. Unfortunately it turned out to be more difficult than anticipated. We found the tree with the bees and so were should that we are very close to the cache. I told the gang that I would not leave without having logged the cache knowing that we would most probably have no second chance. So we decided to contact the CO and at the same time asked Mikaching and Swerik to have a closer look. It was Mikaching who finally was able to spot it. For him it was just eye level. A minute after we received a call from the CO and I was happy to report our success.

Thanks to fairwaydrivers for working out the MoM, for placing the cache and being responsive quickly .

GPS-Wickie was excited already this morning, because he knew that we today would go to Fremantle and on our way back to visit the MoM Perth.
On our way we also stopped by for some boxes which were not that far from or route.

Thanks to all COs for placing and maintaining the caches.

Found and logged together with Swerik, Mikaching and GPS-Wickie.

Logged together with Mikaching, GeoSpirou and GPS-Wickie.
Thanks for the cache.

We went to check on the cache today. The bees are in a near by tree. If you are looking in a tree with bees you are in the wrong tree!!!

During my trip to Australia i stay for 2,5 days in Perth CBD. On a sightseeingtour with bike i made a small tour to this mystery. I solved this in germany. I could searchnot for a long time at the final location because there were a lot of wasps at the near from the Finalkoords. After two stitches i stopped my search and contacted the owner.
Thanks for log release....
Greets from germany....

First Time in Australia.
Gemeinsam mit bomi58 und Starbuckshans den schwer erkämpften MOM of Perth und ein paar Dosen dieser Gegend eingesammelt. Dieser Cache konnte sich nicht lange vor uns verstecken. TFTC

Zusammen mit Rio2013 und Starbuckshans wurde heute der MOM Perth aufgesucht. Ich hatte weniger Anteile beim Rätselpart, dafür aber fen richtigen Blick vor Ort. Insgesamt eine schöne Sache, nun auch mit einem weiteren FP!
TFTC bomi58

Woohoo! We worked really hard on this MOM. It all started around this time last year when we were on Norfolk Island and met the local cacher endeavour3 who had informed us about MOM around the world. We were planning a trip to the USA and saw that there was a MOM in Portland Oregon, which was where we were heading. We completed and found that one and then we planned a trip to Perth so this was our next task! With the help of friends like endeavour3 and neverlostAu we completed this head ache. Today we were delighted to finally put our name in the log book. We did however have problems as we were about to give up we male membsec found the little blighter on the ground. We replaced it up but the CO may need to check on it’s placement! Have attached a photo of it’s placement. The wire has been broken.
TFTC

Working on ALL MoMs in parallel causes some headache, so it took a little bit longer to solve and to log.
But today is the day to finalize this one!

Cheers,
Modestia

What a trip to get this log...

Braindrilling hedaches for my cachebuddies an me, when solving one [?] after the other one and then - after getting the last checkergreen - a long period of waiting [)], to finaly get deep down under !

Thanks for the great cacheseries and this fine #21 [^]. *Greetings from the northern hemisphere...*
#15329

This MoM we could solve in the team and so we had now the unique opportunity to log in the book.
Thanks for the puzzles

For endless months we have been working on MoM-solutions around the world. But sometimes a solution that costs weeks / months is one - but the opportunity to log it, is a completely different one.
Here we had a unique opportunity to get into the logbook.
Thanks for the challenge and the cache

Ulli/hebuff

Thanks for the cache.
Solved as part Master of Mystery #22.

During our trip in Australia we stopped here!

Many thanks fairwaydrivers for placing and maintening this cache.

Greetings from Switzerland

Visiting Australia, we also geocache! This box os one of our discovery.

Many thanks to the owner.

Selected this one for our 10,000th cache. So happy it was easy to find after the hours solving puzzles. So that makes the Northern Hemipshere and Southern Hemisphere MOM finds - does that make is the World Masters? T4tc (FP)

After having planed my trip through Australia i got my focus on finishing this one. For riddle 17 which i want to collect on easter, i needed some help. I agree: quite nice but never seen before and afterwards
Riddle 20 my Buddy Tiyon solved since i was blind. Today i rented a bicycle and went on a big six hours tour and fell...hands bloody - fortunately i got immediate help from those who saw it! After this shock i continued a bit limited and finally arrived at gz with the logbook signed shortly after. Combined with three DNFs at traditionel caches i drove back to Perth using the riverside bike paths of Camning and Melville. Had some nice views and finally arrived at Kings Garden.
Thanks a lot for this MoM!

#1 MoM Luxembourg(#17) 9.7.2014
#2 MoM Stockholm(#4) 4.10.2014
#3 MoM Bochum(#11) 12.1.2015
#4 MoM Kopenhagen(#3) 8.3.2015
#5 MoM Dortmund(#19) 7.11.2015
#6 MoM Amsterdam(#14) 3.1.2016
#7 MoM Porto(#2) 25.3.2016
#8 MoM Baden-Baden(#26) 20.5.2016
#9 MoM Marburg(#15) 20.5.2016
#10 MoM Paris(#1) 10.06.2016
#11 MoM Lommel(#29) 24.06.2016
#12 MoM Varel(#12) 19.08.2016
#13 MoM Munich(#9) 19.09.2016
#14 MoM Rösrath(#31) 13.11.2016
#15 MoM Perth(#21) 6.4.2017

#5641
Let the Adventure beginn. Calli87 goes to New Zealand and Australia!!!
Was aus einer Partyidee mal werden würde, hätte ich nie gedacht. Fast ein Jahr Planung und Vorbereitung steckt nun hinter mir, um eine gute Freundin bei ihrem Work and Travel Aufenthalt zu besuchen.
Wir bereisen für einen Monat mit dem Campervan das wunderschöne Neuseeland und wir machen dort Halt wo es uns spontan gefällt. Danach geht es noch für knappe 2 Wochen nach Australien mit Stops in Melbourne, perth und die Goldküste runter nach Sydney.

New Zealand offers just so much nature and so great views, which make the stay so pleasant. We have seen so many great places together that impressed us both.

Route New Zealand: Auckland - Bay of Island - Cape Reinga - Hot Water Beach - Matamata - Rotorua - Tongariro Alpine Crossing - Turangi - Wellington - Picton - Marahau - Westport - Punakaiki - Runanga - Franz Josef Glacier - Fox Glacier - Wanaka - Queenstown - Te Anau - Milford Sound - Lumsden - Invercargill - Bluff - Curio Bay - Nugget Point - Dunedin - Mount Cook - Pukaki -Leeston - Akorua - Christchurch

Route Australia: Melbourne - Perth - Bisbane - Gold Coast - Bayron Bay - Coffs Harbour - Port Macquaire - Port Stevens - Bateau Bay -Sydney

DAY 29
The 4 weeks of New Zealand were so fast. Now it was finally on the Australian continent. First, it was From Christchruch of Melbourne to get the connection to Perth. In the night I had not made it so comfortable, so I decided to make a trip to this Geocache very close to the airport.

This was the most important and at the same time most special geocache on the entire trip. Friends from Germany had made me aware of this series. I had to solve this difficult puzzle until my stay. In time for the start of the trip, I had the final coordinates in my luggage. On the spot it was then a brief undertaking until we could find this spezial Geocache.

Nach dem Signieren des Logbuches habe ich wieder alles ordentlich zusammengepackt und in sein Versteck gelegt.
Vielen Dank sagt Calli87.
T4T$

Liebes Logbuch,

Then I try to tell my story. It was a hard work to solve all this riddles. Many months ago we started to solve all the mysteries of this kind. After all the coordinates were on the table, the most difficult part began. How do we get to the logbooks?

The Australian problem is now no more. Please do not ask how ...

Any way! Thanks for this!

Logbuch Ende

Sonnenmilch

TB log... pling pling.

Our riddle team started in the end of 2015 with solving mysteries around the world. Now we solved all parts of "Master of Mystery". Some of them were easy to solve and other are a heart nut. But together we did it. Now this part of nice Serie is found.

Thanks for the Master of Mystery
greetings from germany
ritters_p

In our riddle crew we managed to solve all 36 Master of Mystery Caches... so it is time to go outside and find some of this boxes.
Some of them were easy to solve and other are a heart nut. But together we did it. Now this part of nice Serie is found.

Thanks for the Master of Mystery
greetings from germany
Team Loewenjaeger

### Found!!! ###
[^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^][^]

We solved all 36 Master of Mystery Caches worldwide and now it is time to find the opprtunities to search, find and log them.

Today there was the great chance to have a walk through Perth and we looked for this cache.

And what should I tell you: We found it.

*TFTC*

**AmorK**

In 2016, we started to solve the "Master of Mystery" caches around the world. At some point the coordinates for the MoM in Perth were on paper. Now the favorable opportunity offered itself and we could found the cache and sign the logbook.

  **  Found Found Found Found Found **
            ** Found Found Found Found **


TFTC.

# MfG *** Revians *** #

Well, as the previous logs have indicated, this is a mammoth task which has taken me a loooong time to complete. I have stumbled my way through these puzzles over the past couple of years and have needed more than a few nudges from those that have preceded me. An epic challenge and I thank you for placing it here and I am very glad to finally have my name in the book on this one. A fave point for sure for all the frustration that this smiley has brought!

Solved these puzzles earlier this month I think, over about 4 nights. I had a couple of 'grey/senior' moments (yes they can happen at aged 50 ) while working on them but will admit I did have someone nudge me in the right direction a few times. I must learn to look at puzzles and not think every one of them belongs in the too hard basket as that's when I get 'grey' (mind you many of these did belong in that too hard basket) but as per usual I struggled on the lower D ratings more than the higher rated ones, go figure

Headed up to Perth today to see muggles parents as didn't see them over Xmas and as I was driving passed the area I remembered about this cache. Well no time to find it as I made it to our destination with four minutes to spare

After a lovely Chinese lunch in Tuart Hill we nipped into Bunnings in Belmont and not just for a hot chocolate either . Free wifi comes in handy so I jumped on my ipad and looked for this puzzle icon on the geomap. Easily found and wrote down the co-ords.
Don't think muggle was impressed we were going to do a stop on the way home but I told him it was just this one

Not much of a detour off our route home and was a little worried but my car easily mounted the kerb so we could park within 30m of cache.

After whacking the co-ords in as a waypoint in my gps it was an easy find by me but naturally muggle did the grab otherwise I'd still be there

TFTC fairwaydrivers Deserves a fav point for actually making me solve some puzzles as I haven't been interested in doing so for many months now


yayyyyyyy that means I have finally found all your puzzle caches, well the 19 you've put out so far
Please make the next ones a little easier so as not to fry my brain cells too much

Well that was a mammoth effort in conjunction with our northern relatives & local caching buddies fratra, now we just have to try & remember all of the new puzzle solving techniques we have learned. It seemed appropriate to wait to find it until we could go with, Fratra & geohubby, under his new caching name. Now celebrating in a lovely restaurant with a glass of wine.....or two. TFTC & amazing series of puzzles.

Months of hard work in collaboration with Clan-Wallace and pommieparkin2 and with some hints and help from friends along the way culminated in the signing of the log and a lovely meal and a couple of bottles of wine shared with friends. A well deserved favourite for the pain you put us through and the lessons you taught us


TFTC fairwaydrivers this is find # 1570 for us

Out caching with Caroline ( Clan-wallace ) TFTC

No input from me whatsoever

Very late logging these
Found with KB July 3
TFTC

Well what an epic adventure this one has been, albeit spent at my desk. When this was first published I thought there was no chance of ever logging a find here.

Been having a go on and off over the last couple of years with it being sent to the too hard basket for extended periods of time. I remember hitting a road block around number 8, that one was a doozie. Had a little help here and there but for the most part I was able to soldier on solo. Learnt so much in the process and sparked a couple of ideas for my first puzzle cache hide.

Over the last couple of weeks I got on a roll and was knocking off the checkers on a regular basis, I started to genuinely think that I might get a smiley here after all. And then on the 2nd anniversary of publication I had myself some coordinates.

Was thinking about leaving the find for a milestone but it was like an annoying itch and I couldn't resist. Parked up today and there was a dog walking muggle loitering nearby, waited her out for a bit then headed towards GZ where I made the quick find.

Thanks for putting these together I will proudly display my "Master of Mystery" logo in my profile. Awarding a favourite not just because it fills a blank in my D/T grid.

fairwaydrivers I found your cache at 5:06pm, this was the 1st of 1 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 3324. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.

SLTFTC

Like some of the others that have logged before me, I needed an ally to log this find; it's a massive undertaking for 1 smiley and I enjoying being outdoors so much more than I prefer to be indoors so I just couldn't justify the time it would have taken to actually solve every mystery solo all for 1 cache find. Thanks to my friend for the help and I hope Hiddo attaches the photo of us celebrating our find during our afternoon cycle. Thanks for setting up this style of cache in Perth fairwaydrivers.

# 8070

woohoo, another MoM solved and logged.

As I have solved already 21 of the Master of Mysteries caches (but still some more to go), it was of course a must for me to solve this as well.

As the others it was hard brain work with some help for some puzzles, but I made it at the end just in time for my son's trip to Perth this year.

Today he found some time to visit the final coords and found it easily. This is my 9th MoM I logged now.

Thanks fairwaydrivers for this challenge and best regards from Germany.
MTKEus


in: fav point, of course

As R0gue says in her log, we couldn't leave this too long for fear of it disappearing and robbing us of a reward for all our puzzling hard work. After such a lot of puzzling brainpower, the cache itself was a nice quick find on a beautiful day, hurray. Thoroughly enjoyed the puzzles, even the hard ones that take up every waking moment until you get them done. And then you have "just a quick look" at the next one. Thank you so much for putting this collection together, fairwaydrivers! A cast-iron bolt-on favourite.

Well that's 4 days we won't get back...

Since first seeing this one on the map it's been occupying quite a bit of my time and possibly affecting my home life somewhat. Three solved on day 1, three on day 2, seven yesterday and seven today. Some brilliant variety in there and some good ideas for future puzzles. Two COs promptly gave hints when asked to do so - and Mrs. O. came up with the lightbulb moment on two by coming at it from her own special (twisted?) angle. The rest were nutted out somehow. Really enjoyed it and now see there is a Portland, Oregon one to do before we go there in two weeks' time...

We passed GZ just 24 hours ago as well! Another trip will be required so that we can claim our Master Of Mystery banner!

Woohoo!! I finally got around to finding this one. I had a great time going through all of these puzzles quite a long time ago, and worked on a few of them together with a couple of other cachers. I've had the final coordinates for such a long time, a few recent archivings of other puzzles inspired me to get out and tick off actually finding more of the puzzles that I have solved.

At GZ I started searching where my GPS led me, and it wasn't until I was deeply involved in the search that I realised there were bees buzzing about my head. A quick retreat wasn't enough, and one went into attack mode and would not let me go. He latched onto my t-shirt and I think only glanced me as I tried to brush him off, then he went again at it, and then landed directly on my skin, then on my pants and on my sock. I tried to move away but he just kept following me - argh!

Eventually I sorted that problem out, and ensured there were no more of his friends to follow, and then looked at some of the other spots nearby, and quickly found the cache. Phew.

Thanks for a great series of puzzles and the final cache fairwaydrivers!

Whoop Whoop! We did it. When hubby came up with this series a couple of weeks back we thought we had bitten off more than we could chew. But the more we puzzled, the more we understood (and the new brilliant puzzle book help a bit along the way too). We had to contact a few people along the way, but mostly because we had made a little mistake and got pointed to the right direction. Proud to say that we managed to get to the bottom of each puzzle by ourselves.
After cracking the last 3 last night, we went for an after work cache run today. The fact the muggle father-in-law spotted the cache first (he had never seen one before), only dampens our spirit slightly.
We loved this series and learned so much along the way. Thanks.

Since we have seen that there is a Master of Mystery Cache in Perth we wanted to be that Master of Mystery. We have been in Perth in 2010 and it was a very nice and enjoyable time. This year it was just a stopover on our way to New Zealand. Sometimes it is necessary to be a bit crazy for the hobby Geocaching. And so it was. We had time pressure to solve the puzzles, but we did it at the end. For 3 of the 20 puzzles we needed a little help or a push in the right direction. Thanks so much to the friendly helpmate. But thats not crazy. Crazy is to have only short time in Perth, let's say 2 hours, to withdraw Australian money at the airport, taking a taxi and make the taxidriver understandig to wait for us at this point were nothing special is because we needed to come back to the airport in time, to hurry up during the seek, the taximeter is running all the time, to find nothing at first, a bit panic, omg all the money, than luckily spotting the right place to log the cache. Phew!

Thank you so much for all the fun we had. [^]

TFTC


# 1715

Wow, what an epic journey this cache has been... When it was first published, I didn't try to hard to solve it but then after talking to Kyzabra about it we joined forces to see if we could make it as Masters of Mystery

We worked our way through most of the puzzles with ease... Of course when I say "with ease", that means that some were dead set easy & others took a little bit more work Then there were a few not so nice ones that had us stumped & scratching our heads!!! A couple of those required some further help & one of those I could have kicked myself for not noticing the so so obvious After finally solving the last of the puzzles, the pressure was on to see if we had collected the clues to see the final result... Luckily we had some success & couldn't wait to get out & find this one [^]

TFTC & the 20 puzzles solved (well 21, if you count the actual smilie ) fairwaydrivers It was a killer, but have enjoyed solving each puzzle! You chose well with the variety & I have learnt a lot along the way... Then there is all the other ideas which I have came up with aswell

When I first saw this published, I thought "what a great idea for a puzzle"

Well that didn't last long

After the first 2 puzzles, I was talking to Jasenjanine, and like the previous finders, we formed an alliance. We both pondered each of the puzzles, some of them were "simple" to me, and Jasenjanine struggled, whilst others were a breeze to JJ, but I still didn't "get" them.

It seems so long ago nOw that we started our joint venture, so many puzzles, (a few of which MAY have found their way into a new puzzle of one)

It's taken til last night to finally solve the last one and give us the final piece of information needed for the final.

All the pieces put together, we now had a set of coords to work with.

Once at GZ today, it was a quick find and my name added to the log.

Thanks for the puzzle (or should I say puzzles) fairwaydrivers. Definitely a lot of work for a single smiley. Wish I could travel to find all the caches we have solved,
A favorite point from me.

When this was first published a few weeks back I at once jumped straight it and quickly got as far as #3, then put it on the too hard pile for a few days.

Was chatting to McFonz via facebook about it and we soon started an alliance to see how far we could get. Several nights over the next week or so were spent solving and sending messages back and forth. Persistence paid off, plus the odd email to a CO and we eventually got through them all. Most were fairly straight forward, and a handful had us guessing for days.

Caught up with McFonz at the event in Sorrento the other week and he let me know of the craft hide.

Though I'd be in for a bit of a hunt when I arrived around 4pm today but I quickly spotted it as I could see the green lid protruding from the camo. Signed the log and adjusted the camo to make it less obvious.

Just like McFonz I thoroughly enjoyed this one even though it meant getting 20 smileys for cache's I'll probably never vist

TFTC & have a fav point for your efforts.

What a great idea for a puzzle cache!!! One which I saw get published and wasn't going to dive on right away when I saw what looked like such a daunting task.

Was asked by someone for any advice I may of had for one of the puzzles which gave me the required prod to get going on this and can say during that week (or so.......Not sure as I lost all track of time and a few other things while working on this) I became obsessed with it.

I did have a few hiccups along the way which was to be expected and couple of times the trees were hidden by the forest. An email to the cache owners soon had me back on track where required. Friendly bunch cachers are.

Think it was about 2am one day last week when I finally had all the info I needed to get the green tick. Was on a roll at the end and was thinking, "Just one more, I'll have a quick look at the next one then go to bed." Next one, ha.

Was in Perth for the weekend to do a few things (including getting this) and after parking up was bouncing between three items. Crickey, it could be in any one of them, and in reading the previous logs a crafty camo waits.

I searched for what seemed an eternity before finally spotting something, which if it hadn't have been for that I would probably still be looking, or sadly, logging a DNF.

Fantastic, yet simple and effective camo fairwaydrivers which I shall give you 'Fore out of Fore' for.

Enjoyed everything about this.

MCFonz

Yay!!!!

Twas me who alerted the CO to the fact that one of the puzzles was no longer viable. She kindly gave me the code for that one so that I could continue on and finally work out the coordinates for that elusive cache. Don't think my brain has had such a workout before, ever.

Was thrilled to find a well camoed cache at the final gz. Thanks for the puzzles and the help fairwaydrivers

PS Please don't do that to us again.

[^] Solved It!
Last Friday i looked for the Master of Mystery - Series, because I heard that a new one in Germany should be published soon. I was very surprised, to see a new one in Australia. And so we started immediately and had a look on this 20 new riddles. We learned a lot of new things. And we had luck, these two "asian" Mysterys, we knew very well. I solved them last year for a friend, he made a trip to the city and also met the owner. Nice guy.
So and now we have coordinates, but don’t know when we will be able to visit the final. Maybe next year.
Congratulation to fairwaydriver for this marvelous cache. I enjoyed the solving very much.
Greeting from Germany.

I have removed the puzzle which was causing problems. It is a bit of a pity because it was probably the most demanding of all the puzzles and I really liked it. I have replaced it with another good one also 5 star which is also very enjoyable. Have fun!!!

(Chwliwr team late log)Had to wait until this afternoon before we could attempt this cache even though Chwiliwr got the tick some days ago. Only had trouble with two of the puzzles and had to ask for help from their cache owners before continuing up the chain.Put a few clues in here but mostly Chwiliwrs work.Thanks fairwaydrivers for the cache.

Had to wait until this afternoon before I could attempt this cache even though I was the first tick some days ago. Only had trouble with two of the puzzles and had to ask for help from their cache owners before continuing up the chain.

Had fun doing them all and got some ideas for new puzzles from them.

Thanks fairwaydrivers for the cache.

FTF @ 7.30am. This would have to go to my second the top of the list for the hardest earned smiley - phew, what a marathon of puzzles just for 1 of those little yellow faces! But an added bonus is that it fills in a blank square on my difficulty terrain grid.
I needed a few nudges on some of them, but the CO was very helpful and prompt with replies. #8 was my nemesis - this took me a couple of days and involved calling in the B Team, but eventually I had them all solved and got the green light for this, the 21st one. I made the third green tick so had been expecting any time that a found log would be dropping into my inbox, so was most happy to see a blank log when the well disguised cache was finally spotted.
Thanks for the wonderful round the world journey and assembling this wide variety of puzzles galore, fairwaydrivers.

Published