Mid-Year Mystery Madness Months
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Mid-Year Mystery Madness Months (MMMM) 2025
🎯 Goal
The goal of Mid-Year Mystery Madness Months is to hide, solve, and find mystery geocaches submitted by other geocachers for the game and maximise your points as you do so.
🏆 Scoring System
- Double points for hiding a mystery geocache that meets the MMMM criteria
- Single points for solving and/or finding others’ entries
- You cannot solve your own caches
Points Calculation Formula:
(Terrain × Difficulty) + (Container × Type)
- Type is always 5 (Mystery Cache)
📦 How to Enter a Mystery Geocache
You may enter up to 5 geocaches for the game. Each must meet the following criteria:
- Type: Mystery / Unknown
- GeoChecker must be enabled with final coordinates
- Must include the public tag:
mmmm2025 - Hidden Date: 1st June 2025
- Published Date: 1st June 2025
- Status: Live or in Future Publish mode
- Difficulty: 3.5 or lower
- Terrain: 3.5 or lower
- Container Size: Small, Regular, or Large
- Must be live before 30th June 2025
- May be listed (for future publication) from 15th May to 30th June 2025
When ready, go to the Entry Page, select your geocache, and enter it into the game.
🧩 Making a Solve or Find Claim
To claim a solve or find:
- Visit the Claim Page
- Select the geocache you are claiming
- Choose the claim type: Solve or Find
- When logging a Find, upload a photo of the logbook with your cacher name visible (no spoilers)
- Provide the solved coordinates in the format:
Snn nn.nnn Ennnn nn.nnn - Click Submit
Claim Statuses:
- Approved – Reviewed and accepted by an administrator
- Pending – Awaiting review
- Contact – Administrator will reach out to you
🪜 The Ladder & Strategy
Your position on the Leaderboard (Ladder) is based on:
- Points
- Number of Hides, Finds, and Solves
The higher your stats, the higher your ranking. Prizes are awarded to:
- 1st to 10th place
- Every 5th position thereafter until prizes are exhausted
> Example: Some days position 90 may be the final prize position; other days it might be 50.
📝 Rules & Notes
- Only geocaches listed on Geocaching Australia qualify
- Geocaches must be hidden, found, or solved during the game period
- The game relies on player honesty
- Inaccurate claims may lead to disqualification
- Admin decisions are final
- Rules may be clarified at any time by the administrators
🧠 Difficulty Recommendations
| Difficulty | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | Easy – Solve within a few minutes |
| 1.5 | Easy – Solve within 10–15 minutes |
| 2 | Moderate – Solve within 30 minutes |
| 3 | Challenging – May take up to 1 hour |
| 3.5 | Tough – Mental challenge up to 2 hours |
📦 Geocache Container Size Points
| Size | Points |
|---|---|
| Small | 3 |
| Regular | 4 |
| Large | 5 |
📌 Geocache Type Points
| Type | Points |
|---|---|
| Mystery / Unknown | 5 |
