Cache Match Cache Builder

Build a match-3 geocache. Clear the levels, unlock the reveal.

Free, just a username and passphrase, no email. Caches you build show up in My Caches so you can reopen and edit them without hunting for the edit link, and watch plays and wins. The same account syncs My Puzzle Texts across devices and manages your short links.

My Caches

Play your own cache before you publish it

Settings that look fair in this form can be brutal, or trivial, in the field. Finish the game yourself, start to end, on the kind of device your finders will use, and check that the difficulty, timers, hints, wording, and the final reveal all behave the way you intended. Every cache you create here comes with a play link and an edit link, so you can test it, tune it, and test it again before anyone else sees it.

I will play this game through myself and confirm the settings match what I intended before I share it with finders.

Cache Match is a tile-matching puzzle. Players swap two neighbouring tiles to line up three or more of a kind, and unlike most match-3 games the diagonals count too, which changes how the whole board reads. Each level sets its own objectives, clear a number of one tile, break the crates, walk the cache containers down to the bottom row, and there is a move budget rather than a timer. Clearing your level goal reveals the final coordinates or keyword.

Every level is replayed on the server. The browser records the swaps a player makes, and the server rebuilds the same board and plays those swaps itself before it accepts the level, so a level that was not really solved cannot be claimed. Players are only ever given the board they are standing on, never the levels ahead, and your reveal is not in the page until the server sends it. Running out of moves is not fatal: the player gets a fresh board for that level and the levels they already cleared stay cleared.

Anything you create here is public to anyone with the link, and you are responsible for what you publish. Keep a copy of your edit key, it is the only way to change or delete your cache later.

Your cache

Title

Geocache code (optional)

Shown to players as a link to your cache page.

Your email (optional)

Only the site admin can see this, in case they need to reach you about your cache. Never shown to players.

Hint (optional)

Intro message (optional)

Intro image URL (optional)

Puzzle settings

Levels to clear

How many levels a player must clear before they can claim the reveal. 1 to 10. Each level asks for more than the one before it, and new objective types arrive as they go: level 1 is just clearing one kind of tile, crates join at level 2, cache containers at level 3.

Difficulty

Tile theme

Your choice is what players see first. They can switch to another theme on their own device if they prefer it, which changes nothing about the puzzle. Every theme gives each tile its own shape as well as its own colour, so the board stays readable without relying on colour.

On solve, reveal

Shown only after a player clears your level goal. Reveal either the final coordinates or a keyword, not both.

Coordinates Keyword

Final coordinates

Message (optional)

Image URL (optional)

Where can I host an image for free?

Paste a direct https:// link to an image. Free image hosts that give a direct link include ImgBB, postimages.org, and Cloudinary. A geocaching.com image link works too. The link must start with https://.

I understand this cache is public, contains nothing sensitive or inappropriate, and I am responsible for its content. I also understand that caches which sit unused are removed automatically: one that is never played is deleted six months after it is created, and one with no plays for two years may be deleted.

Keep your cache in play to keep it live. Share the play link so people visit it; unused caches are cleaned up over time.

Live preview

My Cache Match cache

Clear the level goal to reveal the cache.

Levels: 3