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I don't even think it's on the list of things to do. Every selection on the right side is a map layer. It's simple to display or not display any combination of map layers. Building an individual layer of check marks for found caches for each premium member is doable...so that's why that's there. Building a complete set of map layers for not-founds for every premium member is not doable...which is why that's not going to happen no matter how many times it's requested. If you can think of a better way to show unfound caches only, Jeremy would probably like to hear it. But with the current design of showing this map, it doesn't seem possible. How about adding a new symbol layer that works just like the check marks? If, instead of the check box, the symbol was a square the same color as the map background, wouldn't that effectively make the found caches disappear?

What would be the purpose of posting a picture of the container?

That's awesome!

Fingers of steel, the man has. Way to go, Mike!

Chuy, you're still da man!

Yep.

I haven't been memorialized yet, but I'm still new.

The smile on the old guy's face?

I've done both. I prefer to find the location first, then build the cache around it. But some of my puzzles forced me to limit the possible locations for the cache, so I had to find a location that met the requirements of the puzzle. The latter is much harder.

Couldn't get much clearer than that. Thanks!

We have a right to geocache! Cool! BTW, my hand is up.

Do waypoints have to be 528 from an existing cache? If so, what happens to your waypoint when another cacher unknowingly places their new cache within 528 feet of your waypoint?

Hey, wait a minute! Do whales really....? Never mind.

This was the Pickover book. Sounded a little more basic than "Applied Cryptography." Maybe someday, if I get really good, I can graduate to the smart-guy book.

Awesome! Is it bad that I'm really looking forward to a misprint or two?

To show how much I trust your book recommendation, I just bought it from Amazon...for 74 cents!

So ...... obviously the poster used his computer keyboard when typing out the post. When a "picture" of drawn symbols is inserted it makes it much harder to de-cipher. Look for the book Cryptorunes, Codes and Secret Writing by Clifford A. Pickover as a good starter book. Once you start looking at ciphers, and solve a few, it starts to get easier as you become exposed to more cipher history and examples. Sputnik 57 .... Yeah we're not giving it away!!!! ImpalaBob Still an apprentice de-cipherer, but working hard at it all the time. The latest I solved was (or seemed to be) scanned-in, hand-drawn symbols. A toughie. I found a helpful hint in a surprising place, or I would have had to ask for help. I love the idea of replacing symbols with letters. I'll have to try that. Thanks as well for the book recommendation.

I have a similar question. I've seen ciphers where the clue is enciphered with symbols instead of letters. How do you search for solutions for that? I've tried searching phrases like "letter b looks like squished monkey face," but have had no luck.

Is that some sort of French-Catholic thing?

You'd probably have to drop the difficulty rating by at least one, though.

Just so there's no confusion: I'm not the author of that lesson, I just found it and thought it was worth sharing.

Black Lagoon, meet Wild Rivers.

Wanna see a nice cloud picture? Wanna see how I made it?

Let us add to the congrats to FisNJack on 600 TeamGrnZoom Nick & Sharon I would like to add my congrats as well. Congrats, FisNJack!!! Ditto!