No, no, no...it's really hard when you live in a teeny place like poor little Rhode Island. Small area, lots of dedicated new cache watchers. Really, the casual player doesn't stand a chance.
I got my one and only FTF quite by accident, as a newbie. And then only because four new caches appeared over a Friday night in one small area. There were at least five of us chasing each other around at dawn like Keystone Kops. I managed to get to one of them first, but two people walked up on me as I logged. My FTF prize? Squishy frog.
I pretty much decided that wasn't a variant of the game I much wanted to play.
I didn't mean getting the FTF was easy, I meant checking for new caches in the area is easy. If you live in Rhode Island and see a new cache has been listed, you know it is close.