TheCacheSeeker
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What's your favorite emoticon in the forums?
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Just looking for the gravitational acceleration constant?
I've done a couple of puzzle caches that were some multi-stage ones. The oldest was "Hard as Pi" (GCC9D) - most of the clues were just doing some simple math (basic trig, and some interesting math problems), but the locations of the caches were still pretty cool. We decided to follow up with Liberal Arts (GC9A69) that included some chemistry, morse code, and triangulation.
The caches were well received in the early days of caching. Hard as Pi was up from Jun 2001 to Aug 2003 and Liberal Arts was around from October 2002 to October 2005. Both had numerous comments from finders that they really enjoyed the caches, but there were indeed few finders (of course there were few finders on ALL caches back then). However today's cachers seem intent upon increasing their find count rather than experiencing the more colorful pursuit. It's much easier to find 100 caches in Walmart/Home Depot/Lowe's parking lots in an afternoon for 100 smiley's than it is to spend an afternoon hunting for a difficult puzzle cache. So people (who are in general lazy) will opt for the 100 caches surrounding your hard puzzle.
But I say - Go For It.
Thanks for the feedback, Markwell. I'm still thinking of a interesting place to hide it. I think I know, but I'm not sure if that'll work.
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Here's the aproximate puzzle without the numbers: A Bulgy Bear stands at the roof of his cave and drops a ball. After X seconds the ball hits the ground. What's the distance of the cave? Add Y to this number to get the last Z digits of the latitute. There are two ropes. One is A long and the other is B long. Which one will help the bear get down. Add C to the number of feet that rope is.
Any feedback is appriciated! thanks!
Also, the letters will all be numbers in the real puzzle
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Do you think if I posted the problem here without the numbers, would it spoil the puzzle?
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Congrats!
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I not sure what you would like to discuss about, but talking about good caches I would recommend Duck, Duck, Goose. It's my favorite cache so far.
Hope this helps
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Actually, I should have clarified. Its very very very easy physics problem. More like intro to physics problem.
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LOL
I was just working on this today. I wanted to put my coins on stands and spent most of the day looking for stands. Went to hobby shops, craft shops etc and found nothing. Eventually, we purchased some Floral Stem Wire from the craft shop (18 gauge) and spent a while creating our own. Here's a photo of what we came up with.
There are some online you can buy but I didn't see the point in spending so much. We spent $1.29 on the wire and were able to make 40 stands.
Edited to add: We only have to sand down the points, as we don't want to scratch the coins. If you do this remember to sand them down! They are sharp. We just used pliers to shape the wire.
Thank you. I did not want to spend so much on coin stands either, the wire stands sound like a good deal.
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just wondering, do a lot of people put geocoins in coin stands?
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I'm thinking of hiding a mystery cache, which one has to solve a simple physics problem and some math problems to solve it.
Any ideas or feedback?
Thanks you.
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Groundspeak Lackeys 2010
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Well, sometimes there's too much workload on the servers, which make it very slow. Then, the Lackeys have to remove a feature or two to help quicken up the site.
Hope this helps.
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I don't now what hamstercaching is, but it sounds like fun.
Hamstercaching is a joke! last year they opened a forum about it only on 4/1!
2009 is two years ago not last year
I don't now what hamstercaching is, but it sounds like fun.
Hamstercaching is a joke! last year they opened a forum about it only on 4/1!
I remember the threads in 2009 but I can't find any from last year and don't recall seeing any at that time.
Of course, hamsters can be pretty sneaky. Maybe I missed something?
Go to the main forums page and scroll all the way to the bottom where it says, "Read-Only Archives".
its only been done in 2009, there are no threads from 2010
please do provide a link if i'm wrong
Sorry, I meant 2009, not 2010.
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One of my winning-the-lottery fantasies is to buy a large parcel of woods somewhere and posting signs that say "GEOCACHING ONLY."
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My record for most caches found in a day is 9. What about yours?
I found 9 today!
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My record for most caches found in a day is 9. What about yours?
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I don't now what hamstercaching is, but it sounds like fun.
Hamstercaching is a joke! last year they opened a forum about it only on 4/1!
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how does someone make a good puzzle cache?
Thanks
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Here's a quote from a Lackey on the feedback site regarding this topic.
The addition of many new major features plus the record traffic levels we're experiencing has caused some serious performance issues for the site. Some features like the personalization of the maps have been disabled temporarily just to allow the site to function. Fixing these and other performance issues is a top priority. -
In my area, there is a local trail filled with caches, some on the trail, some on little side trails. They're owned by different owners with the exception of 2 or 3 in a row owned by the same owner.
I would say it is a power trail but it is a walking trail.
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Yes, a family member had a cache with that name signed on the logbook. Then the trackable was gone after we checked on it. It is very likely he had taken it because he was the person right after the person who left the travel bug. The sad thing is that travel bug only traveled a little bit then it got lost.
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Since I only have one coin: a 2010 Lackeys coin, that's my favorite coin.
I don't collect around any theme.
I wish someone made a cat geocoin which involves a cat near a cache holding a gps.
Thanks for the cointest.
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According to the Geocaching Block Party Cache page
And we have some great news—the Geocaching Block Party will be held on the first International Geocaching Day! International Geocaching Day falls on the third Saturday of August each year. This year, that date is Saturday, August 20.ok - that works!!
Yep!
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