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We have many cachenotes in English/Thai but without exception they are muggled with or without cachenotes. If you contact any of the frequent Thailand (farang) cachers they will send to you. Many have have offered to get their gf's to type them as documents and submit to GC, but never have. They really are only available as pictures *.jpg etc but of course are printable. As mentioned in another forum there are NO Thai cachers here, one or two have logged that number of finds, but then disappeared. I doubt because of no Thai script. There's no Thai script on the GPSr menus. Whatever makes caching here unattractive I very much doubt if it for lack of Thai script. Most Thais can read English well i.e. the segment of the population who might have a GPSr, although their spoken English is generally abysmal. I've been here 36 years working with Thais, so know a little about this.

And how will that stop the site from adding the extra br? my pages are simple so i don't need an html editor. is there any other code to enter a carriage return/linefeed? 'cos it won't make the mistakes u r making

Well I have been caching here for 5 years and I say THERE ARE NO THAI CACHERS HERE One or two have found that many caches, in that period then disappear. How about the GPSr's ... Thai script on the buttons ???

[b]"It seems silly to me to try to demonize the puzzle cache hider. My area is also pretty well saturated. I sure don't think poorly of the puzzle creators. This just seems to me to be a strange attitude." [/b] Many years of seeing churlish attitudes in life and on forums, has lead me to one iron clad conclusion "They aren't getting any"

If u use Coffeefree HTML editor you can preview your code..output b4 u copy and paste to your page..works great and free

I load all the info I need into the "description" box on my garmin 60CSx I delete the GC codes column from GSAK so the cache names are shown Do have cachemate on a Palm but rarely use it.

I totally rely on cachers from other countries to try my puzzles. I live in "The Land of the Living Dead"..Pattaya. Gave a talk on Astronomy to the local expat's club..Any Questions ?? "My Sign is Libra..can you tell my fortune ?"

I think it's a GREAT idea, when I'm unable to bushwhack and climb trees and hills and cycle 80km to cache..maybe very soon as I approach 80...I will get some of my girlfriends to do the actual seeking.

If I start a puzzle and then realize I will never solve it, I stop. I do not leave a DNF, nor even a note that I "looked at it for a couple of minutes and gave up". I suspect that most people also do it that way -- so yes, people do try the puzzles, but how would you know? Believe me when I say this: You do NOT want me to type "I'm too stupid to do your weird puzzle" notes on every Mystery Cache I've attemped. Those notes would overload the server In this case, I'm VERY tempted to leave a note, because your puzzle is much harder than a 2-star difficulty. I love word games, typically complete the LA Times and USA Today crosswords every day, and I can't figure out your puzzle. The 2nd clue I attempted "13._School (2 words).. 13D.mp3", is completely baffling, and I know I have plenty of research to do for just that one (artist name, song name, how is this a "school"?). Do not give hints/answers, it's just an example. With only one or two cross-letters, I may fit an obscure answer into your obscure clue, and have the wrong answer. The links I tried work, but if or when they don't, it's not solvable. Thank you for at least having a Geochecker! From what I have seen of US xwords they are generally all synonyms..cryptic puzzles are not a feature of USA, these require a very wide body of knowledge and a tortuous mind..they are the ones that evoke the ahaha ! response. I am not clueing C*T.....domestic animal ? I am not implying people are too dumb, but simply that cryptic puzzles are not part of US culture. The US codebreaking particularly of Japanese "Purple" and "JN25" was outstanding Needless to say I have puzzles using Purple, one entwined with the Chudnovsky brothers 2 billion place solution of pi. Here's one largely based on US stuff http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...23-65194117f835

IF..anyone wants to try the puzzles and the filehosting (fileden) is not so good, I have all the sound files ready to email to potential solvers so if you pm me I will be happy to do so. I welcome anyone asking for help and two cachers from Hungary and Netherlands have solved/are solving now. posting that anyone has a solution is welcomed to encourage the others. For any who find the clues too obscure..no doubt they reflect my age, try "So Much...So Little" x word by gerboa on the Thai page..all the answers are GC related.(UK solver just solved after 9 months..but...).There's also one for children "Baby's First Try" A major problem with constructing xwords which have linked answers so that solving becomes easier as you proceed requires many many hours of work, so I use "CrosswordWeaver" for the simpler constructs. Not limiting to x-words there is "An Acid Test" set to challenge a UK Ph.D in Chemistry..but no takers. And of course the Enigma Morse Code puzzles

Don't sweat the small stuff !

I'll be honest and tell you what I thought when I looked at the cache page. "That's a lot of tedious work for a two star difficulty puzzle." If it were rated 3.5 stars or higher, I might consider doing it. Yes, I know that I should just do the puzzle for the fun of it, but in my experience, those who under-rate the difficulty of their puzzles also tend to put less thought into the puzzle and the cache. How long, seriously, do you think this would take the average geocacher? If the answer is more than an hour, then you should rate it at least 3 stars difficulty. As an avid xword solver (Ximines was the second cardinal of the Inquisition, and the "name' of the long time setter of extremely cryptic puzzles in the Observer (UK), perhaps I may overestimate peoples ability/interest. Like the Provost of Eton who could do the "Times" xword in the time it took to boil an egg, some can some cannot, i.e. find them trivial or impossible. A really cryptic xword has no square numbers and no blocking, and of course no synonyms or anagrams. Incidentally just to blow my trumpet a little I'm the only one in Asia to completely solve http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/challenge.htm#table and 9th in world 90% of our cachers are visitors, and there are so few caches a few pages can be viewed without using pocket queries As for using the time taken as a guide to difficulty, as a "member" of a world wide group of cachers tipping each other off about puzzles, especially Enigma, some take days....so if an hour is a 3...?? how might those be rated. Incidentally one has a view thro' a periscope while ships pass by with hull numbers, while the enigma morse is played..another uses an Aldis Lamp for the message. It's a bit like the terrain stuff, most of the grading must be very abitrary and obviously changes with the seasons. It doesn't really matter though, as most caching is probably done in one's own locale. It's an odd logic to believe that anyone who underrates their puzzle/cache has put little thought/effort into it. I'm not suggesting any changes to the rating system as I don't think it's a big issue at all, here at least. I might mention I'm nearly 80 years old.

I have set a number of puzzles, here in Thailand, especially xwords and sounds, No one tries them, and I wonder sometimes if the file storage I link to is a bit flaky, although it works quite well for me. The ones that were "found" were generally solved by finders going to a traditional cache and getting the GZ's from a list....needs be must when the devil drives... First to Solve All...One week in Singapore, Second to Solve Two Weeks in Singapore http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...00-d0ca563732b1 There is one with a more US flavor, and a plain xword by "gerboa", my doppelganger, based on Geocaching. NB..getting an error message trying to insert named link so above is necessary Also I would like to make the xwords interactive i.e. users can enter directly into the screen..can anyone advise please, if this is possible on GC..apart from the programming. Thanks in anticipation. WOW Not sure how this turned up in GEOCOIN STUFF ???? me I guess, can moderator please move/

Seems that the fewer number of hides a cacher has, the quicker he/she is to complain, and often advise on a better placement. Also the least likely to add a piece of paper where a log is full or wet. Do they all think that owners all live within a few minutes walk? While we accept the responsibility of maintaining our caches. it would be pleasing to think that ALL finders might be supportive rather than just whingeing. Of course there are jusifiable whinges, but not like the Spanish couple in bangkok who complained that no-one understood them. It would help all cachers if they were to read and digest the latest logs, but I guess that's too much to expect. So thanks to the few who do carry out maintenance and offer constructive criticism and ideas.

Tuffest Ever for us in the Far East..and I don't mean Noi Joisey

Back to the essence of the thread, I and others who have correct solution to GCWK7E cannot prove it on geochecker. I have emailed geochecker, since a correct solution is shown as submitted. Which makes me hope that i did not screw up.

mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, I misread your profile cache listings, but I'm learning thro my errors. sorry, and it's comforting that an 8 year did not solve it. I guess there's a few budding Freeman Dysons out there but I think they're not geocaching

A very smart 8 year old we have to say. f(x) = (3^3+8)x + 1/2 pi - cos(e^4) on the hoof as well

Ximenes, I believe that geochecker is working properly on your Torquemada II puzzle, but not on Torquemada. You should double-check. I'm much more likely to use geochecker than I am to look for the Thai caches, so that's the urgent question for me -- is there a problem with geochecker? I have sent them an email and asked if they might reply to the forums, I believe there is/was an issue of not adding the count checker at the right time, a cache owner's error (me) I think

Checked your 2 puzzle caches, I see an 8 year old solved the puzzles (calculus???) which was not on the cache page but at the cache. Smart Lad !! Could you kindly email it to me to try on a few 8 year olds.? I only have one puzzle cache, and you are right, it must be done at the cache. Where did the 8 year old comment come from? So are you asking me to send you the calculus problem from the logs, yes please I'd like to try it. There are 2 puzzles listed for your profile, one about telephones

I had them both figured out very quickly, but did not use the geochecker because once you get it, you get it. Of course I have a cache that requires the completion of a calculus problem. Checked your 2 puzzle caches, I see an 8 year old solved the puzzles (calculus???) which was not on the cache page but at the cache. Smart Lad !! Could you kindly email it to me to try on a few 8 year olds.?

Could be in the first one, would put cache in the sea off Vietnam coast, for second.....now there's an idea!

There might also be a rounding problem with the mismatch between the puzzle (which wants an answer in decimal degrees format DD.DDDDD) and the geochecker program (which only takes DD MM.MMM). I wonder if that's causing some of those 'wrong' answers? Double-hmmmmmmmm. Geochecker is able to make allowances, the owner can opt for a "fuzzy" solution within acceptable limits

A lone puzzle setter here, I need to know how easy/diffiicult they are, I realise there are many levels of abiliity.I am very ready to give hints. The cache pages give blatant hints. The solutons are linkrd to that great geochecker site, so I will know about tries/solutions. For those interested check out the names waypoints are GCWK7E and GCX4TX sorry don't know how to link them