parmstro

I have written a thriller based round geocaching - it's called Cell-out, and you can find it on lulu.com (where I published it) and on Amazon in normal and e-book. The caches in the book exist and you can solve the puzzles and "follow the trail". Details also available on my puzzle-solving website - parmstro.weebly.com.

Thanks - just wanted to make sure I understood what was going on!

When I edit entries in a bookmark list can I use html? It says it uses a form of UBBcode, which to my limited knowledge is a subset of easy html-like tags. When I try html, it seems to accept "easy" tags like <p> but not more advanced ones?

I have a website with a section on solving puzzle caches - parmstro.weebly.com - over 3000 people have looked at the solving puzzles part so far and I'm told it's helpful!!! It also has links to crypto sites, photograph finding sites, number series etc.

Interesting - thanks for that. What will happen then if I send a friend a cartridge to test prior to uploading it on Wherigo.com? Sounds like it will play exactly the same as me trying it?

When I test cartridges from my PC / userid it shows all the zones including inactive and invisible ones - I am told this is correct. So I want to test my cartridge from a different PC / different userid to see what it would like to someone else. However, I come up as the same userid on my other PC. I tried logging in to Wherigo with my second Groundspeak id, downloading and installing the builder using that, but it still thinks I am parmstro? I am not looking to crack other peoples' cartridges or cheat in any way, just want to use my alternative valid userid for testing.

Many thanks - I had wondered if that was it - will test on a different userid.

Have tried setting zones to inactive and invisible, but they still show in the emulator (light grey rather than purple). I want people to be able to run the emulator (in case they don't have a Wherigo device), but I don't want them to see all the zones. How do I stop zones being visible in the emulator?

Just getting into this whole thing and have come across same question in my head - I think allowing play in the emulator gets more people interested and lets those without the kit to join in. Also, whilst writing a cartridge seems relatively easy (!!); making sure you have all the bits coded and working is much more daunting and seeing other peoples' work is truly helpful.

There seems to be a generic problem with links in cache pages, hints and logs, which several of us here in the land across the pond have been suffering. To quote fellow cacher tjapukai, who sets more puzzles / uses more links than most: ................................................................................................................................... <p align="center"><a rel="nofollow" href= "http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/janepowell/q/bouncing4.html"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="7">Click Here</font></b></a></p> works and produces a large centred Comic sans "Click Here" which redirects to the page shown whereas "To find the cache you need to open the following password protected file: http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/aphome/xmarks/mystery3.htm" does not work. Obviously the new pages are no longer able to interpret this kind of thing and now produces a clickable "visit link" which returns to the page itself. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' I can confirm that I am getting exactly the same, with IE and Mozilla. Easy to cure in cache pages, but I also use links in my hints, and I am not sure how to cure those yet other than by spelling out where people should look.

You could try Marjaq and select the marjaq scripts link. I have worked with Jacqui Lyons (the Jacq part of the name) in the past (although that was through the marjaq micro side of the business). My Wednesday night local, Another nice little pub with great atmosphere Many thanks - will do that now - Peter

Many thanks folks, fascinating stuff. I am one of the cachers that Manda has been talking to as I have started a series of caches called Symmetry, where the last five digits of the north and west cordinates are the same - near where I live everything starts N51, W 000, so I decided everyone knew that bit and looked for places where I could get the remaining parts identical - see Symmetry PA1 to 6 and Symmetry BH1. We are currently working on a naming convention, should anyone else want to take up the idea. Would be nice to get a series round the country / the world. Believe it or not, the whole thing was triggered by a book I have just written, which is a thriller based round gecocaching, which I am currently trying to get published - anyone know an agent / publisher? Cheers Peter

PP's remember we are in Eckington land and he publishes late, so sit at your computer from mid evening onwards (solving the multitude of puzzles) and don't go to bed before 1. At the first sign of a cache rush out the door, preferably with the coords and a torch. Did you say you wanted a life? Alternatively do as the main culprit does around here and 'work' an awful lot from home. Hope this helps 1.Find out where the main culprit lives - then submit an evil cache as close to his house as possible - this will be so tempting that it will give you time to go and find some of the other ones round about! 2.Find out when they are away and ask people like me to submit their new ones during that time! Only joking - perhaps!?!?

It is exactly for the range of comments below that I designed my latest series - I love/hate puzzles. You can solve these sitting at home, or you can go to the first one, which contains info on how to solve the next one etc. I hope this way to keep all parties happy and so far the response has been great. The gurus started at the end and worked backwards to prove they could (actually I challenged them to do it that way) and others are working their way round using the info I have given them. . Seems to work, and gives people who hate puzzles a chance to add some caches they would otherwise have ignored.