Grapes of Cache....GeoCaching on The Mole

[+Mike and Mitya]

Does anyone watch The Mole?

 

They had a game tonight called Grapes of Cache.

 

Wine bottles were hidden in a vineyard and they were given a Garmin eTrex Vista and had to solve puzzles to get coords for the wine bottles.

 

Did anyone else see this?

[+twotfd]

Its hasn't been on yet on the west coast. I've never watched the show before but I will tonight! Thanks for the viewing hint!

[+m.austin]

I watched it - thought it was really a cool puzzle concept. I wonder if any of them knew they were geocaching? And didn't that one guy only give one part of the coordinates at first? If you missed it or want to see it, the show will be posted on the ABC website tomorrow or Wednesday.

[+twotfd]

I've never found swag like that before... Maybe an idea for a cache in the Napa or Sonoma valleys? I'd make the drive for that!

 

~I can hear it already... wouldn't work, need to check id's, etc... a girl can hope.

[+Tequila]

I saw it and thought it was really cool. And I thought I had figured out the Mole when the guy gave out the wrong coordinates (195 vs 095) but then he corrected it. So who knows.

 

But, I see this as a fantastic idea for a Wherigo in a large forest full of trails. You can have a player running around for hours testing wrong answers.

 

Did anyone notice how they blotted out the name of the GPS??

[+lrosell]

Maybe that's a way to get more rednecks like me around here out Geocaching - hide a case of beer in the woods...

Edited July 15, 2008 by lrosell

[+m.austin]

I watched it - thought it was really a cool puzzle concept. I wonder if any of them knew they were geocaching? And didn't that one guy only give one part of the coordinates at first? If you missed it or want to see it, the show will be posted on the ABC website tomorrow or Wednesday.

[+Tequila]

I watched it - thought it was really a cool puzzle concept. I wonder if any of them knew they were geocaching? And didn't that one guy only give one part of the coordinates at first? If you missed it or want to see it, the show will be posted on the ABC website tomorrow or Wednesday.

 

Is there a puzzle here or is this the same post as the one above??

[+Amtraker]

Yeah, I watch The Mole and it was cool to see them doing a Puzzle Geocache with a Garmin eTrex Vista!!

 

Garmin GPSr units were used on the Amazing Race too but they doctored the screen display and coordinates shown were in Los Angeles NOT where the contestants were located so all the screen shots were probably filmed outside at some studio in LA.

 

In this case the REAL coordinates (in Argentina) were used. Contestants had to answer 7 Brain Teasers which each had 4 possible answers/coordinates. Here are the 7 Brain Teasers followed by the 7 correct answers and their corresponding coordinates:

 

Brain Teaser #1

 

From the following list of words

choose the word that does not fit

 

A. Chocolate

B. Wood

C. Ice

D. Cheese

 

Brain Teaser #2

 

Which number should replace the question mark?

 

14 4 9 2

13 7 4 5

11 4 5 3

22 5 9 ?

 

A. 5

B. 3

C. 8

D. 2

 

Brain Teaser #3

 

Some months have 30 days, other have 31 days.

In a single year, how many months have 28 days?

 

A. 1

B. 2

C. 12

D. 6

 

Brain Teaser #4

 

How many ways can you read ABC off the diamond?

.   A
.  ABA
. ABCBA
.  ABA
.   A

 

A. 4

B. 6

C. 12

D. None of the above

Brain Teaser #5

 

Which number should come next in the following sequence?

 

2, 6, 3, 9, 6, 18, 15, 45, 42...

 

A. 39

B. 120

C. 126

D. None of the above

 

Brain Teaser #6

 

Jim is taller than Kevin

and Walter is shorter than Jim

 

A. Walter is taller than Kevin

B. Walter is shorter than Kevin

C. Walter is as tall as Kevin

D. None of the above

 

Brain Teaser #7

 

Every morning at 9:00 AM, my wine cellar receives a delivery

of 22 bottles of wine, all of which are stored in the cellar.

 

Every afternoon at 5:00 PM I remove 12 bottles

from my wine cellar and give them away to friends.

 

No other bottles either enter or leave my wine cellar

except at these two times.

 

On January 1st at 8:00 AM, I had 400 bottles in my wine cellar.

 

On what date in January did my wine cellar

first contain more than 500 bottles of wine?

 

A. January 9

B. January 10

C. January 11

D. January 12

 

 

Answers and Coordinates

 

WP1 B = S 33 01.365 W 68 52.263

WP2 B = S 33 01.384 W 68 52.213

WP3 C = S 33 01.419 W 68 52.134

WP4 C = S 33 01.512 W 68 52.052

WP5 C = S 33 01.405 W 68 52.095

WP6 D = S 33 01.586 W 68 52.227

WP7 A = S 33 01.477 W 68 52.327

 

Amtraker (Mike)

[+the hermit crabs]

Brain Teaser #1

 

From the following list of words

choose the word that does not fit

 

A. Chocolate

B. Wood

C. Ice

D. Cheese

 

I think that "plastic" was also one of the possible choices.

[+Amtraker]

Brain Teaser #1

 

From the following list of words

choose the word that does not fit

 

A. Chocolate

B. Wood

C. Ice

D. Cheese

 

I think that "plastic" was also one of the possible choices.

 

I just re-watched that portion. I transcribed the card wrong. It actually says:

 

From the following list of words

choose the word that does not fit:

 

Ice, Cheese, Chocolate,

Plastic, Wood

 

A. Chocolate

B. Wood

C. Ice

D. Cheese

 

However "plastic" was NOT one of the choices for an answer! Nicole said she thinks it is "plastic" but it obviously is not since it is not one of the 4 (A-D) choices. The coordinate card that Paul was holding also only had 4 (A-D) choices even though the question listed 5 items!