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Birdie's Cache Setting Challange


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Well I'm back from my week away "up country" and i've updated the "Official" Leaderboard.. Numbers on some caches have increased slightly (eh? peach)... I think I've added all the BPJCs but please giv eme a shout if I've missed anyone or got your total wrong - anyway, for anyone interested have a peek here

 

Thanks to all the entrants for joining in the fun.

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and the latest updated Leaderboard is here.. sorry there, not here...

 

Nice to see muttoners least found entry has been found - now he must praying its not found again till the end of the year! The local cachers who think they're getting close to finding my entry are threatening not to find it yet.. but to do a mass find on December 31st....

 

*peach* is still holding on to her top two spots - obviously close to the Mega Event location was a good spot.

 

and for those who haven't entered but think they know who's going to win, then why not have a look at the "Predict the winner" thread and win yourself a Geocoin. Link here

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It's time to congratulate robnrsheils for being the second finders of our "BPJC - Seek and Hide".

 

(I'm muttering this through only slightly clenched teeth because their find means that our cache is no longer in the lead group of three for the 'least found' prize. :ph34r: )

 

I guess we'd better go and try and solve the other 'least found' caches now...

 

MrsB :laughing:

We don't go on the forums much and I have been having trouble with reading this particular one - inexperience I guess. Thank you for mentioning us in this way! I have looked at the others but am struggling. Good luck in your quest.

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Yep - shiny new PC sorted out and software loaded... so here in all it's 64 Bit glory is the new leaderboard..

 

Here <---- There

 

Miss Peach holding on to her top two places, The Blorenges creeping past the captain to take 3rd spot.

 

The least found category is more entertaining with four caches currently in the running causing me to frantically check for a "In case of a tie rule"...! So it would make my life a lot easier if you could could all just pop out and find all those least found caches a few times...

 

and if someone (Just the one though) could pop out and find mine it would be much appreciated!

 

The prize winners coins have been ordered and should arrive this week.

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The least found category is more entertaining with four caches currently in the running causing me to frantically check for a "In case of a tie rule"...! So it would make my life a lot easier if you could could all just pop out and find all those least found caches a few times...

 

The answer is obvious. There is only one fair way of doing it. In case of a tie the prize is divided evenly between the winners. So, for example in the case of a four way split and a Geocoin prize, each get a quarter of a geocoin. :unsure::unsure::unsure:

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The least found category is more entertaining with four caches currently in the running causing me to frantically check for a "In case of a tie rule"...! So it would make my life a lot easier if you could could all just pop out and find all those least found caches a few times...

 

The answer is obvious. There is only one fair way of doing it. In case of a tie the prize is divided evenly between the winners. So, for example in the case of a four way split and a Geocoin prize, each get a quarter of a geocoin. :unsure::unsure::unsure:

 

Or you hide the prize in a cache at coordinates equidistant from all tied teams and then make it findable only by using a combination of the techniques used in those tied caches.

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OMG !!

 

this is the first time i have come across this challange in the forums :)

 

im so geolous, i have about 20 of these jars sat in my shed and wish i could have entered

 

I have just sat and read every post and looked at all the all the cache pages,

 

if i had set one up the FTF price would have been 1K of peaches in syrup

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I feel really bad that no-body's found one of mine yet....if only there were some way to give a bigger hint :blink:

 

Hmm... looks like cheating to me! ;)

 

 

I spent far too long on this one in preparation for a visit to the area a few weeks ago

 

How? Well I knocked up a little computer program to write a gpx file containing all the points within 1000m with the correct checksum (about 4000 or so)

 

I then opened the GPX in google earth and looked for places that matched a 4.5 terrain

 

Tried a few in geochecker until it complained so I gave up then

 

We actually drove past along the M4 West -> M5 North earlier today...

 

 

Mark

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I feel really bad that no-body's found one of mine yet....if only there were some way to give a bigger hint :blink:

 

Hmm... looks like cheating to me! ;)

 

 

I spent far too long on this one in preparation for a visit to the area a few weeks ago

 

How? Well I knocked up a little computer program to write a gpx file containing all the points within 1000m with the correct checksum (about 4000 or so)

 

I then opened the GPX in google earth and looked for places that matched a 4.5 terrain

 

Tried a few in geochecker until it complained so I gave up then

 

We actually drove past along the M4 West -> M5 North earlier today...

 

 

Mark

 

4* terrain - Will have one or more of the following: very heavy overgrowth, very steep elevation (requiring use of hands), or more than a 10 mile hike. May require an overnight stay.)

 

Curious to know how you did your search with google earth...

 

It should have had 5*'s, as specialist equipment is required - but I didn't feel it was really a 5* cache.... :laughing::laughing:

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Just when I thought we were safe.... along come Captain Gore-tex and Valliant Knight to knock us off the board. Oh well the competition was great fun and my only regret that I could not solve any more of the puzzles. Congratulations to the winners and a happy 2010 to all

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Just when I thought we were safe.... along come Captain Gore-tex and Valliant Knight to knock us off the board. Oh well the competition was great fun and my only regret that I could not solve any more of the puzzles. Congratulations to the winners and a happy 2010 to all

 

And so close as well.

 

So does this mean the coin is split 3 ways now????

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Just when I thought we were safe.... along come Captain Gore-tex and Valliant Knight to knock us off the board. Oh well the competition was great fun and my only regret that I could not solve any more of the puzzles. Congratulations to the winners and a happy 2010 to all

 

And so close as well.

 

So does this mean the coin is split 3 ways now????

 

Just working out how to cut it up - so you get part of the tracking number....

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Just working out how to cut it up - so you get part of the tracking number....

 

Hmmm... how about a sort of coin timeshare option? Can I have it from June to September please, with maybe a weekend out of season...?

 

Very happy to have won, just waiting for the deluge of requests for hints to start!

 

Thanks for organising this challenge Birdie!

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Just when I thought we were safe.... along come Captain Gore-tex and Valliant Knight to knock us off the board. Oh well the competition was great fun and my only regret that I could not solve any more of the puzzles. Congratulations to the winners and a happy 2010 to all

 

To be honest myself and Hugh Jampton had a good old go at it as well, but we couldn't quite get the coordinates to work in the checker. We cleared the rest of Clevedon anyway!

 

Good fun!

Mark

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