+kiwimonster Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Perhaps, if you solve it and interpret it correctly, it will lead you to a cheap trinket that could be a teaser for things to come... This is similiar to a puzzle type that Games Magazine would call a "Paint by Numbers", but it is different. I'm sure google can lead you to information on how to solve them. While the trinket is not on the street, you don't have to step off of the street to get it. Quote Link to comment
+nmartin Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 It's a corcodile with a bird sitting on it's head...but i don't think that is the interpetation i am looking for. Quote Link to comment
+kiwimonster Posted June 14, 2003 Author Share Posted June 14, 2003 A corcodile? Is that like a champagne bottle with a combination lock? Quote Link to comment
+Team JOYSON Posted June 14, 2003 Share Posted June 14, 2003 Well I've got the answer, but it's too dang late for me to do anything about it now... I'll try to talk Joy into going out & finding it with me in the morning. "And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination." Quote Link to comment
+nmartin Posted June 14, 2003 Share Posted June 14, 2003 Opps corcodile should be crocodile. Thats why engineers made spell checkers...if only i would use one Quote Link to comment
+Team JOYSON Posted June 14, 2003 Share Posted June 14, 2003 RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! The Pyramids are coming... THE PYRAMIDS ARE COMING!!! Kiwimonster is placing another cache!!! Oh the inhumanity... THE INHUMANITY!!! Now that I got that out of my system, we've got the trinket. It's a little pyramid puzzle w/ a note attached. "The Pyramid Caches are Coming by KIWIMONSTER". Sounds like a threat if we've ever heard one. Paint by numbers? It's more like a twisted game of minesweeper... Joy loves that game. I'm glad you explained the whole Corcodile thing nmartin. For a moment there we thought you were talking about some strange pokemon thing. Thanks for the early exercise Kiwimonster. I wasn't sure if "street" actually meant driveway, and was halfway tempted to go knock on the door, but once again it wasn't as hard as I was making it. We'll solve the game & leave it in a new cache shortly. Speaking of new caches.... "And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination." Quote Link to comment
+kiwimonster Posted June 14, 2003 Author Share Posted June 14, 2003 Very good JOYSON. I'm very impressed. The funny thing was that I was up at 2am as well, and saw your note then... I'm sure that knocking on a door would have provided amusment for somebody, which is why I said you didn't need to leave the street. We're working on a series of puzzle caches involving pyramids, and the first one is nearly done. It (the first one) will involve this kind of paint by number puzzle, and it shouldn't be nearly so easy as this little practice one. We really like paint by number puzzles; we've never seen triangular ones before we made them. They should be easier than the square ones, but can be more confusing. Here is the solution to the practice puzzle. The coordinates come from the number of triangles in each cluster; there are a couple of zeros in it, which require some imagination to see. Quote Link to comment
+pdxmarathonman Posted June 14, 2003 Share Posted June 14, 2003 Am I going to have to request that your forum posting privileges be revoked too!? I just about solved it last night before going to bed... but I wasn't willing to stay up until 2:00am (sleepy emoticon) Quote Link to comment
+Team JOYSON Posted June 14, 2003 Share Posted June 14, 2003 well their post said to wait until I had nothing better to do. My best friend just got back from Hawaii yesterday, so we spent most of the evening finding out about his trip & watching Catch Me if You Can (good movie). Anyways, he left just before 2:00 and... I had nothing better to do (except sleep, and this was much more exciting than that)... so here we are... Anyways... we don't have the trinket anymore. It's... "And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination." Quote Link to comment
+Team JOYSON Posted June 14, 2003 Share Posted June 14, 2003 ...here! http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=74642&Nocache=0.7055475 "And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination." [This message was edited by Team JOYSON on June 14, 2003 at 06:30 PM.] Quote Link to comment
Sassquatch Posted June 14, 2003 Share Posted June 14, 2003 Great more puzzel caches. Another cache I will never find. Quote Link to comment
+kiwimonster Posted June 22, 2003 Author Share Posted June 22, 2003 The Pyramid of Menkaure has been submitted. Quote Link to comment
+leatherman Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 What is this and what's in the center of the image? Pepper playing nice! Mokita! Quote Link to comment
+pdxmarathonman Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 Looks like Egypt is near the center Quote Link to comment
+leatherman Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 Congo Pepper playing nice! Mokita! Quote Link to comment
+kiwimonster Posted June 22, 2003 Author Share Posted June 22, 2003 you know, its odd. The first time I fused that, I could see three levels that looked more like a sheep being attacked by birds. When I look again, I see what it is supposed to be. Don't know that I've seen a random dot stereogram that I could fuse two different ways before. Quote Link to comment
+fractal Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 I can totally see the 'sheep being attacked by birds' too! I guess it just depends on how deep you focus... Now my eyes hurt... -fractal Quote Link to comment
+Grandpa Rocks & Grouchy Gramma Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 Looks like a couple of pigs having too good a time with each other. Look for the faces on Europe and the west side of Africa. Sooooooooeeeeeeee! I've gone to look for myself, if I should return before I get back, please keep me here. Quote Link to comment
+pdxmarathonman Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 Thanks a lot Grandpa. Now all I see are procreating farm animals. Did someone swap in a different image? BTW: I know the last digit of the Kiwi puzzle Quote Link to comment
+YankeeRage Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 I knew that when Kiwimonster mentioned he had printed the triangle on a plotter last evening, at he bowling event, that this would be a challenging puzzle. Quote Link to comment
+parkrrrr Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Am I allowed to post in this forum? Anyway, two things: First, the "Paint By Numbers" puzzles in Games Magazine are made by Conceptis, who have samples of some of those and some other similar pencil puzzles on their site. I've been planning my own cache with a paint-by-numbers puzzle, but with the coordinates encoded slightly more directly in the puzzle. Second, every stereogram can be viewed in two ways: wide-eyed and cross-eyed. Most people seem to view them wide-eyed, and I think all of the commercial stereograms out there are designed for wide-eyed viewing, but I've trained myself to be able to view a given stereogram either way. My opinion is that cross-eyed stereograms are cooler, because they appear to protrude from the page rather than to be recessed into it, but they're harder to see for most people. I do see the "sheep being attacked by birds" interpretation, too; as someone else mentioned, that comes from focusing too deeply and fusing every other repeat instead of two adjacent repeats. How easy it is to do that depends on the size and resolution of your monitor and how far you sit from it. The smaller the repeat interval, the more likely you'll skip one. If you find you're doing that, try reducing the resolution of your screen or sitting closer to the monitor. (Similarly, if you have trouble seeing it at all, try sitting further away or increasing your resolution.) Quote Link to comment
+kiwimonster Posted June 26, 2003 Author Share Posted June 26, 2003 quote: Am I allowed to post in this forum? Please do. Just tell the bouncer that you're with the band. The practice puzzle needed to be small, which limited the possibilities. The cache's puzzle, however, is not nearly so small. Who can say how it conveys information? Certainly not anybody yet! If you need a non-local test solver for your puzzle, let me know. I eat these things for breakfast. Quote Link to comment
+bazzle Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 quote:Originally posted by kiwimonster: quote: Am I allowed to post in this forum? Please do. Just tell the bouncer that you're with the band. The practice puzzle needed to be small, which limited the possibilities. The cache's puzzle, however, is not nearly so small. Who can say how it conveys information? Certainly not anybody yet! If you need a non-local test solver for your puzzle, let me know. I eat these things for breakfast. http://www.kiwimonster.net/hept-hole.gif Nope not yet... I am at a point where I am kinda stumped for the next spot to paint. Thought I had it a couple times around 1am this morning, but it was not to be. Thankfully I save many copies as I go along so backing out and hour worth of coloring in the paint program is not too bad My mind not only wanders... Sometimes it leaves completely... **Namaste** Quote Link to comment
+pdxmarathonman Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 quote:I am kinda stumped for the next spot to paint Yeah, me too. Interest level waning... Quote Link to comment
+fractal Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 I've got a few good sized chunks painted... Seeing some things develop... Starts out easy, then get's hard, then I think it's going to get easy again... I hope! -fractal Quote Link to comment
+bazzle Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 I have all of the corners and some start of an actual pic of some kinda. Now if I only had one uncovered painted space to build from... My mind not only wanders... Sometimes it leaves completely... **Namaste** Quote Link to comment
+parkrrrr Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Well, I've got a pretty good picture going here, but I don't think I'll finish it. Too much work to find the coords of a cache I'll never hunt anyway. In my opinion - and I'm not trying to start a war here - there's a fine line between a challenging puzzle and a tedious puzzle, and this one's right on the line. Quote Link to comment
+kiwimonster Posted June 26, 2003 Author Share Posted June 26, 2003 quote:Well, I've got a pretty good picture going here, but I don't think I'll finish it. Too much work to find the coords of a cache I'll never hunt anyway. In my opinion - and I'm not trying to start a war here - there's a fine line between a challenging puzzle and a tedious puzzle, and this one's right on the line. Balance between tedium and challenge is one of the hardest things about puzzle creation. It is learned by practice. I appreciate and welcome feedback because that is how I learn to make better puzzles. I'm also quite happy that it was found today. Twice. So far. Quote Link to comment
+Team JOYSON Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 2 things... 1. Warm Fuzzies... your sig line ROX! 2. We have the coordinates, but we're too tired to go find it tonight. We'll beat you all tomorrow (let us know if you want to join us or something). It's a cache, it's a cache, it's a cache, cache, cache. It's a cache, it's a cache, it's a multi-cache. It's a cache, it's a cache, it's a cache, cache, cache. CACHE! Cache, Cache, Cache! "And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination." Quote Link to comment
+flir~girl Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Hmmmmm. Let's see...the perils of leaving an IM program open.....someone says hi, and says take a look at this puzzle. What happens next? Can we all say the word of the day, "Obsession". Loved the puzzle KiwiMonster.....finished it this morning. And good thing, now maybe I can get some work done at the office. I did think about printing this out on the plotter. But resisted that urge as much as possible. Now I need glasses. Woohoo! Since I can't get up there anytime soon, think I'll just celebrate with some thai takeout for lunch. flir~girl Quote Link to comment
+WISearchers Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 quote:Originally posted by kiwimonster:http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=76130 has been submitted. http://www.kiwimonster.net/hept-hole.gif Ooh ooh, I can see it! it's the earth! We have the GPS, all we need now is the tall ship. Quote Link to comment
+Team JOYSON Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I can see the t-shirts now... "I conquered a Kiwimonster puzzle, and all I got was this lousy spoon!" Well... we didn't get the spoon. We were inches from it, but Fractal snagged it first. We did get a nice geo-patch though (believe it or not, this is the first one of these we've seen). Now it's time to catch up on all that sleep that I missed out on over the past 2 nights. "And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination." Quote Link to comment
+kiwimonster Posted June 28, 2003 Author Share Posted June 28, 2003 On the off chance someone needs a larger printout to work with, I put several 11x17 printouts in this cache. I'll pull them in about a week if they don't go anywhere. Quote Link to comment
+Grandpa Rocks & Grouchy Gramma Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 Stoped by to pick up one today and had a heck of a time trying to get the cover back on the container what with the blackberry vines pulling at me from three different directions. Finally figured out how to do it and got out without much more blood loss. Thankyou kiwepuzzledemonsmakemepullmyhairoutgoblindandcrazymonsters. Gramma was going blind working on that small sheet. I think I know what's going on with you guys, all sweet, nice, friendly, warm and happy on the outside but twisted dark and evil on the inside. You live too close to those power lines! Quick, move, get away, save yourselves (and legions of geocahers going crazy trying to solve your demon puzzles). Ok got that out, I'm ok now I think. Love you guys. I've gone to look for myself, if I should return before I get back, please keep me here. Quote Link to comment
+kiwimonster Posted June 28, 2003 Author Share Posted June 28, 2003 quote: kiwepuzzledemonsmakemepullmyhairoutgoblindandcrazymonsters. Demons? What about someone who races out to be first finder of a cache that hasn't even been approved yet? Here. This is a picture of some of our most treasured items that I keep below my monitor. Quote Link to comment
+fractal Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Team JOYSON: "I conquered a Kiwimonster puzzle, and all I got was this lousy spoon!" The spoon has been transformed... -fractal -=-=-=-=-=-=- N 45? 30.ish W 122? 58.ish Quote Link to comment
+YankeeRage Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 BSD Daemon And the little BSD guy isn't a daemon/deamon ? Jewlery for Geeks Quote Link to comment
+Sparky642 & MiraRen Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 quote:Originally posted by fractal: It has become THE SPANKING SPOON! It shall become a travel bug, and people must take pictures of it spanking other people... LMAO!! When is this **Spanking Spoon** going to make it's debut? I can't find it on the 'Track Travel Bugs' page. ~M Quote Link to comment
+fractal Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Miraren:LMAO!! When is this **Spanking Spoon** going to make it's debut? I can't find it on the 'Track Travel Bugs' page. ~M I should be able to get it going by our next get together -fractal Quote Link to comment
+fractal Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 ** THE SPANKING SPOON ** Honestly.. I'm not sure what was going through my mind... -fractal Quote Link to comment
+Sparky642 & MiraRen Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 quote:Originally posted by fractal:**THE SPANKING SPOON** Honestly.. I'm not sure what was going through my mind... -fractal So, ummm, fractal.... I've ummm... yeah, I've been naughty lately.... lol ~M Quote Link to comment
+fractal Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Miraren: So, ummm, fractal.... I've ummm... yeah, I've been naughty lately.... lol ~M Don't threaten me with a good time! heh -fractal Quote Link to comment
+Team JOYSON Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 This forum went from 0 to naughty in 2.3 posts. Speaking of upcoming events... have you picked a date for August yet Fractal? Most of the weekends are filling up! "And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination." Quote Link to comment
+fractal Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 2.3 posts... Dang.. I'm getting slower! Date in August... Uhm... How about... the 23rd? -fractal Quote Link to comment
+Team JOYSON Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 Wow! You read my mind! Works for us! "And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination." Quote Link to comment
+bazzle Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 quote:Originally posted by fractal:2.3 posts... Dang.. I'm getting slower! Date in August... Uhm... How about... the 23rd? -fractal Nooooo.... not the 23rd... we will not be flying in until that evening... Can't miss the game... My mind not only wanders... Sometimes it leaves completely... **Namaste** Quote Link to comment
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