Dan Q

Tag: geocaching

Dan Q performed maintenance for GC54F7B Oxford Steganography #2 – Selected Text

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Came out to investigate missing lid. Found lid a short distance away – possibly muggled. Cleaned cache contents, checked silica gel still doing its job, replaced lid. Game on!

Dan Q posted a note for GC54F7B Oxford Steganography #2 – Selected Text

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Thanks, Go catch; I’ll try to get out there for some maintenance at or before the weekend. If you’re having difficulty with the overlays, it’s worth checking that your printout is the right size (after talking to some ‘cachers, I’ve discovered that some computers are printing it a tiny bit smaller: users of these computers need to ensure that the “resize to fit page” or similar checkbox is NOT checked, when printing). So long as your name appears in the log when I get there, though, you’re welcome to PM me and I’ll send you the number you’re missing. Thanks!

Dan Q posted a note for GC56KEX The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

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With a difficulty rating of 2/5 I thought this would be a reasonably easy puzzle, but I guess my poor heat-addled brain isn’t up to the task. I thought that perhaps visiting the Bate Collection early this afternoon might help, but it turns out that they only open at 2pm in the afternoon (by which point I had to get back to work), so I’ve not had any luck yet! Some day, perhaps!

But be warned: if you plan to visit the collection, they don’t open until 2pm on weekdays.

Dan Q found GLEWGMCG A bridge. Too far? (Geolympix FTFrenzy-7)

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Paced around for a bit and, I confess, needed the hint before I found this cache. Left the “Signal Football! Tag” travel bug, which just barely fits into the container alongside the log (apologies to anybody who wants to sign the log but NOT take the TB; you’ll probably need to remove the TB before you can get to the log!).

Beautiful location! TFTC.

Cache that REQUIRES two people: should I explain why it requires two people before they set out, or not?

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Hi, Founditt!

Next month, I expect to launch a multicache with a twist: it requires two people to go to two different waypoints at the same time in order to determine the coordinates of the final stage – it’s not physically possible for one person to do it alone (even if they go to one waypoint and then to the other).

I’ll be saying all of this on the cache page, of course. But I’m worried that some people might try to do it alone, and then get frustrated when they realise the reason that it’s not possible to do it alone. I’m considering explaining on the cache page exactly how I’ve made it impossible to do by yourself, but I’d rather not do this if I don’t have to: I think that the cache will be more interesting and exciting if you don’t know why you need two people until you’re in-the-field.

What do you think? If you saw a cache with a description like that in the first paragraph, explaining that you needed you and a friend to simultaneously visit two waypoints (and explicitly stating that there was no way to solve it by yourself), would you believe it? Or would you set out by yourself anyway?

tl;dr: a multicache description says that you need to go to a waypoint and send a friend to a different waypoint, at the same time, but doesn’t tell you why until you get there – do you believe it?

EDIT: Wow; this has gotten popular. Once the cache is in place and people have begun finding it, I’d be happy to make a post here explaining how I did it. In the meantime, if you’re outside of the UK and want a few more teaser details, drop me a PM. If you’re inside the UK, or travel here often, then keep an eye out for the launch of GC591VV – “You Can’t Do It Alone!”.

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Dan Q found GLETFMMY Shabbington Stroll – just Lying around.

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Found without difficulty, because the gods of GPS were shining upon me today and I was directed right to the spot. However… there was no log in there: the entire cache was empty! Muggled, perhaps? Will attach a picture both as proof that I was there and so you can see that I’m not kidding when I claim that this cache is completely empty!

Open geocache.

Dan Q found GLETFKVZ Shabbington Stroll – log it!

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Took me far too long to work out what I was looking for, here. Like “mandles123”, I even stopped and sat down to have a think about it for a bit. But after I walked away for a bit, and then walked back towards the GZ again, by GPSr decided that it knew EXACTLY where to go, and lead me right to the cache. Wonderful spot.

Picked up Signal Football! Tag. Shall find him a new home next week.