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02/25/2011 at 4:14 am #173158602/25/2011 at 3:02 pm #1943590
What will I do for winter entertainment if this type of event grows?
Oh wait, I have that day off… Never mind…
On third thought, when are you going to have one up north? I have a stack of your puzzles that I’m just starting to try and figure out…
02/25/2011 at 4:53 pm #1943591I like the concept of what I’ve heard MN does. They have a “Puzzle Event” where the puzzle creators and potential solvers all meet and swap ideas. What a great win-win scenario.
02/25/2011 at 4:57 pm #1943592I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone of our Terms of Use posting:
http://wi-geocaching.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=10718
Discussing the topic is fine, let’s just remember that everyone does have a right to their own personal opinion and all should be respectful of those opinions.
As an FYI, the event organizer is no longer frequenting the WGA forums.
02/25/2011 at 5:09 pm #1943593@CodeJunkie wrote:
I like the concept of what I’ve heard MN does. They have a “Puzzle Event” where the puzzle creators and potential solvers all meet and swap ideas. What a great win-win scenario.
Adding a link to the referenced MN event.
National Puzzle Day — A Puzzle Event!02/25/2011 at 5:27 pm #1943594@CodeJunkie wrote:
@CodeJunkie wrote:
I like the concept of what I’ve heard MN does. They have a “Puzzle Event” where the puzzle creators and potential solvers all meet and swap ideas. What a great win-win scenario.
Adding a link to the referenced MN event.
National Puzzle Day — A Puzzle Event!I went up for this and it was a very cool event. I got the chance to meet and hang out with a lot of MN cachers and also came home with a bunch of info on solving puzzles. I truly appreciate that those puzzle owners donated their puzzles.
02/26/2011 at 12:23 am #1943595I would be all for an event like the MN one. There’s some puzzles in GB that I wish the owners would have an event cuz I just don’t have the foggiest idea on how to do them.
Following the signals from space.
02/26/2011 at 3:11 am #1943596Is someone forcing you to go?
02/26/2011 at 5:34 am #1943597@Walkingadventure wrote:
I would be all for an event like the MN one. There’s some puzzles in GB that I wish the owners would have an event cuz I just don’t have the foggiest idea on how to do them.
Now that is an event I would love to attend! I have to go thru the Green Bay area to go anywhere in the state and I have at least 20 puzzles I have been working on and some of them are really a challenge. Just trying to figure out how some of the creators think. I would love to meet the individuals behind them.
03/01/2011 at 2:18 am #1943598I was at the Minnesota, National Puzzle Day — A Puzzle Event GC2HPXH .Thay had 317 people sign the logsheet and gave out a lot of information the cache owners donated.Someday I’ll have time to read it
03/01/2011 at 3:03 am #1943599Taking off my board member hat. All that follows is my own opinion and commentary and not the opinion or position of the WGA board of directors.
I think that the MN puzzle day event where puzzle cache owners can choose what to “donate” to the caching community in terms of hints, big hints, solutions, etc. is a good idea. Especially in areas with high puzzle cache “density”. I think an event like this would help not only the cachers who want to solve and find the puzzles but also help build interest for placing and finding puzzle caches and draw in out-of-area cachers that have probably already logged many of the traditionals in a puzzle-dense area.
This idea is much better than handing out the solutions to someone else’s puzzle caches to others.
I also think events that teach puzzle solving “techniques” and give donated (or archived) examples is another great concept.
I really have no personal stake in this as a cache owner anymore as I have archived or adopted out 99% of my puzzle caches. The other 1% I would gladly donate hints and/or solves if an event like the MN one were held nearby.
I just wish everyone could act like adults and respect each others (known) wishes as a community. The event organizer in this case has proven time and again that will never happen. Such is life, which is calling me back.
P.S. One more comment on puzzle caches in general. I just hope that new cachers in my local community and throughout Wisconsin find out for themselves what caching is for them and that there are some rewards beyond their find count. It’s not always just about finding a geocache. That’s whats so great about this past-time!
03/01/2011 at 3:29 am #1943600Ditto to what Chetto posted. I have and and always will give hints and help to any of my puzzles. And despite popular belief have never charged and /or asked for money help , hints or answers. I have even had a few cachers ask me if it was ok to claim a find on a few of my puzzle cache cecause they were with a couple other friends who had solved the puzzles anf found the cache with them. I asked them did you look at puzzle? Did you look at if for motr than 5 minutes? Did you ask your friends to walk through the puzzle with you? Dis it make some sence? They said yes. I told them to feel free to log it then! All I ask is that you at least try.
03/01/2011 at 11:52 am #1943601The Minnesota event from what I can tell involves puzzle owners and respects their wishes, and it seems to have a LOT of buy in from puzzle owners based on the extensive list of puzzles included in it.
In contrast, in the 50-mile radius of these events here, we have had tremendous acrimony and several puzzle owners archiving their caches. So you can draw your own conclusions based on those facts.
On the Left Side of the Road...03/01/2011 at 6:31 pm #1943602@gotta run wrote:
The Minnesota event from what I can tell involves puzzle owners and respects their wishes, and it seems to have a LOT of buy in from puzzle owners based on the extensive list of puzzles included in it.
In contrast, in the 50-mile radius of these events here, we have had tremendous acrimony and several puzzle owners archiving their caches. So you can draw your own conclusions based on those facts.
If you’ve been around a while, you know where I stand on this issue and also know the toll the last tour of this kind had on many of the area puzzle caches and owners, as referenced above. I am not going to give the event organizer the satisfaction of reading any post by me, save this one, that hints at the deep-seeded resentment I feel for what he and his ilk take away from this worthwhile aspect of the game.
I would only ask that those who consider attending take some time to look into this organizer’s particular mentality and approach with regard to disrespecting puzzle owners wishes, instead providing solves in order to log “?”‘s in the sole effort to clear them off the screen.
Ask around. Read old puzzle forum threads about past “tours” in the valley and get to know the lot you are throwing your hat in with. If you agree with them, so be it and enjoy your tour. If not, seriously consider giving it a miss.
And that is ALL I have to say about the matter. I am content to let the hollow cookie-cutter logs speaks for themselves for those who can’t see beyond the numbers…
03/03/2011 at 2:11 am #1943603If anybody wants a quick solve on my caches just send me your password and ill not only solve it for you but find it, sign it, and log it for you. So you don’t have to go through any of that annoying stuff.
Chair cache on!
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