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BigJim 7 years, 3 months ago.
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Have questions with the GeoArt puzzles… find an error…need help?
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Following the signals from space.
In no particular order:
WGA profile on the geocaching website:
https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=e31bf9cf-4c4e-4d5b-a93e-4038babc494e
Much info comes from the Info Center on the website:
WGA History and the Birth of Geocaching
WGA Timeline
Following the signals from space.
I’m on #23, F. It ask for the number of attended logs minus 71. There are 81 attended logs on the event cache page, with no number on the history page. I didn’t know 10 was a single digit number. I was told to look at hints on each puzzle page, but there’s no hint on this one.
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Puzzle #142 is kind of a mess and cannot be solved as is. There is only A,B,C,D to solve
There ISN’T an E & F.I redid the puzzle and missed updating the check sum. Done!
Following the signals from space.
I’m on #23, F. It ask for the number of attended logs minus 71. There are 81 attended logs on the event cache page, with no number on the history page. I didn’t know 10 was a single digit number. I was told to look at hints on each puzzle page, but there’s no hint on this one.
Fixed yr in History document to equal event page
Following the signals from space.
I’m on #23, F. It ask for the number of attended logs minus 71. There are 81 attended logs on the event cache page, with no number on the history page. I didn’t know 10 was a single digit number. I was told to look at hints on each puzzle page, but there’s no hint on this one.
I see the problem. In one place it was reported 79 attended logs, and in another place it was reported 81 attended logs. It’s off by 2.
Mr. President, could you change the history document to show a total of 81 attended instead of 79, and change the puzzle accordingly.
Will there be a checksum for this one?
Check sum added. We will work on those that are missing them
Following the signals from space.
#140 I believe needs correction. B & C seem correct, asking for the number of letters. “A” however asks for the number of digits (there aren’t any) when instead it should ask for the number of letters. Number of letters works with the checksum; number of digits (which would be 0) does not work.
A=Number of digits in the first WGA Groundspeak Approver/Reviewer account name (+1).B=The number of letters in the abbreviation of the Wisconsin Geocaching Association.
C=The number of letters in 1st WGA reviewers account name (-4)
It looks like either A is wrong or the checksum is wrong.
I’ll just say that my default position is to use ZERO when I can’t find any answer. I’m on #30 right now and there is no mention of anything about the 2016 fall picnic as of right now on the history page other than the fact that it happened. That’s fine because it’s a recent event. This means that my only other option is to look at the event page itself for the answers. Fair enough in my opinion. Question B, there’s no mention on the cache page about an additional $5 option for the bison contest, just the original $2 for one of 50 bison tubes. The only place I can find a number of attended logs is on the event page, that number is 41. G wants me to divide that number by 5. 8.2 is a valid answer?
-The Happy Hodag!
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
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It appears there are quite a few caches without checksums for verification of the coords. Are checksums being added for the pages that don’t have them?
Question B, there’s no mention on the cache page about an additional $5 option for the bison contest, just the original $2 for one of 50 bison tubes. The only place I can find a number of attended logs is on the event page, that number is 41. G wants me to divide that number by 5. 8.2 is a valid answer? -The Happy Hodag!
For “B” there actually isn’t supposed to be any mentioning of an additional $5 option on the event page; that’s simply the number you have to add to the stated price on the event page to calculate the puzzle coordinate. However I’m with you on “G.” There’s 41 attended logs, which isn’t cleanly divisible by 5 into a single digit number. My guess is that there were 40 logs at the time of the puzzle creation, and somebody logged their attendance since then. If that’s the case 40 attended logs divided by 5 would be nice and tidy. For what it’s worth, 55 teams signed the paper log sheet at the event, but only 41 have logged it online so far, so it could change some more. It would be nice if there were a checksum on #30 so we could calculate the questionable variable “G.”
As far as the bison tube thing, I guess they’re asking for the additional number of bison tubes you get for the additional $5 mentioned. As of right now, I have that as 0. For the 41, it’s not evenly divisable by 5. The 55 number mentioned divided by 5 is 11. I would presume that any correct answer is a whole single digit number. That’s why I also have 0 there in either case. I think the best scenario would be to say “The number of attended logs minus X =G”
-The Happy Hodag!
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.
Whoever wrote #42 has a sense of humor and the courtesy to put in a check sum.
-The Happy Hodag!
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.
#43, Clark County was founded in 1853, but organized in 1854. The cache page implies that both events occured in the same year. I’m currently using 1853 unless I find out otherwise.
-The Happy Hodag!
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.
#43, Clark County was founded in 1853, but organized in 1854. The cache page implies that both events occured in the same year. I’m currently using 1853 unless I find out otherwise. -The Happy Hodag!
Whoops, sorry about that. Cache page has been fixed.
Whoever wrote #42 has a sense of humor and the courtesy to put in a check sum. -The Happy Hodag!
Why thank you. 😉
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
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