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@thepharmgirl wrote:

@seldom|seen wrote:

Guess I’d like to see a poll first on how many find it irritating vs how many don’t care. I’d prefer not to, but I can be convinced otherwise.

As someone who loves those puzzle caches, I sort of LIKE seeing all the icons on the map. It doesn’t look cluttered to me…. just exciting. Seeing MORE icons makes me MORE likely to go to that area to cache. I definitely cache by map, not by query list. I click on each icon on the map to see each mystery cache page. I know I’ve missed some good ones because the icons were hiding. It’s a little frustrating to find out there are more caches you missed after the fact. For an out-of-town cacher, it’s helpful to see all the cache choices to better plan the day.

I had stacked my own puzzle caches in West Bend, and now regret it for the same reason. That’s just my two cents.

So, are you going to move them apart?

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@seldom|seen wrote:

@marc_54140 wrote:

Do I smell a rat ………?

Only if you took your shirt off ….

OK, I’ll rephrase my comment ……

Can you say sock puppet?

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@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

@marc_54140 wrote:

@gotta run wrote:

@seldom|seen wrote:

That many puzzles placed individualy look pretty daunting as well.

I think all the puzzles spread in the water makes sense. For one thing, it frees up the street part of the map when you’re looking at it (which can also be done by unchecking the ? box). Second, seeing the true density could be helpful.

Well, Alex …. do we move our puzzles to the river?
I’m willing.

Is that the Bogus cords or the physical caches?

Yes.

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@gotta run wrote:

@seldom|seen wrote:

That many puzzles placed individualy look pretty daunting as well.

I think all the puzzles spread in the water makes sense. For one thing, it frees up the street part of the map when you’re looking at it (which can also be done by unchecking the ? box). Second, seeing the true density could be helpful.

Well, Alex …. do we move our puzzles to the river?
I’m willing.

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@kansas64 wrote:

I use Plucker to process the info for my Palm, which if I remember correctly is a free download

Yes, Plucker is free …. but

The difference between them:

Plucker creates ONE file. Delete it, everything is gone. You need to page thru the entire file to find what you want.

Cachemate creates a page for each cache. You can delete individual caches without effecting others. You can create folders for different sets of caches. You can search thru an alpha list for the cache you want. Pretty good for $8.

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Do I smell a rat ………?

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One thing to remember – most cachers in WI seem to have Palms. So if you want info beamed to you for some reason, you will need a Palm also.

Go to IN, and you will need a Pocket PC.

[marc_54140]

Do you have CacheMate on your Palm?

If not, look for it on the internet. It costs $8.

Download to your PC, then hotsync to your Palm.

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If k0rpl would ever get around to buying his own, his has an old one of my you may have for free.

Got that Justin?!

[marc_54140]

Hello, Sara. Welcome to Geocaching.

Going to give up a little more info….?

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The main way of avoiding stack puzzles is to obtain a PQ for the area.

I routinely do PQs for puzzles caches only in several different states.

Now, since I have done enough of the puzzles in WI, my PQ for the state captures all the remaining ones (currently around 480). If someone has not done a lot of puzzles, then more than one PQ would be required for the entire stat (about 900?).

And that is where Puzzle Tours come in handy.

Say you want to hit Milwaukee. Get a PQ centered on that city, look thru them all to see which ones are easy solves, which ones are ‘show up and solve’, etc.

Plot a route, collect a Tour group, and go for them.
Easy way of knocking off 15-30 puzzles in a day.

And remember, the purpose of a Tour is to have fun, enjoy the company of some others, and find the caches.

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@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

I see no problem with it. In fact I have stacked upon others fake coords.

ditto ……….

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@ToyotaRyan wrote:

@zuma wrote:

Just want to echo all the warm welcomes TR. Of course, ya know we like to abbreviate folks names here, so you can be TR.

z

TR works just fine Z

So, I’m going caching with Benny7210 today.

I guess we are a big BM……..?

Wait….adding Astro-D later …. so B A M !

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Boy, someone is really bored!

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What?? Hands free, and only 100!

Well, it’s a start …….

See you at the bar when you hit 1000.

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