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Yep, it didn’t matter that it was sideways! :LOL: Good pic and puzzle.

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First of all, NWT, you must have seen us checking out some of your “unnamed lake” caches last fall that we never got around to finding on our trip to that area. 😉

But like Northwoods Tom, we don’t use all of the premium features available to us, but we do enjoy the freedom to find caches wherever we are whenever we are there. The first year of caching we were not premium, and there was maybe one cache in the area at that time that was, and we got it sometime after we went premium. Currently, none of our caches are premium. We use that at first when we put out new tricky puzzle caches to see what the interest is in them. After a couple of finds, we take that off.

As for not being able to contact cachers to let them know that there is something wrong with their logs or to otherwise instruct or encourage them, I was following a discussion about this in the Groundspeak forums a few months ago. The consensus was that a verifiable email address was needed before intro and/or other users could access more than a few caches. Many folks were making their hides premium because those caches would not be on the intro app, and thus would not be available to intro app users. As far as I know, nothing has been done by the powers that be, so it is up to the cache owners to take steps on their own.

I see no problem with making one’s hides premium. They are the placers’ caches, and they have control over them. They can also leave them open to everyone and take whatever logs come, be they great logs or TFTCs or intro app boilerplate logs. I get weary of C&P and TFTC logs, but those will always come from some cachers whether they are newbies or not, whether they use the intro app or not, or whether our hides are premium or not. Premium hides are also a way to see who has checked on the cache pages recently (though it’s not fool proof) in case there should be any subsequent physical problems with the caches or trackables contained in them. For sensitive hides or ones that COs might have more concerns about, this might be a way to go on those.

As for us, we will most likely keep our hides open to all and hope that some of the problems that plague other areas don’t infect Sandland, although the game and the players keep changing… 😕

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I think the prevailing thought is to keep the final container two miles or less from the given coordinates for both multis and unknowns to keep the mileage pretty close for trackables.

However, there are some older caches with finals that are farther away and some interim waypoints that go almost anywhere but with the finals close to the given cords, as WA just mentioned.

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My scenery puzzles all bear the ftp mark now.

BTW, if anyone ever wants to know where some of these photos were taken, especially if there is a cache involved, let me know. Caching has taken us to some great spots!

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OK… This could take a while… 🙄 Added the ftp to the ones in my flowers folder, and the rest will have to wait until I have more time. Can’t wait to see ftp be one of those “popular” tags! 😆

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@amita17 wrote:

Is there a way to search puzzles by the creator’s name? I have tried putting the name under tags and nothing comes up.

Registered users can “follow” other puzzlers. Not sure if you can just click on a person’s name to get to their page with all their puzzles.

If you don’t want to register, we could all tag our puzzles with our names (or a secret code word if we don’t want non-TS puzzlers to know what we’re doing… 😈 )

FTP for the secret code word? 😉

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:LOL:

I just finished the TL More Snow puzzle… 205+ minutes… :wacko:
Just as glad to get rid of that one as I was to get rid of the real stuff outside.

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Yep, that would be just a bit more than the whole straightedge… 😉

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@Noonan wrote:

What bird was blocking the road for me? Guinea fowl is what comes to mind to me.

Same here.

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I did NOT say you could count my puzzles as T5s for geocaching! It was an analogy that indicated that they might require special equipment to accomplish… and that not everyone has to do every puzzle or every cache.

Gee whillikers, Hack! 🙄 😉

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My monitor is the same size, Hack. The vertical puzzles have smaller pieces to fit them into the horizontal screen. You can toggle in and out to full screen (bottom right corner of puzzle display), but I don’t.

You can always work the puzzle with the number of pieces you want, but your time doesn’t show up on the page. (Yeah, your 6-piece attempt will beat my 300-peice attempt.) Try a horizontal one first.

Consider some of these T5s. It’s my way of getting back at the caching community! 😈 😆 😉

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:yes:

The TOT is always worth a revisit, even if it’s just the puzzle.

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New series of puzzles for your entertainment… hours of fun! 😈

Here’s the link to the first one… http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=2e99590384c4

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@Braid Beards Gang wrote:

@sandlanders wrote:

I think that I may have jumped the shark with my latest Twisted Limbs puzzle… More Snow. I am not having any fun at all working on it, and I have made very little progress so far. 🙄 😕

It is brutal.

Here is a more enjoyable one for you to work on, BBG:

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I think that I may have jumped the shark with my latest Twisted Limbs puzzle… More Snow. I am not having any fun at all working on it, and I have made very little progress so far. 🙄 😕

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