Bingo - The moving cache race for 2012/2013

[DG Tas]

I noticed at about 20 past 12 this morning someone had already started to find caches, then when I woke up at 7 I saw on my phone that ALL bar 1 cache near me had been found already!

You people are crazy

Yes, yes we are! We left one for you...we underestimated the equipment for the job! We might come back today for another go at it. Its a good one

[caughtatwork]

There are 0 Bingo caches belonging to 90 members in the game.

Before the game starts all caches entered are counted.
Once the game starts ONLY caches that are published are counted.
At midnight the game started, but nothing had yet been published at the time the data was extracted from GCA.
You'll see that the count is now down at 400 as there are nearly 100 caches which haven't yet been published.

[nutwood]

I noticed at about 20 past 12 this morning someone had already started to find caches, then when I woke up at 7 I saw on my phone that ALL bar 1 cache near me had been found already!

You people are crazy

Yes, yes we are! We left one for you...we underestimated the equipment for the job! We might come back today for another go at it. Its a good one

You'll never please Craigrat. Last year we left him a little frog at the end of his road and you should have seen the carry on. I believe in the end he called the police to help him look for it!

[caughtatwork]

Hey I have 7 caches but I only got 3 bingo cards is this because I did them at different times

This may have been my poor programming.
I've fixed up another two for you.

[caughtatwork]

Mine still haven't appeared yet!?!?

They're all there and published.

[caughtatwork]

One of mine showed up befor everyone's. Err weird.
Points to me for publishing it at 11:58,on my phone in a carpark.


Anyway. Three ftf's in an hour. Zzzzz

The caches are published at 00:05 as they come through the auto publisher.
Depending on the synchronisation of time devices (clocks), they may be a few minutes early or late.
As there are some 400 to publish, they could take 10, 15, 20 minutes to get through the list.

[caughtatwork]

Will your bingo card get marked off on the cachinggames.com website as you log caches?

On the hour, yes.
The data is extracted from GCA each our (to keep the bandwidth and site hits down).
At that time your cards are updated and caches which are moved by 1km or more, by you, will show up green.
Your name at cachinggames.com must match your name at GCA so the software can tell who moved what.

[caughtatwork]

how come Zhaohim has a bingo card with only 4 numbers on?

She doesn't.
Depending on how fast your internet connection is and how fast the server is running, there is a pause between the gobs of data spewed from my server to you. Data is only spewed is certain sized gobs, so it may look like there is something missing. Give it a few moments and it should finish.

[Bronnie_1990]

There are 0 Bingo caches belonging to 90 members in the game.

Before the game starts all caches entered are counted.
Once the game starts ONLY caches that are published are counted.
At midnight the game started, but nothing had yet been published at the time the data was extracted from GCA.
You'll see that the count is now down at 400 as there are nearly 100 caches which haven't yet been published.

One of those is sitting in my car.

(I would of left it where i stole another, but...alas, putting coords in on a phone is hard work. Sorry)

[nutwood]

Our nutwood finds don't appear to be appearing on our Bingo cards. Perhaps the nutwood33 thing is confusing the issue? I thought we only had the "33" for GC stuff as nutwood was already taken but it does seem to pop up occasionally.

[CraigRat]

Yes, yes we are! We left one for you...we underestimated the equipment for the job! We might come back today for another go at it. Its a good one

Yeah..... thanks for that...... pity I don't have the implement required though.. it's all yours!

[cathylmorgan]

Spoiler: show

Mine still haven't appeared yet!?!?

They're all there and published.

They come up under my name - but aren't appearing on the list. They were on the map this morning but now aren't!

[fluffyfish]

Caches all published. Beautiful weather and the Perth event starting soon! Hope to grab a brace of caches to move a 1 km this morning.

[Tuena]

Caches all published. Beautiful weather and the Perth event starting soon! Hope to grab a brace of caches to move a 1 km this morning.

Hot as Hades here & the nearest BINGO cache is 103 Kms away.

[SeabreezeOZ]

how come Zhaohim has a bingo card with only 4 numbers on?

She doesn't.
Depending on how fast your internet connection is and how fast the server is running, there is a pause between the gobs of data spewed from my server to you. Data is only spewed is certain sized gobs, so it may look like there is something missing. Give it a few moments and it should finish.

yes, thanks, all good now, connection down here in Margaret River is SO SLOW!