Bingo - The moving cache race for 2012/2013

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Re: Bingo - The moving cache race for 2012/2013

Post by spatialriq » 03 December 12 5:19 pm

Having my best GCA month ever, 22 found in 3 days ... plus cracked the 100 GCA finds barrier too, with a FTF ... BINGO! :D

Got some of my cards around half full now. Time to be selective and track down the missing numbers ... this is where it gets interesting. :?

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Re: Bingo - The moving cache race for 2012/2013

Post by caughtatwork » 03 December 12 7:05 pm

You're doing better than I am. 11 finds and only 2 green boxes :cry:
Something tells me as the game administrator I might need new numbers :twisted:

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Re: Bingo - The moving cache race for 2012/2013

Post by gmj3191 » 03 December 12 8:39 pm

Great innovation by covert and Ali-J to put QR code tags on their bingo caches.
A quick scan and you can open GA Cacher at the right page to log them without any other action.

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Re: Bingo - The moving cache race for 2012/2013

Post by quiet1_au » 03 December 12 9:04 pm

Melbourne Bingoees

I saw a banner up this evening that there will be a working bee in Wattle Park this Saturday. There are a few larger caches here, could somebody please rescue them before then just in case they get discovered and trashed?.... and Its a popular place to hide moveables (especially for me :wink: ) butI would avoid placing any more here until after the weekend just in case...

Thanks
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Re: Bingo - The moving cache race for 2012/2013

Post by tronador » 03 December 12 9:08 pm

caughtatwork wrote:You're doing better than I am. 11 finds and only 2 green boxes :cry:
Something tells me as the game administrator I might need new numbers :twisted:
:( ](*,) Those of us here in Sydney have discovered there are very few numbers needed on our cards, that are actually in Sydney or even NSW or ACT for that matter. In fact, a few numbers I've checked out, has no possibilities here, in every other state but NSW.
So I feel your pain! C@W

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Re: Bingo - The moving cache race for 2012/2013

Post by tronador » 03 December 12 9:10 pm

:shock: :shock: Oh now lookie here...... my first green box just appeared. :-"

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Re: Bingo - The moving cache race for 2012/2013

Post by tronador » 03 December 12 9:14 pm

Just checking some distances and it appears that the cache with the longest distance and overall distance, leading the race is a frog, not a BINGO game piece...... and a frog that has been archived. How did that sneak in here???? :shock:

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Post by DisSister » 03 December 12 9:35 pm

The two caches listed against wileyclan on the ladder are both frogs and neither of them seem to have been placed by wileyclan. Something a bit funny seems to have happened there as they also have three bingo cards!

For those of you worried about finding your card numbers, be thankful you're not in Brisbane!
I'm more than happy to be contacted by any travellers wanting to organise swaps.

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Re: Bingo - The moving cache race for 2012/2013

Post by caughtatwork » 03 December 12 9:39 pm

tronador wrote:Just checking some distances and it appears that the cache with the longest distance and overall distance, leading the race is a frog, not a BINGO game piece...... and a frog that has been archived. How did that sneak in here???? :shock:
Possibly some placeholders.

Three bogus racers have been nuked.
GA3537, GA3538 and GA3539.
Anyone who had these ticked off their card due to finds when these racers were in play last year have had those ticks removed.

Thanks for the headsup tronador.

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Re: Bingo - The moving cache race for 2012/2013

Post by tronador » 03 December 12 9:42 pm

VDub Bingo GA4291 appears to be out in the Tasman Sea, have PM ed the last hider. Appears that a typo has occurred. Or we need to go for a very long swim to retrieve it. 8-[

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Re: Bingo - The moving cache race for 2012/2013

Post by petan » 03 December 12 10:05 pm

DisSister wrote:The two caches listed against wileyclan on the ladder are both frogs and neither of them seem to have been placed by wileyclan. Something a bit funny seems to have happened there as they also have three bingo cards!

For those of you worried about finding your card numbers, be thankful you're not in Brisbane!
I'm more than happy to be contacted by any travellers wanting to organise swaps.
DisSister I am happy to do the usual Brisbane - Lismore shuttle service but it will need to wait until school holidays start at the end of the week. Of course you could always come down to Surfers and pick up the two at near the GC600 pit lane so I can legitimately move them (they're mine). The 'Lismore' crew tend to get a little cranky if I kidnap all their moveables without leaving something in return.

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Post by GJMMelb » 03 December 12 10:08 pm

gmj3191 wrote:Great innovation by covert and Ali-J to put QR code tags on their bingo caches.
A quick scan and you can open GA Cacher at the right page to log them without any other action.
And Spladem's :D

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Re: Bingo - The moving cache race for 2012/2013

Post by GJMMelb » 03 December 12 10:13 pm

http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga5309

This one is a number I need so that is why I looked at it ...
It has the moveable icon but says it is Locationless, locationless, locationless and has no co-ords.
It's also in the middle of the ocean :shock:

Ummmmm lol

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Post by CraigRat » 03 December 12 10:14 pm

GJMMelb wrote:
gmj3191 wrote:Great innovation by covert and Ali-J to put QR code tags on their bingo caches.
A quick scan and you can open GA Cacher at the right page to log them without any other action.
And Spladem's :D
And let's not forget the site has had a QR code generator for your owned caches for about 6 months or more........................... =D> :roll: :D :lol:

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Re: Bingo - The moving cache race for 2012/2013

Post by caughtatwork » 03 December 12 10:22 pm

GJMMelb wrote:http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga5309

This one is a number I need so that is why I looked at it ...
It has the moveable icon but says it is Locationless, locationless, locationless and has no co-ords.
It's also in the middle of the ocean :shock:

Ummmmm lol
That suffers from the problem where the cache was published without co-ords. Then the cacher added the co-ords. When the first found log came through, it updated the cache co-ords to the published log which were at 0,0. It looks like it's in someones hands, so when they move it it should return to normal, except the first finder won't get any distance points.

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