10 x 12 Challenge - The Point Mystery Cache
10 x 12 Challenge - The Point
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How well rounded are you? This cache IS at the posted coordinates but you must meet the challenge to log it as found.
To find the cache, turn off Highway 87 onto Road 1666 at mile post 258.8. This is 4.3 miles north of the roundabout at Tyler Parkway in Payson and 3/4 mile north of the bridge over the East Verde River. There is a stop sign and a cattle guard. I recommend parking near the highway and walking up Road 1666. You will climb to a saddle. Just over the crest of the saddle, take an old two-track road to where it ends on top of a knoll, then follow your GPS north to the cache.
Note that Road 1666 crosses Sycamore Creek. The cache will NOT be available if the creek is running much water. The creek was dry when I placed the cache.
The challenge: there are 10 categories with 12 points each. You must have a total of 40 (forty) points out of the possible 120 points to log this cache. You only have to be a little bit rounded to find this cache, that's why it's called The Point.
Most of the information you need can be found on the geocaching statistics pages. You may also need to look through your list of found caches. You will need to do some arithmetic. Round UP no matter how small the fraction.
Longest Streak (measured in days): subtract 5 then divide by 5; max 12.
Days of the year: subtract 35 then divide by 30. For example, 366 -35 = 331 / 30 = 11+ rounds up to 12.
Cache Types Found: 1 point per cache type, max 12.
Container Types Found (large, regular, small, micro, other, virtual, not chosen): 1 point per container type plus 1 point for the second on up to 5 types after all 7 types have been found (to make max 12).
Difficulty x Terrain (number of different combinations): divide by 7.
Countries: 1 point for each country; max 12.
States of the USA: 1 point for each state; max 12.
Alphabet: Caches that start with different letters of the alphabet; subtract 3, divide by 2.
Numbers: Caches that contain (does not have to be at the beginning of the cache name) a different written or numeric number; max 12. Count the number in its entirety and only one number per cache.
Total caches found in a day: how many different total numbers of caches have you found in a day?; max 12. If you have cached for less than a year, you can get the numbers from the "Finds for Each Day of the Year" chart of the statistics page. Otherwise you need to scroll through your caches or use a computer program. Corfman Clan provides a link on their Pyramid Challenges, e.g. GC36N43. (Unlike the pyramids, numbers need not be consecutive and you only need one of each.)
Please state your points per category in your log. For this cache you only need to get 40 points. You may not need to calculate all the different categories.
Examples: New Cacher finds 10 regular size caches on one day in the same state. They all start with the same letter and contain no numbers, and all have the same difficulty and terrain rating. Points: Longest streak = 0. Days = 0. Cache Types = 1. Container Types = 1. Difficulty x Terrain = 1. Countries = 1. States = 1. Alphabet = 0. Numbers = 0. Different total numbers found in one day = 1. Total points = 6. New Cacher needs 34 more points to log 10 x 12 – The Point.
Gnu Qacher also finds 10 caches, but finds five in one day near the Four Corners, one or two in each state; finds three caches the next day in Mexico; finds a cache in California the next day, and attends an event in Oregon on the fourth day. All cache names start with different letters and contain different numbers. All have different combinations of difficulty and terrain ratings. They are eight different types of caches, with five different container types. Longest streak = 4 days, subtract 5, 0 points. Days = 0. Cache Types = 8. Container Types = 5. Difficulty x Terrain: 10/7 rounded up = 2. Countries: 2. States of the USA: 6. Alphabet: (10 – 3) / 2 rounds up to 4. Numbers = 10. Total number of caches found in one day: 5, 3, 1 = 3. Total points = 40. Gnu Qacher is well enough rounded to log 10 x 12 – The Point.
You can now use the new improved checker. The only thing it doesn't count is written-out numbers. You may add those to your point total if you need them.
Many thanks to jpavlik at Project-GC!
KtTris on Feb 16, 2012 had: longest streak, 17 days, - 5 = 12, /5 rounds up to 3. Days = 163 - 35 = 128 , /30 rounds up to 5. Cache Types = 8. Container Types = 7 + second of 5 types = 12. Difficulty x Terrain = 53 / 7 rounds up to 8. Countries = 6. States of the USA = 3. Alphabet = 25 – 3 = 22, / 2 = 11. Numbers = 1, I and one; 2, II, dos and zwei; 3 and drei; 4 and vier; 5 and five; 51; 101; 290; 414; 433; 609; 1914 = 12. Different total numbers found in one day: 1 through 9, 14 and 17 = 11. Total points = 79.
Thanks to 321Kaboom for editing an early version of this cache and to the reviewers for helping me revise it to meet the guidelines!
~*~ Congratulations to 321Kaboom for FTF! ~*~
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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