Munzee List for Hiders

I was impressed with this list of principles that Zalgariath follows. He posted the list to the Munzees: Have I been doing it wrong? forum discussion. I thought I'd share it here:

• I will make durable, quality Munzees... and usually with a custom skin. Laminated and designed to last.
• I will take care the location I deploy in is scanable, sensible, and has at least some interest.
• I will attach my munzees in a decent manner and NOT damage the fixture with permanent glue or things.* Once they go, I want NO SIGN they were ever there.
• I will deploy a Munzee in each of MY geocaches or at least nearby
• I will deploy while travelling a long way from home if I find an awesome spot.
• I will maintain cache Munzees
• I will not maintain, I will simply archive, all my long distance ones if reported missing.
• I will deploy series and trails, spaced close, in large numbers but taking into account the above quality / interest concerns.
• I may or may not vigorously maintain these series, depending on if they are meant to work together and should be kept whole (like Munzopoly) or if they are a nature trail with so many along a walk the loss of a few won't matter.
• I will help my fellow Munzeers with events, custom Munzees and advice.
• I will comment on and rate every Munzee I find.
• I will tell a Munzee owner if I think their deployment is a bit rubbish or needs a rethink... in a nice way  
• I will Cap Virtuals... I will not comment on them, unless done really well. Effort for effort!
• I will Cap anything, but prefer walks and trails with a Munzee every 100-200m hidden in a variety of ways.

Density is good.... BUT! VARIETY VARIETY VARIETY.... 50 munzees under every seat? No fun. 50 Munzees under seats, on poles, on trees, behind signs, fences... much better

* Some glue jobs are fine. Guard rails, Trolls, Backs of some old signs... but I have seen a number that are stuck to places that they really should be like statues :(

Munzee QR codes used at Boy Scouts of America conference

Thought I'd post a link to an article that explains how Munzee team up with the Boy Scouts of America to munzify the Scouts:

QR codes used by Boy Scouts of America with the help of Munzee

Each event had a barcode for scouts to scan. And each barcode had points. The more important the event, the more points were rewarded. Members with the most points at the end of the National Order of the Arrow Conference won prizes. A great way to get members to attend events, at least long enough to scan the barcode. ;)

According to the NOAC site in addition to the QR code at the events, each participant received a personal munzee in their registration packet that could be shared with other guests which will lead to more points.  Interesting. Maybe this was a test of the moving munzee concept that has been discussed in the forums. Perhaps in the future all munzee participants can purchase a traveller. It could be a quick way to get points especially when worn (tshirt, hat, badge, pin, etc) at munzee events.

Hilarious GC log

I was doing a google search trying to find an old forum post of mine (which I didn't find :( ) when I came across this old Lost & Found Cryptosporidium-623 log nomination. Essence of Beldar Conehead on Saturday Night Live. I thought I'd post it here so I'd have a record of it:

Cryptosporidium-623 found Enigma #1

Friday, 28 January 2011Colorado 

 

Look, I found a
RUBBER CHICKEN inside!

Bwah ha ha ha ha!

Your inverted bolita collector was no match for the mighty Cryptosporidium-623 from planet FURON! As my clone, 507, our K-9 Mark III unit and myself approached the location of your diabolical device, we happened upon a Hooman attempting to use his primate neurons to reassemble the unit. He ran from the scene, waving his arms and screaming something about being unable to solve the "reverse puzzle."

As we were more interested in a conquest of technology than another boring rectal probing (yes, we've learned all we are going to using THAT method), we obtained the device and analyzed its construction.

From our initial scans, it appeared, to us at any rate, as if the unit was intended to be an unholy pairing between a sewage evacuation system and a soup thermos. Interesting, tasty and sinister all at the same time (the way we Furons like them!)

Upon further examination, we discovered that the locking mechanism was left open, allowing us to quickly open the upper compartment and imprint our identities on the pulp-based logging analog. We then used our angular tractor beam device to retrieve the knowledge spheres that contained the security codes allowing us to PROPERLY SECURE THE UNIT. Oh look, we matched the patterned sequence on the FIRST try. Mwah haaa haaaa!

As far as primitive Hooman constructs go, we consider this device to be most worthy. In fact, we may borrow this design for a portable flatulence incinerator that we've been working on.

Thank you for your feeble attempts to postpone the inevitable downfall of Sol-III.

--Cryptosporidium-623
(AWESOME container, guys! TFTC!)

A munzee review blog article

Munzee – A scavenger hunt for your smartphone

August 8, 2012 By Adrian Faulkner

 

It seems every time you look there’s a new geolocation game on the market. Some of these are little more than thinly veiled behaviour tracking vehicles fighting for a place in an already crowded segment of the app market, but some of them are genuinely fun games offering something a little different. Munzee is one of the fun ones, sitting somewhere between traditional geocaching and smartphone based location-based games such as Foursquare....

See the full article at GPS Tracklog