Millis Marble Madness Wherigo Cache

What is a Wherigo Geocache?
Wherigo is a new way of utilizing GPS technology to play games, take tours, and yes geocache. Visit Wherigo.com to learn more about this new software.

Do I need special equipment? (I'm willing to help. See below)
Yes! To find this cache the proper way and to truly experience the hunt the way it was meant to be experienced, you will need two things:

1. The Wherigo Player
2. The "Millis Marble Madness" Wherigo Cartridge

The Wherigo Player comes pre installed on the Garmin Colorado series GPSr. A version of the player is available for download for use by GPS enabled Pocket PC devices. Click "Download Player" to get the PPC version. Once you have the Player ready to go, you will need to download the cartridge for this cache. Click "Download Cartridge" to get it.

The Setting:
This Wherigo Geocache takes place at Oak Grove Farm in Millis, MA. This area used to be the home of Lansing Millis of whom the town is named after. This area is now owned by the town of Millis and accessible to the public. It offers a couple of youth soccer fields, youth baseball/softball fields, a newly renovated playground, as well as some short walking trails through woods and open fields.

The posted coordinates are for a parking lot which offers parking for probably a dozen or so cars and is also where your Wherigo journey will begin.

The Experience:
This Wherigo experience is pretty straight forward and should be completed with relative ease. It was designed to demonstrate some of the basic functionality of Wherigo and how it can be used for geocaching. What I'm doing with this little game is just the tip of the ice burg; the possibilities are amazing. I would love to hear about your experience with this cache.

Your first task is to visit three areas near the playground where you will be asked to provide some information about what you see in the real world. Each area will reward you with a single colored (virtual) marble. Once you've collected all three marbles, we'll head into the woods to play a little game (Think Mastermind). Once you've successfully completed the game; you will be led to a final "Zone" where you will receive info on the cache location. I would suggest not going off trail until after you've entered this final zone and you're instructed to do so. With the exception of the last 25' the entire experience is on open trails and fields (During the summer, expect some overgrowth during the last 25'). The cache is a 6.8 cup Lock & Lock covered with camo tape.

Is logging my result any different for this cache?
Logging your results here on geocaching.com is no different than any other cache; so no changes there.

Unlocking the cartridge on Whereigo.com is not required, but it would be greatly appreciated. After you've completed the cartridge you should see a "Millis Marble Madness.gws" file on your device. You can upload this file to Wherigo.com and it will "Unlock" it, giving you full credit for completing the cartridge. It will also help track the number of completions for this cartridge. Again not required, but I would really appreciate it if you did.

Don't have the hardware, but still want to experience this?
In the interest of promoting this new cache type I will try to make myself (and my Pocket PC) as available as possible to anyone or any group that would like to experience what this is like. Contact me through my profile and we can try to setup a meeting time and we can run through this thing together and you can get a cool new found icon in your profile.

Feedback is a good thing!
Because this is so new I would greatly appreciate any feedback you can offer (good or bad). Your feedback will help me determine whether or not I should continue to pursue creating more of these types of caches.