The C.I.P. cache series are unique hides placed in honor of
finds no longer there to be made, and also to recognize and honor
retired geocachers. Even with over a million active caches, there
are countless others that have been archived from geocaching.com.
And of the millions of geocaching accounts, there are thousands and
thousands from users who no longer play the game. C.I.P. helps us
remember these finds, these retired cachers and those contributions
to the game.
duteau79@gmail.com: Bennett, I need your help putting together
this new C.I.P. puzzle.
oraclebennett@gmail.com: No prob Bob, what do you need?
duteau79@gmail.com: Well, I need the GC # for the homage so we
can get the right coordinates. The coordinates listed on this
page do not lead to the cache.
oraclebennett@gmail.com: I can look it up for you. What's the
name of the cache?
duteau79@gmail.com: It's listed for this hide in the title, er,
kinda. I have all the right letters, I just got them all mixed up
is the thing. I accidentally clicked the wrong button with my mouse
pad and it scrambled the name up. Right now it says: "GARRY I GAVE
UP AND DRANK DRY MALT MAN". I know the real title is four words
long, but I would have to unscramble all these letters first to get
it.
oraclebennett@gmail.com: Look, I am not Rain Man or Good Will
Hunting or anything. I don't even like word scrambles.
duteau79@gmail.com: Well somebody should be able to
unscramble these letters and give me the name. I mean, a lot of
people have solved our C.I.P. puzzles already, how hard can this
one be?.
oraclebennett@gmail.com: So who do you think will solve it?
duteau79@gmail.com: It's tough to say. Maybe
ikolor?
soflafamily?
MulderNScully or maybe
radioman84? Then, maybe we are not giving enough credit due to
Thel2edRanger,
Blankman29, or heck even
TeamSnook!
oraclebennett@gmail.com: Not to mention ,
themaskedllama,
Dennis the Menace2 and
Hipointer and Capiti Wait, did you say TeamSnook? Ha, I forgot
Elle executed some wicked puzzle-solving skills for C.I.P. Jr! But
you forgot
mathfreak63,
LevyClan4828,
CaptMalcolm and
Rangergirl141
duteau79@gmail.com: We're forgetting the very first cachers to
ever crack my C.I.P. series:
MonkyCheetaLilMonsta!!! Heck, I think I still remember their
log verbatim: We really didn't know where to turn with this one for
the longest time. When it first came out we stared and stared at
it, but drew a blank. Over the past week we would pull it up on the
computer or Daddy's Blackberry whenever we had a spare moment
hoping something would miraculously come to us. Finally this
evening while driving home from jiu-jitsu, it did...an epiphany! As
it happens the first revelation that came to us turned out to be
wrong, but it did lead us in the right direction. Wow! What a great
puzzle cache!!! And on so many levels. The overall design was great
since it surprises you as you go along and realize that it actually
consists of multiple puzzles within a puzzle. Sure, it might start
out as a variation on something we'd seen before, but that was only
the beginning. Once we had figured out what had to be done, we
encountered a problem completing that very task since one must have
knowledge about something that will be obscure to many, even if it
shouldn't be. If one doesn't already have a working knowledge of
that essential piece of information there is seemingly no good way
of researching it and no good reference source to aid one in the
quest. But we figured out a sneaky way around the problem
nonetheless. Thank you oraclebennett for unwittingly providing a
clue by innocently and unintentionally leaving a trail! Once that
piece of the puzzle had finally fallen into place we were left with
information that didn't seem very helpful. First we chased that
same "obscure" lead to try and figure out where to go next, but
that only led us on a few wild goose chases. Next we tried to come
up with workable coordinates using several different "more
traditional" techniques but that wasn't helpful either. We even fed
a few sets of coordinates into Geochecker but couldn't find
success. We took a step back and re-examined the data we had and
then experienced our second "light bulb moment". Now everything
made sense and tied together beautifully. Wow again! How simple!
What a clever way to camouflage the coordinates! Right up to the
very last second we just didn't see how it would be possible to
generate coordinates from the solutions we were coming up with and
yet were sure were correct. The more we figured out the more
impossible it seemed. But when we had that second moment of
ethereal clarity we didn't even need to use Geochecker to know that
we had the right coords. However, by far the best thing about this
puzzle is that you are drawn to the subject and want to know more.
Even after solving the puzzle we took it upon ourselves to learn as
much as we could using the few resources we had available. But we
still want to know more. Can we hear more? Can we? Can we? What a
compelling tribute! It seems oraclebennett is hellbent on joining
the elite rank of Broward puzzle cache designers along with eP, Red
Otter, and harper117. Congrats on a creative, commendable,
honorable, and touching puzzle cache! Yes, indeed, cache in peace,
Mr. W. Our adventure didn't end after finding the cache by the way.
As we drove away from groundzero at about 3:30 AM we accidently cut
off a police officer who gave us a break on the $180 ticket for
failure to yield and instead gave us a $10 ticket for having the
wrong (Mommy's) auto insurance card. (See pic to be added later.)
SL TN Left a blue animal capsule (They grow, grow,
groooooooooooooow in h2o!). T4TreallyGR8?$! C.I.P. Mr. W, Monkey,
Cheetah, & Li'l Monsta'
oraclebennett@gmail.com: Nice! And we are forgetting
antimony13,
auyantepuy and
fsu1567
duteau79@gmail.com: Plus,
Red Otter and
the goonies9805,
Brandee on the rocks and
netsurfr07
oraclebennett@gmail.com: So do you remember what the name of the
cache is now? Or who hid it?
duteau79@gmail.com: No. I was hoping you did.
