Bicentennial Challenge - 10 Favorite Caches Mystery Cache
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Bicentennial Challenge - 10 Favorite Caches
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When away from home a great way to find a memorable cache is to look at the “Favorite” votes. You can quickly see the caches others thought were special.
This Cache is NOT at the Listed Coordinates. You must successfully complete the “Challenge” and solve the puzzle below prior to finding, signing log, and logging the final cache. Finds on this cache, which do not have documentation of completing the Challenge will be deleted.
To complete this Challenge, go find 10 caches anywhere in the world, which have an accumulated total of at least 200 Favorite votes. This can be accomplished with any combination such as 6 caches with 30 votes each and 4 caches with 5 votes. But you may only use 10 caches to reach the total of at least 200 Favorite votes. If a cache you target leaves you a little short, you can wait a while hoping it will get more votes from other cachers, or pick out a higher favorite rated cache.
You may use caches previously found (However if it is archived, Favorite votes may sometimes be removed). The Favorite Votes on a cache count the day you log the Challenge final. You MAY use caches previously found.
There are enough Favorite Votes on Michigan Caches to accomplish this Challenge. For those who have ventured further there are some individual caches that exceed 200 votes.
You may use Traditional, Multi, Virtual, Earth, Mystery, Whereigo and Letterbox Caches (No Event, Locationless, or Benchmark). You may use an Archived Cache you previously visited (if it still has enough Favorite Votes), but you may not make a log on a archived cache. You may use up to one (1) cache you have placed, if it is a cache others consider their Favorite.
To document completion of this challenge, in your log provide the GC Code, # of Favorite Votes and Date you found each of the respective 10 caches claimed.
At posted coordinates you will find a Historical sign. Find the last digit of the year the city bought the property this is A, then find the hundreds digit of how much the city paid at auction this is B, subtract the number AB from the last 3 digits of the N coordinate. Now count the number of letters in the name of the Indian Chief whose drawings are stored in the nearby Museum, subtract that number from the last 3 digits of the W coordinate.
We do not want anyone who has completed this challenge to strike out on the final. If you give us notice when you are going to attempt the final, we will verify the final cache is still in place.
There is MaxB’s List of 10 Favorites and then number of votes as of the time we were preparing this Challenge.
GCT0EN – Die Grauen Wolfe – 71 Votes - 11/28/08 (MaxB’s #1 Favorite)
(After you solve an enigma cipher, the final is a model U-Boat that floats up out of a Dutch Canal, with log in conning tower)
GC2018 – Tri-State Marker – 54 Votes - 11/8/03 (Michigan’s #1 Favorite)
GC93 – Indiana’s First – 46 Votes 12/10/06 (Indiana’s #1 Favorite)
GC3798 – Covert Cache – 80 Votes - 4/7/06 (Wisconsin’s #1 Favorite)
GC7B09 – Mall of America Cache III – 73 Votes - 3/22/06 (Minnesota’s #1 Favorite)
GCE02C – View Carre – 350 Votes - 6/13/05 – (Louisiana’s #1 Favorite)
GCGV0P – Original Stash Plaque – 625 Votes – 6/10/06 (Oregon’s #1 Favorite)
GCK25B – Groundspeak HQ – 493 Votes – 6/12/06 (Washington’s #2 Favorite)
GCK12J – Last Stop for a Weary Traveler – 192 Votes – 9/13/05 (DC’s #1 Favorite)
GCP4ZC – The Tree of Life – 5 Votes – 2/22/08 – (Bahrain’s #1 Favorite)
10 Cache total 1989 (Guess we could of named this the Millennium Challenge!)
If you like this Challenge, you might like some of our other challenges:
GC1A30D – ABCDERIAN Challenge:
GC1A30H – Ada to Zion Great Lakes Alphabet Cities Challenge :
GC2TJEZ – Bicentennial Challenge - 10 Favorite Caches:
GC2V3ZG – MaxB’s Caching Bingo Challenge:
GC2T5JW – Challenge of the Century - Travel Bug Hotels:
GC2QN4X – MaxB’s Multi-State County Challenge:
GC31HP5 – 50 State Challenge – “See the USA in Your…”:
GC31HNC – MaxB’s Continental Breakfast Challenge Cache:
GC3N7V4 - MaxB's 1000 Finds the Hard Way Challenge:
GC3N7TA - MaxB's 150 US Counties Challenge:
GC3N7WF - MaxB's Cache Icon Challenge:
GC3Q48Y - Historical Caches of Berrien County
GC43JRX - MaxB's Contiguous Counties Challenge - 5 States
GC43JTD - MaxB's Contiguous Counties Challenge - 10 States
GC43JTY - MaxB's Contiguous Counties Challenge - 15 States
GC4DEQN - MaxB's Contiguous Counties Challenge - 20 States
GC4DER7 - MaxB's Contiguous County Challenge - 25 States
GC5D8QZ - MaxB's Contiguous County Challenge - 30 States
GC5D90M - MaxB's Contiguous County Challenge - 35 States
GC4DXYY - Caching the World - A Stay-cation Challenge
GC53G0K - MaxB's All the Presidents Men
GC59480 - MaxB's Golden Spike Contiguous County Challenge
GC5948T - MaxB's NAFTA Contiguous County Challenge
GC59498 - MaxB's 1000 Finds the REALLY HARD way
GC6KDEF - MaxB's MEGA Event Sates Challenge
GC6KDDA - MaxB's Event Road Warrior Challenge
GC6R421 - MaxB's A Favorite Challenge for Beginning Cachers
GC6R432 - MaxB's Favorite Caches State Challenge
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