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One Upmanship Traditional Cache

Hidden : 9/7/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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According to Wikipedia....One-upmanship is the art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor.


Heard of liar's caches. Haven't found one yet and I can't wait until I do. But instead of doing a liar's cache, I wanted to do something simular without having to lie but yet have fun one-uping each other...with pictures. Interested?

If you want to join in the fun, after you find the cache and log it online, I am asking you to post of picture of a number that is at least one greater than the last cacher posted on this cache. For example, if your the first cacher to find this cache, you could post a picture of yourself with a finger in the air...if your the second finder, perhaps you could do a picture of yourself (or your kid, neighbor, family hamster, lawn gnome) holding up two fingers...your the 100th finder of the cache and the last cacher posted a picture of 771, you could make a sign with 772 or higher, stand by a street sign that might show a city's name with population 855, etc...be creative and lets see where we can take this

Would prefer to see pictures of the cachers with the numbers. It's always nice to see faces that go with the cacher's names. But, if you are afraid of cracking a lens, you could always find pictures of numbers on the internet, the options are limitless.

Remember that this is just for fun, you are not required to post a picture to log the find, but I'd hope that you would like to help share the joy of caching with your face on the cache page.

That's all....have a ton of fun finding and posting

Here is more from Wikipedia on One Upmanship....

Exactly when the term originated is unknown; several examples are known from the early 1900s. It was used in the title of a book by Stephen Potter, published in 1952 as a follow-up to The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (or the Art of Winning Games without Actually Cheating) (1947), which also contained the term, and Lifemanship titles in his series of tongue-in-cheek self-help books, and film and television derivatives, that teach various ploys to achieve this. This satire of self-help style guides manipulates traditional stuffy British conventions for the gamester, all life being a game, who understands that if you're not one-up, you're one-down. Potter's unprincipled principles apply to almost any possession, experience or situation, deriving maximum undeserved rewards and discomforting the opposition. The 1960 film School for Scoundrels and the inferior 2006 film School For Scoundrels were satiric portrayals of how to use Potter's ideas.

In that context, the term refers to a satiric course in the gambits required for the systematic and conscious practice of "creative intimidation", making one's associates feel inferior and thereby gaining the status of being "one-up" on them. Viewed seriously, it is a phenomenon of group dynamics that can have significant effects in the management field: for instance, manifesting in office politics. The term has been extended to a generic, often punning extension, upmanship, used for any assertion of superiority: for instance, Photon upmanship, Native Upmanship, and so on.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)