With their most victories ever in a regular season, the San Francisco Giants have made it back to the postseason and have a chance to win the World Series for the fourth time this century. Currently, the team is scrambling to clinch the division title which would help them avoid a single-elimination Wild Card game on October 6th against the Cardinals and would give them home-field advantage for the entire playoffs. Go Giants!
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Special Notes about the 2021 Puzzle Challenge: To be considered for Fastest Solver points, you must verify your solution with Certitude. Finders will receive Top Finder points when submitting Found It logs to the cache page. All "point" scoring is arbitrary, subject to change, at the discretion of the cache owner, and probably completely meaningless (unless you just want to be announced sooner at the celebration party, if one even happens in 2022, as we didn't have one in 2020 and it looks dubious as to whether we'll have one in 2021). The real challenge is to see whether I can even figure out how to create a new puzzle each month this year! To maintain fairness, hints should not be offered by the cache owner or other solvers until the fifteenth of the month.
Special Notes about this month's puzzle: We will see whether this puzzle gives people more trouble than the 3-star difficulty rating I've suggested.
First To Solve: toolrep1 (4 hours)
First To Log: nozy nabor (8 hours)
Named pre-hint solvers: 24
Pre-hint finds logged: 7
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