Welcome to the
Frederick Puzzler's Corner!
This is a monthly event to encourage puzzle solving in the geocaching community.
All are welcome, however if you are feeling at all unwell or suspect you have recently been exposed to COVID19,
PLEASE STAY HOME.
This event will be held in accordance with current local COVID-19 guidelines.
If you have a specific puzzle or puzzling topic you'd like help with, feel free to make note of it in your Will Attend log so others can prepare to help.
Fun Facts:
In 1978, the world's first SPAM email was sent by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). They were advertising a new computer. The message was sent to 393 email addresses and, needless to say, was received poorly.
In 2018, a new fissure opened in the East Rift Zone of Kilauea volcano on The Big Island of Hawaii and started spewing lava. This was preceeded in March by significant lava movements higher up along and on Kilauea's summit. After two magma domes rose dramatically and then collapsed, magma moved underground from the summit and Pu'u O'o toward the middle and Lower East Rift Zone, marked by a series of earthquakes. Then on May 3rd, the first fissure opened in the residential subdivision called Leilani Estates, quickly followed by several more openings throughout the Puna District. Lava spilled over, eventually destroying 700 homes, displacing 2000 people, and covering 13.7 square miles of land. When the eruption was declared over in August, over 60,000 earthquakes had been recorded, and another 875 acres of new land had been added to the island of Hawaii.
For more information on the 2018 Kilauea eruption, visit this National Park Service link.
By the way, you can order Spam (the edible kind, of course) at Burger King and McDonald's restaurants throughout the islands. You may even want to visit the "Waikiki Spam Jam" held every Spring on Oahu!
Here's the usual spiel…
This event is open to all geocachers, no matter what your statistics say or whether you even like puzzles! Newbies and addicts, socialites and lone wolves, mark your calendar.
If you've got a puzzle or mystery cache that's currently got you stumped, this event is for you!
This is an unstructured think-tank assembly where you can collaborate on the latest tantalizing quizzler on your radar. Much learning comes from working with others to solve a targeted teaser, and there may be a short tutorial thrown in once in a while. You don't have to work on puzzles to attend; there are always good stories to be heard and told. However, you'll have plenty of others to bounce ideas around with, and you might discover someone has solved a puzzle using a similar technique. We continue to see successes and progress at each gathering.
For the puzzle junkies, bring your puzzle paraphernalia - flagged caches, laptop or tablet (Wi-Fi is available), theories, library card, worksheets, (sp)eye glasses, flight plans, Enigma machine, abacus, scratch paper (don’t forget your writing instrument) - you never know who, or what, will show up, and from whom you can gain an advantage. Have you recently cracked a tough one and want to see others’ wheels spinning? That could be very entertaining! Yes, we have regular head-slapping moments!
When & Where:
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022, 6pm - 8pm
Panera Bread
1700 Kingfisher Drive, Suite 1
Frederick, Maryland
(Look to your left as you come in)
All food and beverage costs are your own responsibility, though no purchase is required.
Field trips not included. But it's a good time to plan them!
If you drop any trackables into this event, make sure they have all been claimed or reclaimed before you leave. We don’t want them getting lost in the muggle world!