Are you digging in the Journey or Destination game 2018/2019? Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By whitewebbs on 01-Dec-18. Waypoint GA13134

Check out the Journey or Destination Ladder

The latest Geocaching Australia game runs from 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
 

This new game is about the choices you make in the experience of the journey or the destination.

On your entry to the game you will be asked to create a playing field with a number of ground tiles. Your playing field is a grid 20 x 20 ground tiles making a total number of 400 possible steps you can take on your journey or destination. You choose whether you want to find and follow the path or whether you wanted to meander around. A playing field is unique to each player so there is no benefit in teaming up to beat the system through brute force.

For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath. There are a number of different ground tiles that will be revealed when you click on your playing field. It should be noted that there are no punishments for clicking a tile but there will not always be the reward you were hoping for as you reveal each tile

1. Dirt. The ground beneath the ground tile is just plain old brown dirt.


2. Dirt with some points. The ground beneath the tile is brown dirt but it has some points associated with it.


3. Concrete. The ground beneath is part of the pathway that will lead you on your way to your destination but has no point value.


4. Start. A concrete ground tile that has a blue map marker.


5. Destination. A ground tile that has a green map marker.

Meandering around and avoiding the path will accumulate points that will be used to place on you the ladder of wanderers. The more you stay off the path the higher the number of points you will accumulate and it will be your journey that will be the determining factor in whether you place into a prize winning position. You are free to select any ground tile to click on; they do not need to be next to each other.

Trying to find the path may mean you strike out on the dirt until you eventually come across the path and as a geocacher who can't say that this isn't a tried and true method. Once you find the path however will you try and follow the path as it changes direction around your playing field? Do you go North, South, East or West to try and find the next concrete tile along the path? If you head one way are you heading towards the start or towards the destination? When you do happen upon the destination tile then you will automatically be in a winning position.

At any point you are free to change from the journey to the destination and vice versa but you won't be able to regenerate your playing field. You are also free to keep playing as long as you have qualifying geocaches, accumulating more and more dirt tile points and placing you higher and higher on the ladder.

To log a claim, please take a a screen shot/dump or photo of the computer screen showing your name on the Journey or Destination Ladder at any stage of the race during December 2018 and January 2019. This is all the proof you need to claim a smiley. One claim per team.

Now get out there and enjoy the Journey or Destination game.

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