Mad Scientist - SC#Bonus (Waikato) Huntington, North Island, New Zealand
By Cats&Dragons on 10-Sep-11. Waypoint GC33ZJQ

Bollox, just when I had this solved as well....

That That That's All Folks

Whew finished ...had rather a rye smile on my face when I turned up to find this one.....seems I may have been in this area before ...clever placement and use of territory....the cache was quickly found and signed ...all quiet here at present thanks Cats and Dragons great series

Whew, finally finished this series and the bonus. Got all the numbers, and in my excitement didn't even think about confirming with Geochecker - luckily no need for that as it was correct. Of course there was some backtracking to get the bonus as we didn't do them in order. SApproached gz and was a bit hesitant but the cache was nicely snug and out of sight. Log paper was a bit manky, but writeable and looked like there was more as well. Thanks for the series Cats&Dragons.

In Hamilton for a Daffodil show yesterday. Early start for a big day caching, a quick stop as I headed out into the country side. The log is full. Thanks Cats&Dragons for the cache.

Was a little hesitant about finding a cache in this residential area but actually it was right out in the open. Returned to a slightly less exposed location. TFTC. And thanks for an enjoyable puzzle series.

2104 Solved the rest of series and collected them some time ago. Never considered the bonus. So recently I went back to collect the codes. Didn't find one of them so had to go around again. Still no luck in finding. So at work I used google maps and defence maps and came up with a logical answer. Thankfully it came up with the green tick. That was lucky. Have left it for awhile until I needed a cache. Picked up on the way home tonight. Loved the series.

Yay finally finished this series. Quick grab today while out and about in Hamilton. Really enjoyed these puzzles and finds, thank you so much! Log was a bit damp

A quick find today exactly where we looked last time not sure how we missed it! Thanks for the series we enjoyed solving them.

Out for a caching afternoon with daughter, bellbox. A quick find once the muggles next door drove off. Thanks for the fun series.

Solved this yesterday & was pleased to see how close to home it was. A nice walk after dinner tonight & a quick find at GZ. Cache in good order, although log a little bit damp. Have really enjoyed this series so giving it a favourite. SL. TNLN. TFTC!

A quick find on the way past heading back to work.

Cache in good order and well camouflaged. TFTC and the puzzle series! It was fun find #1263, 6 dot days left

#199. Finished off the series with this (after a bit of guile) despite SC#3 almost certainly being mia. After not being found for 1 year 1 day the log was all good if a little damp. Nothing 5 mins on a warm dash didn't fix though. Thanks Cats&Dragons for the series. Tftc.

No joy for us today.

We enjoyed this series, thanks! - solved this back in June after getting the last clues. It was reasonably quiet at GZ this afternoon but we still felt quite exposed to muggles eyes, so after a few mins at GZ with no sign of a cache, we abandoned search. Hope to come back and have more success another time.

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Thought I was going MAD! Left out a digit which threw me out. At least I know how to use the Geochecker now. Thanks C n D for a GREAT series, which was my intro to Puzzle caches. Loved the challenges.

Solved final co-ords a while ago. Took a drive with some of my kids before one of their soccer games. Saw a Pukeko on the road at GZ so good excuse to stop. Told them the hint and cmat found it.
T4TP&C

3.30pm - Had solved this puzzle some time ago so while in the area grabbed it. Cach a little damp. SLTFTC

This was a great series. Loved the history and puzzles! Added blue ribbons to the caches along the way. TFTCs!

Stopped on way home from Auckland after getting the other puzzles on way to Auckland used the clues we got to solve the puzzle and geocheck the answers had the correct co ordinates but got to GZ and had a good feel around under fence behind retaining wall in gap between the retaining blocks couldn't find will have to come back next time we are in Hamilton lived the puzzles in this series.

Just PAF that has found previously and went back to check still can't find maybe missing ?

Have checked cache and replaced, sorry about that.
Please use geochecker for the final updated coordinates

thank you

A fabulous series of puzzles - highly recommended!

Knocked off this series. Has given us more confidence in puzzle solving. Thanks.

#6505. Luckily Hamilton isn't too big, so it didn't take too long to get back here post our cuppa and coord checking session. Fav point for the series. TFTC.

After finding all the contributing caches in the morning (but not the Beatles Help info as the lid was AWOL), we went back to the motel for a cuppa and the internet. Was able to deduce the missing numbers and soon had the geochecker approval. Back to a familiar territory and soon we had the final cache in hand. Thanks for the series, and the puzzles and a fav point on behalf. TFTC.

solved this a very long while ago and went to find it but it looked very conspicuous so left it for another day. Over in the neighborhood doing another cache, thought it's now or never, so went and did it. Good camo and a quick find. TFTC

Have been forcing myself into liking puzzle caches recently. As a result, I have bits of paper with solved puzzles everywhere. On yet another hunt to finish off the business... Picking up the odd traditional as well.

Found all of the series caches over a period of time. Sorted out the bonus clues and was waiting for a chance to collect. Arrived at ground zone today and reached in... The neighbours were busily working in their garage and seemed to be disinterested in my visit. This completes a very good collection of puzzles. TFTP and TFTC.

Fuzzy_FuzzNuts - finally after fluffing around half the day and realizing we missed one clue!
Dropped off travel tag - happy adventures

With Fuzzy_Fuzznuts

Thanks for the series and this bonus puzzle. SL TFTC

Enjoyed this excellent series. In Hamilton for a few days. Found six of the seven caches -couldn't find no. Five, but we're able to solve the bonus. Thanks.

A great fun series, really enjoyed it. Found all the contributing caches last weekend and probably could of grabbed the bonus then if I was a bit more with it! No problem though as I was passing through the area again today. A quickish find whilst keeping an eye out for Muggles.

Many thanks Cats&Dragons

The team and I headed down to Hamilton today with the aim of completing this cool puzzle series. The solutions have been sitting in my old puzzle book for over a year now. About time to revisit Hamilton and complete the formalities on these caches, I think! Oh, and to collect the bonus along the way too!

Having collected all the requiste information along the way today, we headed to a playground so the Future Finder could have a run around while I put the clues together. Having shown the foresight to bring an appropriate resource this process fell into place very quickly and I soon had produced some very likely looking coordinates. We parked up nearby but had to wait out a car full of Muggles before beginning the search. Nice quick find of the final. Left the "Were all mad here" geo-coin, which I thought was very appropriate.

Cheers for putting this series together and for any and all effort required to maintain it.

Really enjoyed the series, went to places I hade not seen before, and learned a few things as well. The themed caches were cool, and the muggly nature of some of the locales made the finds enjoyable.

Yes - I really did enjoy the series - bit worried at the final GZ but I put my hand in at just the right spot - Thanks for putting the series together TFTC

An enjoyable series to solve and find, thanks for all the effort gone into it! Haven't been to this area of Hamilton for a while, the series offered us a good chance to explore, TFTCs!

Finally!! - easy find of the final today in the sunshine. It has taken a while - including a second visit to some of the caches to reconfirm the clues. Loved the series. A fave. Thanks very much Cats&Dragons

Nice series; the puzzles not to difficult for one that likes a puzzle as long as it's not too obscure.

Finally got round to finding the final after solving the puzzle a week or two ago... We popped round at about 9pm thinking it'd be an easier find under the cover of darkness with no one about. However as we approached GZ we noticed 3 people going for a night time stroll slooooowly making their way towards it. OK, let's go for a little drive and wait until they've walked past.

As we started searching, we noticed a neighbour starting their car engine, so we tried to look like 2 teenagers making out , with one of us sitting on the wall looking innocent. Car drove past and we could resume the search. It was lucky that Mrs 2NK didn't let out a blood-curling scream when she touched the cache whilst feeling around in the dark, as she thought she had touched a dead mouse .

Just as we were signing the log (apologies for the fat pen used, which is the only thing we had with us - pencil in cache had broken tip), a group of teenagers on skateboards appeared round the corner. Blimey, this is a busy spot even at night time! Waited until they had gone past to put the cache back in its hidey hole, which took longer than expected as one of them fell off and lied on the floor for a while whilst their mates laughed at him... nothing like male sympathy, sheeesh! [B)]

Thanks for all the effort put into creating the series!

what a nice cache to do

Thanks for the series,got some help from so friends to help me with the series.But we did it Thanks

Have been too check on this early this morning and it is still in place as per the hint given, "I was there before the neighbour was up and out".

Found all the others in the series ages ago, but hadn't found this bonus one, despite having a green tick on Geochecker. Came back again today, but again it eluded me. There was (just like last time) a guy over the road in his garden & garage and I didn't want to arouse his suspicions too much, so I gave up and will have to have a better look sometime when the neighbour is not home!

Finally got time to go back to grab our 1 missing clue (thanks for replacing!) & hence onto the final. Nice easy find. Thanks for a great puzzle series.

I enjoyed the puzzles(not to hard)to finally get to here.
Thanks Cats & Dragons

Found all 7 in the series today but couldn't see a clue in our 2nd of 7. Thought it might not matter, until I'd solved this, & then didn't have time to go back to search again, so we'll have to return to complete the bonus puzzle another day. Great series though - thanks for all the effort in setting this up.

And there we have it. Great puzzle lot, a favourite with us. t4tc

It's great to see a straight forward puzzle cache! Enjoyed the series of caches required as a pre-req to this one.
Combined all the clues and came up with an explosive result!
Out this way, well - within 6kms - so nabbed the scientist while the students were napping.

Great cache series, had alot of fun with this one! Managed to be in a race to the end with fellow geocacher Jasp3r, but he bet me to the bonus while I come home to research the final co-ordinates. Cheers for the cache series!

After a quick phone-a-friend to decipher the clues (as I didn't have an addiquite tool to solve them), we raced off to find this cache. A quick search revealed the cache. A quick look through the logbook showed me that I had beaten Season4 to the bonus . TFTC series!

#2610. Mrs h solved the puzzle, Mr h found the cache. We really enjoyed the puzzles and the consistent theme of this series. Well put together. Thanks for also showing us the new suburbia in Waikato. TNLNSL. TFTC.

got it TFTC

We were in Hamilton for the weekend to attend the 'Why Not An Event Cache'. We had spent several nights solving the puzzles in this series in preparation for this trip. When we arrived at GZ the area was extremely busy with muggles coming & going from a local school fair. We had to wait until the road was clear to grab this well hidden cache. Finally retreived and then had to wait for another break to put it back. We thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle series and has given us a little more confidence with some others. Thanks for all your efforts in putiing this together.

Great series, well constructed puzzles and caches.
Thanks for the effort

As we had a DNF for one of the series, we had to guess it's number, but got it right on the first attempt. This cache is fairly close to our home only two turns to get there, a first on the left and then first on the right. Thanks for this series, the puzzles were interesting without being too difficult.
+ a marble, - nothing.

Out and about grabbing some caches with the Team Welsh crew. We found the others in the series, collecting the info required as we went along and then turned to the resident genius in the back seat who was all ready with the cords for this one. How good is he??? Thanks.

Loved this series. It was with some trepidation when we realised what was required to locate the final and then remembered the Year 11 science student sitting in the back seat. (as if we could forget) Knew most of the required information and then realised there was an study app on his phone that would fill in all the required gaps. Excellent series of puzzles, thanks for all the time that has gone into this.

We enjoyed collecting the Bonus information from the seven Secret Codes and solving the Mad Scientist. Completed the series on our Waikato trip today. We give this series a favourite point, and would recommend it as a good starting point for learning about puzzle codes. Thanks for setting it up.

# 3180

Completed in a day. Awesome series thanks

Now that I knew that the coordinates were correct I quickly had this bonus cache in hand. A most enjoyable puzzle series that even the puzzleophobs should be able to tackle OK.
Many thanks

Found all 7 in the series today, but had to head home to work out where this bonus one would be. I should be ashamed of myself - I have a Masters degree in this subject and once upon a time I knew the relevant table of data off-by-heart. I should have been able to work it out in the field without any help! Ah well, I guess my head doesn't have room for everything and that info is no longer something I need to know every day. Anyway, I've worked it out now, and got a green tick too, so will head out sometime soon to the final spot to find the last cache of the series.

Thanks again, Cats&Dragons for a most excellent series of puzzles and caches

Yay, finally completed the series. Fantastic puzzles, enjoyed everyone.
Thanks for the hard work.

hard to believe im 3rd to find on this bonus cache

Found all of the lead up puzzles and used the android to solve the bonus in the field but was 100% confident and in a bit of a rush (wanted to get home to watch the rugby) and didn't find it. On checking the geochecker later it turned out I had the right coordinates so just can't have looked hard enough.

7628 No problems with the puzzle or the sharp knives at the final… Avoided MCC’s DNA while signing the log. Many thanks Cats&Dragons for a quick fire and cool puzzle series, enjoyed them all.

Took a wee while took solve. Easy find.
Pencil broke while filling in the log so left DNA thanks to the cutty grass
T4tc


Found with a samsung sii i9100

This entry was edited by McCutchan Cache Clan on Friday, 16 September 2011 at 02:26:59 UTC.

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