Little G's Twista (Canterbury) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By LittleG Magic on 04-Nov-11. Waypoint GC3767V

This has run its course - a cacher has taken the magic trick which spins to reveal the 7 of diamonds for the puzzle , so it is water logged useless and suffered from cache creep

Its gone

Will replace with another cache in the area - we like the spot

A Little G cache for a dot day? Alright! Sadly I couldn't sign the log as it's a good way to being recycled paper. I have a photo of the cache contents to email the CO when I get to a PC. I'm doubly pleased to find this as it's not my first attempt. Phone GPS had me a long way off last time but this time it counted down to 0 right at the GZ. Tftc
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This entry was edited by Rincewind3 on Wednesday, 15 January 2014 at 20:28:45 UTC.

Had this one downloaded in my GPS for a while so didn't read the previous logs about the log being saturated. It still is and will need to be replaced. TFTC.

Good quick walk together, quick look around and found the cache! Very wet despite the dry day - needs maintenance!

Very wet and log book unable to be signed.

Sorry Little G but this container isn't standing up to the weather. When I checked on the cache today the cache was full of water and the contents were saturated. I think it's due for another warrant of fitness.

Was nearing dinner time so thought i would have a quick little search. Was reading the cache description again when i saw it was a little g cache so decided to leave this for another day when i have a bit more time.

Searched for 20 mins and found an item of interest but no log.

I didn't do enough research before arriving at GZ.

thanks for that

TFTC!

dnf

Boy this one has been on my list for soooo long!!! Might be a little less than it was but nevertheless a twisty little walk and a nice dry spot. Thanks.

This one has been a monkey on my back for months now. I have a DNF and have been muggled on this one. This was my third attempt. The first two times my phone had me miles off and I came back with the GPSr and it pointed my in the right direction today and had the cache in hand within seconds. Don't you love that!!! No cool twisty thingey. That's a real shame. I have been able to see one in action thanks to the CO. Thanks for the cache and the container was a laugh.
#913
Day 161 of our streak

This is now only a traditional and not a very good one at that ! - with demise of the magic twist we have placed all the required information for See More Cards now within that cache page - no longer do you have to find information at 2 other traditional caches. It is probably still going to be challenging to solve !
LGM

Was passing by & just had to have another look. Today the GPS settled in an area not covered on a previous visit. This is a very untraditional traditional LGM hide. Did not find anything that the hint alluded to, nor anything that was useful to obtain further details to go to next level of another LGM cache. Hmmm don't like our chances, if experience here is anything to go by. [B)]

This entry was edited by La Vista on Saturday, 02 March 2013 at 23:28:19 UTC.

Reported the magic trick hidden inside is now missing - wonder what happened this time ? Perhaps someone thought it was a swap and left the squash ball , someone took it to play and work out the card value - simply taken !

Will disable until we can work out how to proceed as it effects another cache

LGM

Didn't know what to expect as approached GZ on a nice walk. GPS was not settling well but noticed that it was not very private where we thought we had to look so thought we better come back another time.

wow tougher to find. had to use my botanical knowledge and satellite imagery to find this one. not sure about the twist thing tho. tftc

A lethargic day too hot for rushing around, so a few easier caches today. Took a while to find, but was nice and cool under the trees. 1 out of 5 LGM hides found today. Thanks for the hide.

Another honourable second for me.

Nice spot on a beautiful afternoon. Tftc

A blissful day spent solo caching and biking. What a cool spot - thank you - I never knew it existed! am yet to "go to the next level" and in fact, now that I am home and thinking about it, I may return. another fabulous Little G cache. Many thanks! SL = small plastic tiki.

All dry today.

Out on a day's "hard work" with MacPacFamily Mum and JustMeG.

The other two had both found this, but were revisiting for certain reasons, so I was the only one to sign. I had to admire the twisting going on in the immediate vicinity... and be greatful for small mercies...

Still don't understand the twist bit

We were over here for New Zealands first ever Mega Event when we found this neat cache towards the end of our two week caching blitz of the South Island.
What a fantastic two weeks it has been as well, it has been a really neat driving around the South Island checking out the spectacular sceanery, we are in AWE of your back yard, truely beautiful.
Many thanks for the placing the cache.............TNLNSL......................Cheers.

Found as part of the Gangsters- The Rats, Farmer Frentzen and Big Matt and Shell- as part of our NZ Mega Event Tour 2012.

Once we avoided the muggle lurking nearby GZ The Rats managed to find the cache. Thanks!

Found during 'The Gangsters' trip to New Zealand, being Big Matt, The Rats, steeba and myself.

This one took longer to work out how to get to GZ than to make the find.

Thanks LittleG Magic for the cache.

Our 6052nd overall find.

Found on the "Gangsters" NZ Mega 2012 trip with steeba, The Rats and FarmerFrentzen. This one had me a bit nervous at first as I spotted a logical spot that was being overlooked by the locals. Luckily The Rat was paying attention to his GPS and made a quick find.

Thanks LittleG Magic for the cache.

Found this cache as part of the Gangster's Aussie assault on the first NZ Mega with Big Matt, FarmerFrenzten and steeba.

This was a tricky cache to access and once at GZ we were confronted with a muggle in her backyard but after a short time we soon had the cache in hand.
Thanks

After failing to even find the cache on our previous visit, this time we succeeded in getting that far, but the twist eludes us, as we expected it to. TFTC

Lovely little spot, unfortunately even with the kids twisting and flipping everything in sight we couldn't find it.

And yet another one on my way home...I'd just been & done Tom's Crossing and thought I'd have a crack at this one while in the area. Again the area totally deserted, although there were a few 'mother's with kids at the nearby park. Reasonably easy find after a quick search. The bottom tray would be handy for the filter papers...if I smoked...which I don't. TN:LN. TFTC. #112 for us.

Very clever hide. Found with the Wombles-BBT. TFTC

Caching with Little Horrible,and found quickly on a nice spring day.TFTH

Took a late afternoon walk through the park to get this ... but ... it was the fiorst nice weekend for a while, the ground was dry, and many neighbours were mowing their lawns, playing with kids in the garden - including the one closest to where I think I wanted to be. So we walked on by and will be back another day.
Had an email from my sister in Taranaki this week - they'd had a "little" localised twister visit which wrote off their front fence! Her words : "you can keep your earthquakes, twisters are bad enough!"
Have attached one of the pics - the street light is holding up one end of the fence - the other is at about 45degrees, and the box beside (now nearly under) the fence is apparently vital for the supply of electricty to the suburb, so they nearly had no power!

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This entry was edited by Ruru_nz on Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 7:09:30 AM UTC.

We didn’t even manage to find the cache, let alone work out the twist.

262- Twista.. hmm... we're not in Taranaki now! Sure glad we don't get those, earthquakes are enough to deal with. The weather co-operated much better today than last week for our outing. What a lovely winter's morn to go for a stroll to GZ. Didn't take long to locate thankfully, and signed and replaced. TFTC

Met the neighbours who thought we were either going to steal the paving stones (because someone had recently...hopefully not a cacher!) or that we were from the council come to clean up the rubbish! If previous searcher's think they have been stealthy, think again! We explained the game and smiled alot and they were happy to leave us to our hunt. Another 5 mins of thoughtful searching turned up the container. No luck with the cryptic comments about 'twista' though.

Fun box. Couldn't solve the puzzle of 'Twista'. Bit of interest from the locals but all good. TFTC.

We were starting to twist in circles and a find looked unlikely until I checked the cache page more thoroughly. With the extra info in hand Mr B walked up and found it. Fun, thanks.

Another check of the cache page provided the info allowing us to ID GZ. GPS was leading us astray until then.
Thank you for placing this cache.

No flooding but fear it will a few days time.

No luck with this one despite looking in all the fairly obvious spots. In fact I was trying to determine where a T2.5 would take me, maybe up a tree so I looked at the nearby ones without spotting anything to make me climb. Curious.

3rd DNF tonight. Will be back. "Think like a child".

Second time lucky. Found easily once GPS had settled.

Quick find. Dont know what the twist was supposed to be. The container was very easy to open and sign, though I have never seen one of these used for a cache before. LOL - TFTC

Out caching with gracie7 + Mum. It was a quick find. TFTC

My second last find in NZ this trip.

Trackable dropped off

A nice cool walk to the cache on a warm autumn day. Hard to tell what was private land here, and after a few false starts, found the cache.
Hadn't read the description properly, so didn't realise I needed to do some sleight of hand to find the puzzle. Next time!
TFTC.

#3582. A nice little walk. A bit of dithering at GZ, but Troodles soon had cache in hand. TFTC.

No luck in the dark, quick look, but person at window, so could not use torch.-Bitsprayer

Too little light to do the hunt justice tonight
erninz

Found the cache on a lovely fine afternoon. What a magic little spot. This bush area is a lovely feature as a back of the back yard for any of the lovely neighbouring properties.

Nice one. First geocache find for me and Sam. Haven't found other little g one's that we'd looked for

Cool although didnt understand puzzle.

A nice quick find,for me anyway considering it was a Little G Magic cache.Not sure of the puzzle that goes with it but I am sure all will be revelled some time. TFTC. Cheers Bo

Quick find, which was nice, but the Twista took a bit of thinking. I may have to do some research and come back... the final of the series looks to be in true LGM style... HARD! TFTC (624)

Easy find.

Another LittleG. Another muggle. Another DNF . Ah well better luck next time

Had two goes at finding this one, dog on neighboring property was getting noisy! Found trackable home improvement 885T33 Thanks

Easier than we thought it was going to be for a Little G! Left in the dark for the next level though... just happy to sign the log and take the find. Left Home Improvement #1 TB.

At first the GPS was fooled by the trees but once sorted- quick find. Nice spot. TFTC

glad the weather had been nice and dry lately, quick find once we got the spot right, thanks LittleG Magic

Good find by theroamingreliver, tftc

After not succeeding today due to muggles I had to come back. Quick find this time. tftc

First time here to dark and no lights so moved on. Second time here the owner to the bridge turned up with dog just as I was putting jacket into bag and went on to tidy garden so again had to move on. Not sure when I will get a good look for this one.

Our second visit to find this one. May have to try the next level. TFTC

Speedy find once dispute over which direction to enter GZ was the best. TFTC

TFTC. A nice stroll to GZ. My Grandfather used to have something like this and I used to love playing with it. Thanks fo th trip down memory lane.

Flobberworm and Purdiepurdie took the right way. So when I arrived at the location Flobberworm had already the cache in her hands. TFTC

One of several visitors today, TFTC.

Found at a lower level than we expected given the nature of the terrain.

Such a pleasant walk through this park and to the GZ. Thanks for bringing us here.

Did cache but still puzzled.

Ahh was also tripped up by the holes in the ground! Lesson number one: Don't walk & read cache description at the same time ! Cache found easily enough but despite a few flicks & twists, we couldn't see what we were fairly sure we should be seeing. Never mind, Google is our friend . TFTC

3944. Much later in the day, but with the success of Perfect Match still with us, we decided to try our luck on some others as we journeyed home. The first twist occurred when one of us managed to land flat on her face after tripping in one of the many hidden holes on the way in. We recovered from that indignity and soon had the cache in hand and log signed. Now what to do for the second twist. Well we had the picnic table in the boot so back we went to give it a whirl. We now have some notes jotted down so maybe some other time we will give a thought to what we should do next!

Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Surprisingly easy find.Think I know how the trick works but will have to go back. tftc

returned with a bigger board. Got it doing what I think it should have & spotted what I think I needed to...I think. Ha ha ha. Most fun. Onto the puzzle now...when I get a chance!....

Second visit today was muggle free so was able to extend the previous search. Took a while but found eventually. The grass has been cut in the dry creek bed. Liked the container but made no sense of the puzzle bit. TFTC

Was in the area this afternoon. Quick find. Got the flick/twist right but my flat surface wasn't big enough and with my enthusiasm it kept hysterically pinging off into the wilderness. Will return another day with a bigger surface which will hopefully contain it whilst it does it's thing. Most fun. Thanks.

Submitted a new cache to replace Inserta ( Insert'm ) which when it is live will make the puzzle solveable again

Reviewer took out Inserta - so taking out puzzle until it is sorted

Took a bit of hunting to find this one at night. Cheers Gav [10233]

#654: Did the Twist!


First the Hokey Cokey, now the Twist?!?!?! What will LGM think of next? Hopefully not the Mashed Potato... I biked up to this one before work, and had a go. Searched around for a little, because (again) I over-thought the hide. Very nice, quiet area for a search. Signed the log, and puzzled over how exactly I'm supposed to do the twist...may require a return visit. Headed to Inserta after this one, and had less luck, so I'll definitely be back in the area.


SL/TFTC!

Dropped in on my way past. Easily found, but haven't yet got the twist. TFTC.

Had to skip this one in the end as the neighbours were steering at me through their window.

Took off and found the cache with out too much trouble, but the next level has a real twist? Still thinking about that, but happy to sign the log. TFTC.

STF . A reasonable quick find for a little G's cache (less than 5 minutes ). Didn't have an a-ha moment about the ‘very special’ flick/ twist. Will ponder and return if need be. TFTC.

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