Surprise Benefit for GC8HM55 Windsor Gardens, South Australia, Australia
By bgmat on 02-Dec-20. Waypoint GC93DDZ

A feeling of deja vu here but I could be wrongQuickly found and log stamped TFTC

We solved this a while ago but do not come this way often enough to "clean up" our solutions in the area. We did however plan to grab a specific cache this afternoon and this was on our way there, hence a quick stop was made. A nice hide and an easy find on a beautiful, quiet Sunday afternoon TNLNSL TFTC

I didnt attend the event mentioned in this cache description, but I was caching with someone who was there. Once I got home after a day of caching I solved the sudoku. In fact in the last couple of sprays I have solved a number of sudokus We jumped to conclusions as to where this cache was hiding, but we soon realised we were in the wrong spot and shortly located its hiding spot! TFTC bgmatKeep smiling

Out and about with Hellyonfire and we grabbed this one today as we drove through the area. TFTC

Out doing my two favourite things Driving and caching with my geosister H432LFrom tumby bay doing some Adelaide caches before and after the big 2024 LEAP Year Mega in S. A event Quick couple before driving back to Tumby Coordinate Accuracy: excellent Cache Condition: excellent Took: nothing Left: nothing TFTC

Finally time to be in Adelaide and we arrived a few days early. We set up camp in Walkerville and settled in for a few days.Today we joined forces with Robmc and headed away from the city on the bikes. A day of mixed fortunes but this was one of our successful finds.The puzzle was quite a challenge but the find was rewarding.A beautiful day to be out riding along here. Thanks for showing us the sights.

I'm afraid we did not attend the event, so we had some work to do.Fortunately the find was a lot easier.Back to the trail.Thanks, Robmc.

Out for a long stroll today, along the linear park, and I zipped off my route, just long enough to find this one.I could not seem to find the correct solution to the puzzle, and reached out to multiple parties. So thanks to all who helped. In my case, it obviously takes a village.TFTC.

I must have solved this one eons ago. Just checking my notes, and seems there was three possible solutions with one coming up trumps. Thanks for the great puzzle bgmat. Today I had some time before the event and swung by here for a quick find and sign. Cache in great condition, plenty of room on the logsheet/book. Thanks for the puzzle and the hide, find #9281 at 10.03am

Worked out a solution to the sudoku but it didn't give me the correct coordinates.

Tftc

The puzzle has been solved in February 2022, about one year ago. It was not difficult.
Unfortunately, I missed the event GC8HM55 "Community Celebration Event: bgmat Pub Lunch".
Today, since I was in the area, I tried this cache.
It was a classic hide. Found the cache in the second place I checked.
Cache container is in good condition.
Signed the log book, and place the cache back.
Thanks for the puzzle and the cache, bgmat.

Didn’t have much difficulty solving the puzzle, dropped past today to make the find. Found in the obvious spot here once at GZ. Cache in good condition for its age. Cheers.

Find #4732 on 10 Dec 2022.
TFTC bgmat!

Another adventure in the big smoke with Mattycat mainly northern and northeastern areas today , a great day and only one DNF and bonus lab adventure done,we enjoy a sudoko doing the daily puzzle every day so this was a walk in the park, a quick solve and collected GZ for the smilie
TFTC bgmat

Found

Hadcto resortvto paf after co ords did not check but turned out ok.
Remember something at xmas event mentioned about co ords.
Cache all ok.
TFTC

I visited this cache with bektheraccoon, TFTC

I visited this cache with bektheraccoon, TFTC

Wow, took me 3 solves of this sudoku to get a thumbs up from the checker. In the end, I used the hint and then made a logical leap for the likely F8 and F9 values. Whew! Now, to go find it

And what's more - I was standing at GZ with Moxie yesterday and didn't know it...!

It appears the only way to get this one IS to have attended the event. After two hours and two different solutions neither give me a valid set of coordinates. [:-(]

Yay! After the puzzle solving fun I was wondering what would await at GZ, but luckily this was a nice and straightforward hide and I had it in my hands (paws? ) In no time. Thanks for the cache

Driving home from a few hours caching up north I saw this one on the radar. A surprise benefit indeed for being in the right area.
Plus only a 5 minute drive to the Dutch pantry on O.G. road for some well earned chips with satay sauce was another surprise benefit!

Tftc Bgmat

Found It!
Unfortunately I didn't make it to GC8HM55. Sometime later I sat down to solve this puzzle and soon had a plausible solution to the Sudoku. But the checker said no. After an email to the CO, it turns out that the solution I found was not the solution he had, even though I had followed the hint. How many different solutions are there I wonder? Anyhow, once I had one that the checker agreed with, I went to GZ and soon found the cache!
TFTC

Fun find with the boys on Fathers Day. Picked up TB. Thanks.

In the area with SupaTurtle and Csaba!. Tra La Laaa

Fun on Fathers Day. Turtle Out

I was at the event and thought I'll leave the puzzle for another day.

Little did i know.

Fast forward to this morning.

A short detour on the way to work had this one in hand.

Tftc

Only one of the three goals from last year achieved. So once again trying and fill my calendar with multi-caches and complete loop 11 again this year. [^] For my third goal I will try and get my DNF numbers to single digits. That should keep me busy again this year! [:o)]

Another Wednesday wander with just S.A. sewer Rats today. Today was about finding some DNF's and whatever else we could find in between them. I wasn't lucky enough to go to the listed event so it was suduko time. Ten solutions had to be tried before the solution checker smiled. Luckily the cache was easier to find. Dropped in a TB [:X]

***Thanks bgmat for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Today before the puzzle solving event in Campbelltown I stopped by a few caches along my way.

I was there at the event when this was handed out so had a solution quite quickly for this puzzle, stopped by GZ today and cache was easily found and is all good

TFTC

Sudoku solved a few times before I got a set of numbers that worked.

At GZ, the cache was found after a short search. Very bold and clever to hide a cache of this size here.

Cache is clean, dry and in good condition.

Thanks for the cache bgmat.
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I was lucky enough to be at the event when this sudoku was passed out and we all set about solving it. So there it has sat in my to be found pile waiting for a suitable time to come and find the cache. [^]

Today after an early morning event not too far away I decided to come here to find the cache and put my stamp[ in the log. Cache was found eventually after looking in all the wrong places first.

Thanks for the puzzle and cache bgmat.

I had time to fill in this afternoon while I was waiting for some work to be done on my car, so I went for a walk around Windsor Gardens, finding this cache along the way.

I didn’t have a pen and there wasn’t one in the cache container, but fortunately I spotted a pencil on the ground nearby.

Thanks bgmat for the puzzle and the cache.

While the weather was a bit cooler today I headed out to grab a few caches in the north eastern suburbs. A nice mix of trads, puzzles, multis and labs were found. All caches (bar one) were in good condition. TFTC

Rocked up to work this morning and it was all locked up like Fort Knox.
As I solved this one recently, I decided to go off and do a bit of Geocache Hunting, had a fairly good idea where to look.
Was in the second and last place I looked.
Thanks bgmat.
TFTC TNLN

Found during a caching tour of the northern suburbs. Had a definite advantage in having attended the event so it was a quick solve but had to wait for being in the area for the find. Thanks for the puzzle and cache bgmat!

Well we made it to the end of 2020 and had a couple of little caching goals to round off [:o)]

Purrfect Di said let's go caching straight after work... that's why she's perfect

So off we went, over the hills, and thataway...

We came across your cache bgmat , and it gave us joy this New Year's Eve.

Caching seemed so much safer than mixing it up with the crowds

Never went to the event. Well that sucked. Even with high tech sudoku help.
But eventually found the right numbers. Had NYE dinner nearby and came to claim the cache!

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Happy 7th distanced day of Christmas! Avoid germs - avoid people - cache the regions !


Bring on #2020won A Happy New Year ahead. But still not much has changed really so take care

What a wonderful surprise. Lovely. Thanks. The cache was found in the first and last place we looked. Thanks for placing a fun cache guys. We do love your work. We signed the logbook. Of course we did that is way we play this game. Cache in pretty good condition for the cache age.

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Easter 2020 was supposed to see South Australia Geocaching hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Due to COVID restrictions the event is now postponed to early October 2021. Check out the event page and our website for new details. We would love to see you at this four day event. Mega event sponsored by Wattle Range Council, Geocaching.com and many other supporters. Lots of caches to find with two classic geo art trails including the famous animated bottle and glass.

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This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

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A quick find with a Rat on this our last Wednesday wanderings before the big man in red arrives. Thankyou for the cache bgmat found 23 December 2020 15:29

A quick easy solve.
The adder and Rat quickly spied the cache.
The hardest part was returning the cache in between fast paced muggles. Tftc

I was at the event and came up with one of the 19 answers for this sudoku. Mine won me a prize, but was one of the 9 “wrong” answers.

With a bit of brute force later on, the “correct” solution made solving this puzzle easy.

A nice quick find at GZ of a good sized container. Took a TB to move on.

Thanks for the cache bgmat.
Found on 22/12/20 at 18:25.
Find #12333.

I remember attending [GC8HM55: Community Celebration Event: bgmat Pub Lunch](https://coord.info/GC8HM55), and getting copies of this sudoku. All of my automated solvers indicated many solutions (non-unique), and so after checking with the CO, my solution was not right. I was told that there was something unique, but in the end, I don't think anyone managed to get the same answer version that the CO was holding. So perhaps a little tougher than just 2.5 difficulty?

This afternoon after work, I decided to head north-east, spending time in Gilles Plains and Modbury. With limited time left in Adelaide, I tried to concentrate on the higher D-T geocaches, but otherwise making stops at any other caches along the way. As my outing approached dinner time, I decided to then return home.

I was in the area of this cache today, and so I thought I would make a stop to have a hunt for this geocache. The cache took a little to find, and I was even close to making a PAF, so a nice hide indeed. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. I dropped a TB within the cache, but then grabbed a new TB. Thanks bgmat for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Always like a good number puzzle. This one had me for a few goes but figured what a couple of numbers had to be. Almost missed the good hide in the end.

TFTC from ImSue

This one had me tricked. I am the first to admit I did not do this manually like you normally do. I used a solver. Tricky little sucker but thanks to the solver, the solution(s) presented themselves. Only one set of numbers made sense so in the end it's not that hard if you do it the new easy way!! CO let me know if this is a spoiler log and I'll amend!

Thanks to bgmat and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

I think the difficulty stars will have to go up a lot more for those without the solution from the lunch event.
This cannot be solved logically by hand, anyone who does would've taken a leap of faith(guess) to solve it. Proof of that was the numerous different solutions being bandied around to claim an unclaimable prize... lol
Solving online, or with app may throw up as many as 31 different solves... lol
A quick find in the dark.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Owl was having lunch at her aunt's place and then had a couple of hours to kill before an appointment. Fortunately there was a cache just around the corner and this started a series of jumps to the appointment. Having won the prize for first hand-done incorrect correct solution at the event, owl was happy to leave the other prizes for fellow guests. But she did leave a TB found just before the event for another guest. Thanks for the fun! Bronze was a nice bonus.

These early morning events sure make for more caching time
Today I had to take muggle partner's belongings back to Morphett Vale as he can't fit them all on his bike[^]
So Rex and I attended the 1st event, For the Early Birds! #26, then raced to Morphett Vale, dropped off the gear[^] and found a few caches[^] (including a SFE Challenge cache at Woodcroft that has been bothering me for some time) before MIL was awake[|)] and then later went back to put the gear inside the house as it was too heavy for her[^][^]
Then it was back into town for the 2nd event, Community Celebration Event: bgmat Pub Lunch, and after that we headed off to ttrog's place New caches got published so we went for a drive and found a couple of caches around Windsor Gardens[^] As did Brad&Janet and Hurtle
2 events attended and 5 cache finds made 7 smilies for the day

Shifting kombucha[?] Easy to do but it takes time
Those few minutes costs us dearly as got to the cache just after B&J had left
Then Hurtle arrived and then B&J came back and then we all left[^]

TNLN. SL. TFTC bgmat

Was at home, recuperating, expecting locus sometime. Was attempting a solve on a local puzzle when she turned up. Combine efforts but were getting nowhere when another puzzle appeared, again quite close, and with better intel locus swapped to this one and soon had the needed co-ords. After doing some lifting I was not up to yet we headed off to GZ to score silver, 6 minutes after gold. I think the lifting, if not actually costing us gold, at least stopped us from getting there while gold was still present. Wasn't long before 4 caching teams were represented at GZ, after the obligatory chat we all went our almost separate ways.
Thanks bgmat for getting me out for another smilie.

Spoiler alert: It may help to try B4=4 and D7=3 if you are seeking a unique solution.

Published

Brad had been to a very pleasant GC8HM55 community celebration event today.
Like the rest of those there he received a heads-up that a bonus cache would be published later after the event had finished. He was also given a sudoku to solve. However it seemed there was more than one valid solution but the CO was happy to show the attendees which was the correct solution required.
This did give all attendees a bit of a head start.
Brad has retruned home and was attempting to solve a new Freddo puzzle when he noticed this one had also been published. A solution was found and a decison made to drive to GZ although he knew a number of attendees lived closer.
At GZ the mass of spider webs surrounding the cache suggested there had not been an earlier vistor today and sure enough the log was empty. Woohoo!
Signed and all returned as found.
No sign of any other cachers yet so Brad decided to head off to collect another long solved puzzle cache from nearby.
After completing and logging that one he drove back past this one to see hurtle, ttrogg, and locus cache all either standing near GZ or in their cars. Presumably the podium has been filled.
A brief chat was interrupted by a passing truck which needed us to move our haphazardly parked cars. And so it was time to move on.
Thanks for the Community Celebration, and for this cache and the other nearby cache bgmat

*FTF* at 1456 on 14 December 2020