GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge The requirements for this challenge is you must have found a dozen (12) months of caches (a years worth) with each day of a selected month all having one of the of the following that can be chosen: [b]Types[/b]: Traditional, Multi's, Puzzle, Virtual, Letterbox, Earth Caches, Wherigo's [b]Rating[/b]: 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0 (Matching D/T values) [b]Size[/b]: Large, Regular, Small, Micro, Other Once the month has been filled that particular type/rating/size it can not be be used again. Also a cache can only be used once whether it be for the type or rating or size. The months can be cumulative over all the years one has been caching, and leap year is not required. Here is an example of qualifications: [code] Month Type/Rating/Size ======== ============= January Micro February Puzzles March 2.0 April 3.0 March Regular May 1.5 June 2.5 July Small August Other September 1.0 October 3.5 November Multi's December Traditional [/code] /forum/read.php?11,57545,57545#msg-57545 Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:39:39 +0000 Phorum 5.2.23 /forum/read.php?11,57545,64040#msg-64040 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,64040#msg-64040 Phil]]> philbeer ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:22:17 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,63535#msg-63535 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,63535#msg-63535
Here is what the reviewer stated:
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The checker does not easily provide info that can help a geocacher work towards completion.

For example, when I run it for my player account, I don't see any mention of Adventure Labs, Wherigos, Multi-caches, puzzles/mysteries, letterboxes, or virtual. I see that it's says I don't have any month with fewer than 10 days to meet the requirements, but that doesn't help me meet those requirements. I think it should show every result regardless of whether there's fewer than 10 days remaining in a month for that requirement or not.

The checker doesn't use each requirement once. It's currently showing me that I can use Traditional Cache for every month of the year - in spite of it being only allowed once for the challenge. What if I want to use something for one month, but the checker is using it for a different month?

Rating: 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.0 (Matching Difficulty or Terrain values but not combined)
What does this mean?? The checker shows D/T1.x (Difficulty and Terrain) for my player account for March - that looks like it's combined doesn't it? Does it include 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5 D & T ratings? It's not clear whether or not you can use both D2.x and T2.x in different months.

When checking your progress, it shows this:

You qualify!
Jan: Small
Feb: D/T4.x
Mar: Other
Apr: Lab Cache
May: Multi-cache
Jun: D/T2.x
Jul: Regular
Aug: D/T3.x
Sep: Unknown Cache
Oct: D/T1.x
Nov: Micro
Dec: Traditional Cache

How is anyone to know whether February, June, August or October is using the D or T rating? Or if it's combining them?

Basically, the requirements need to be rewritten to be crystal clear.
And I think the checker should document what a geocacher needs to do to meet the challenge.
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I know that creating output for all the possible ways that one can work on qualifying for the challenge could run into processing time restrictions. If we cannot output all the modes not completed for each month, then perhaps we could open the window from within 10 days to perhaps 15 or 20 days, and/or ensure that each mode of qualification is listed at least once where one does or does not qualify.

Can we state when qualifications for the D/T that it is a D or T type qualification. ie for me the February month is a D4.x qualification.]]> Adroit Seeker ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Wed, 06 Jul 2022 07:13:50 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,61788#msg-61788 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,61788#msg-61788
I feel that this challenge checker is good.]]> Adroit Seeker ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Wed, 04 May 2022 05:03:23 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,60788#msg-60788 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,60788#msg-60788
Please read https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=127&pgid=206#criteria
Not acceptable
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hese cache page elements: cache titles, cache owner, GC Codes, publishing Reviewer, or cache page text.
]]> vogelbird ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Sun, 10 Apr 2022 10:02:38 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,60782#msg-60782 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,60782#msg-60782 Adroit Seeker ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Sun, 10 Apr 2022 06:35:58 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,60475#msg-60475 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,60475#msg-60475 DrAcorn ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:54:27 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,60471#msg-60471 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,60471#msg-60471 Adroit Seeker ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:04:24 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,60466#msg-60466 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,60466#msg-60466 DrAcorn ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:05:48 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,60448#msg-60448 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,60448#msg-60448
I should be qualifying for my challenge this month and getting close to a list of others who qualify so it should not be long until I get this published.

Thanks once again for all the work you have done putting this together.]]> Adroit Seeker ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Wed, 30 Mar 2022 05:51:51 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,59510#msg-59510 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,59510#msg-59510 DrAcorn ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:34:51 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,59504#msg-59504 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,59504#msg-59504
The challenge checker appears to be working, based on who I have ran it against - still trying to find others who qualify and getting some that are close, to work on getting qualified.

One last thing that I think others will like, is even after one qualifies for this can we still display other types that are within the 10 day threshold so that people could use it to see what other types that can continue to fill/work post qualifications.

Cheers, Adroit Seeker]]> Adroit Seeker ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Mon, 28 Feb 2022 06:54:01 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,59327#msg-59327 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,59327#msg-59327 DrAcorn ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:18:43 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,59326#msg-59326 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,59326#msg-59326
There are a hand full of people in the area that area "relatively" close to completion, and I am working with them to complete the requirements (also myself, which I should be also soon done) once I have an adequate pool of members who qualify I can be more certain that it is working correctly.

So far the only item which is incorrect is the sentence that says the number of months that have less than X days to go is saying 5 days when I think it is displaying 10 days

This is the line that I think needs to say 10 days:

"Here are the values for each month that you have less than 5 days to go for:"]]> Adroit Seeker ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Tue, 22 Feb 2022 07:52:50 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58896#msg-58896 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58896#msg-58896 DrAcorn ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:25:09 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58887#msg-58887 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58887#msg-58887 However the checker is locked - not sure if your currently working on it or forgot to unlock it.]]> Adroit Seeker ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Mon, 07 Feb 2022 04:18:13 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58882#msg-58882 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58882#msg-58882 I have now updated it to take this into account, hopefully this works for you now.]]> DrAcorn ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Sun, 06 Feb 2022 21:23:07 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58707#msg-58707 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58707#msg-58707
However the DT is still not correct.

When qualifying one can only use either a D or T of the same rating

Looking at my qualifications (current checker)

You qualify!
Jan: Small
Feb: T2.x
Mar: Regular
Apr: D3.x
May: D2.x
Jun: Multi-cache
Jul: Micro
Aug: Unknown Cache
Sep: Traditional Cache
Oct: Other
Nov: T3.x
Dec: T1.x

I can use either Feb: T2.x or May D2.x but not both (same for the Apr: D3.x and Nov: T3.x only can use one of these).

What I was referring to in my last message is on the months where I did not meet the DT requirements I always did not qualify on the same day(s) for the same DT rating. Which I find hard to believe is true.]]> Adroit Seeker ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Thu, 03 Feb 2022 07:01:22 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58700#msg-58700 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58700#msg-58700 I have now included lab caches for you.
I reverted a few changes that I think were wrong, from my understanding, the only thing that is wrong now is that the checker still lets you qualify with T3 and D3 for different months, for example. can you check this to make sure I'm understanding and i'll correct it.]]> DrAcorn ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:11:49 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58438#msg-58438 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58438#msg-58438
For example I need on Feb 24 either a D 3.x/anything or a T 3.x/anything which then I would qualify for a T3.x and a D3.x
and for Feb 5,12,13,14,16,17,18,20,22,23 I also only need a D 4.x/anything or a T 4.x/anything which then I would qualify for a T4.x and a D4.x

I would expect to see different days for the D3.x over the T3.x and the same for T4.x over the D4.x

Some months I would qualify for one of he DT but not for both.

Also we can add Adventure Labs to the cache types - people should be able to use these also for a qualification option.]]> Adroit Seeker ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Sat, 29 Jan 2022 23:27:08 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58405#msg-58405 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58405#msg-58405 DrAcorn ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Sat, 29 Jan 2022 15:36:21 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58396#msg-58396 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58396#msg-58396
Caches of D/T 3.0/4.5, 3.5/1.0, 3.0/2.0, 3.0/3.0... (for the month) would qualify for a DT=3.x
or
Caches of D/T 1.5/3.0, 2.0/3.5, 1.0/3.0, 4.0/3.0, 3.5/3.0 ... (for the month) would also qualify for a DT=3.x
however
Caches of DT 3.0/1.0, 2.5/3.0 would not qualify since neither all the D or T ratings are in the 3.x range.

so all the D or T for the month have to have the 3.x rating to qualify. Once the DT=3.x is used for a month it can not be used for any other month in order to complete the challenge qualifications

Hope this clarifies it, if not let me know.]]> Adroit Seeker ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:18:09 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58388#msg-58388 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58388#msg-58388 DrAcorn ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:48:15 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58365#msg-58365 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58365#msg-58365
I just realized that I forgot a size of "Not Chosen" to be included in the list of other size allowed.

Not sure but it does not look like it is in the list - which is my bad cause I completely forgot it.

If we add it to the list it will help with the qualifications.

I think however in order to increase the number of people that will qualify (or soon able to) that the DT criteria needs to be relaxed a bit, however not too much.

So here we go ....

The DT of 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x each can only be used once for any of the 12 months but the qualifications is changed.
You now can have a month of DT=1.x where either all the Difficulty is either 1.0 or 1.5 and the Terrain can be any value or all the Terrain is either 1.0 or 1.5 and the Difficulty can be any value. Same qualification for 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x which I think will enable more people to qualify in the higher 3.x and 4.x and possible the 5.x

This change along with the addition of the "Not Chosen" size should enable enough people to qualify. So this should be close to completion. Hopefully the changes are clear, however let me know if you have any questions.

Oh and so everyone knows if I don't qualify for my own challenge , I will make it my challenge to get myself qualified as soon as possible. However I suspect with the above changes that I will now qualify. I hope :-)]]> Adroit Seeker ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Fri, 28 Jan 2022 07:27:40 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58351#msg-58351 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58351#msg-58351 You don't meet the current challenge conditions...
Phil]]> philbeer ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Thu, 27 Jan 2022 20:47:08 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58346#msg-58346 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58346#msg-58346 philbeer
2 Sonians
KennyV
leeny_c

so I couldn't get one published here :(
Phil]]> philbeer ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Thu, 27 Jan 2022 20:06:36 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58342#msg-58342 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58342#msg-58342 DrAcorn ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:09:19 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58339#msg-58339 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58339#msg-58339
In the meantime is it possible to change for those who do not qualify display from 5 to 10 as it will help me to determine if I am to loosen the challenge how I might go about it while still making it a good challenge.

In our area people like a good challenge and the challenges I have done in the past are all doable without having to travel to complete yet most people do not initially qualify giving the local veterans a challenge to work towards (albeit not as much as a newbie would have), but I have been asked by many when my next challenge will be coming out as they are looking for something to work on.

So although I know I have to ensure that the challenge can be obtained by 10 locals I can and will get 10 people to qualify for it.

Having the display for more than 5 would help me to tweak this challenge or help in getting the 10 locals to qualify.

I know that creating this checker in itself has been a challenge and I do very much appreciate it - we are very close to having it done.

Cheers!]]> Adroit Seeker ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:59:38 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58300#msg-58300 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58300#msg-58300 vogelbird ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:53:45 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58299#msg-58299 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58299#msg-58299 You're right that now you don't yet qualify.]]> DrAcorn ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:59:00 +0000 /forum/read.php?11,57545,58294#msg-58294 Re: GC9G6FC - A Geocachers Dozen - Challenge /forum/read.php?11,57545,58294#msg-58294
Just want to confirm a couple of items since I can not see any of the raw details to confirm it is working correctly.

Are you using my first criteria where the D/T all have to have the same rating 1.5/1.5 to qualify for D/T 1.5?

I thought when you did this that I did not qualify (not sure how close I was)?

Was there a logic flaw in the script that has now been fixed which now shows that I do qualify under my initial request?

If you are using the original request - then perhaps the challenge is not as challenging as I was hoping for and perhaps we could go with one additional change which is that when qualifying for the one D/T rating (IE: D/T 1.5 - where all the caches in the month have the D/T of 1.5/1.5) then the D/T 1.0 would not be available to use in another month. This means that for any given months the D/T of 1.x can be only be used once. So where where I qualify for D/T 1.0 for one month and D/T 1.5 in another month this would not be allowed and the D/T's that one can use for the months in the year are just 5 (D/T 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x)

Which I expect that 80% of the people who qualify would end up having 4 types, 4 sizes and 4 D/T's

I expect that I will not qualify for this (which is okay - it gives me something to focus on and complete before I can publish the challenge), but I would like to see how close I am to qualifying.

Thanks again for all your effort working on this script and helping me make it a really good challenge.]]> Adroit Seeker ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed) Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:18:58 +0000