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GeoOldham

[Resolved] Geocache name
August 10, 2019 01:07PM

Registered: 6 years ago
Posts: 11

Is there a checker for caches found starting with your geocache name within a time period.

I would like to know if I meet the requirements for GC5EV36, with out trawling through 6000 logs?

Requirements “to find your caching name (geooldham) within 24 hours”?

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5EV36_the-challenge-that-jack-set?guid=38d82d59-5ba2-4c93-9657-5eb273e14f3a

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Oneforfortytwo

Re: Geocache name
August 12, 2019 09:49AM

Registered: 5 years ago
Posts: 60

Here is a checker for the challenge:

https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5EV36/44388

It says that you do not qualify, though it seems from your note on the cache page that you already knew that.

Also, I believe that this should have gone in the "Checker requests" forum.

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GeoOldham

Re: Geocache name
August 12, 2019 10:07AM

Registered: 6 years ago
Posts: 11

Thanks for that, did not know I could request a checker for a cache I don’t own.

I worked it out the hard way manually with excel and vlookups.

Heather

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GeoOldham

Re: Geocache name
August 12, 2019 10:10AM

Registered: 6 years ago
Posts: 11

Tested it out on a few cachers names, not quite certain if it excludes special characters, tried a hyphenated name and it failed the checker (ed-don), but I am sure he would have got those five simple letters in a day (have not extracted all his logs and checked)

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Oneforfortytwo

Re: Geocache name
August 12, 2019 03:58PM

Registered: 5 years ago
Posts: 60

I added some special character exemptions to the checker. Tried it out on some previous finders of the cache, and it seems to work ok. Though, surprisingly, ed-don still does not seem to qualify.