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Hello.  I need help to make a Challeng checks for my new "Chalenger 5x5" This checker must

involves: find cache in five states in one day, 5 different types of cache in a day, 5 mystery (or puzzle) on a day, 5 Traditional Geocache in a day, and five “Norgesboksen 50 Cacher” in a day (GC50WVR). All these five challenges can be done on different days, but is not allowed to use a GC code on more than a challenge.

Is this possible? M&M-NOR
in Miscellaneous by M&M-NOR (120 points)
A few comments.
1) It is technically possible.
2) "is not allowed to use a GC code on more than a challenge" makes it a lot harder since it becomes a bit recursive.
3) Logging 5 caches in a specific series is more or less against the guidelines (https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=206 See rule 3.1). But your challenge is published, so not your problem.
4) Logging specific caches requires a way for Project-GC to find them. A list of gc-codes is one variant. Another variant is that there exists a bookmark list of them. A bookmark list is probably the preferred way, but it should be own by someone one knows doesn't remove it at some point. Then the checker will fail, or more likely (depending on the script creator), will always return that the requirement isn't fulfilled. This since it's hard to log five of zero geocaches.
What this is is five challenges in one.  There are already checker scripts for each of the individual challenges, but what you want is to combine those five challenges.  It would be a nice feature for a future version of Project-GC to be able to have a feature whereby scripts could invoke other scripts.  Setting aside the requirement of than not being allowed to use the same find for multiple challenges, this may be doable, in a future version, if ganja1447 agrees.

For now, it is certainly doable, but it's quite a bit of work to write such a script for just one challenge cache.  It would be a bunch of work, and odds are the script would not be much reusable for any other challenge caches because odds of someone else coming up with a similar 5x5 combination are low.  In the time it takes to write a script for this one, a developer can instead write a script that is much more generic and would serve many more caches.
I cant find the published challenge so you might have a problem with the 5 caches in the “Norgesboksen 50 Cacher” series requirement
I have made a combination checker that cant do most thing. Bookmark check is not yet implemented but is not hard and I am not sure if number of states in a day is possible but it is easy to do. With the exception of reuse of GC codes

To check for all possible ways of reuse is hard to do both cpu time wise and writing code. To do that custom code for this challenge is most likey required. To check this is a case that is easier for a human then for a computer in most cases.
Another problem it that that it is not a fun problem to solve. Other checkers with similar programming challenges are cleaner problem that are more fun to solve like http://coord.info/GC5CR9B

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