Siffror - 12/7/17

A numbers puzzle from the Swedish calendar cache today:

Siffror I

Is anybody else keeping up with the current year's version of the calendar?  I've found them to be a fun challenge so far. I'd love to do one like this around here if I thought I could get any takers.

Tomorrow our journeys will take us to Vietnam.

Cachemas Gnomes - 12/6/17

Today's Swedish puzzle involves some Cachemas gnomes:


Notknackarkalendern 2011-10 Cachemas Gnomes

This cache is archived, and you'll notice the new banner with the log from when it was archived up at the top ... yet another change to the website.  It sounds like they've changed up the cache page creation experience as well, including taking away the "related web page" link.  That's too bad.  But the new "archived" banner did remind me of a useful tool that someone passed along a while back and I don't think I've shared it here.  You can use this link to:


Search for Archived Caches

Tomorrow we'll visit puzzle #7 on our December caching calendar.

Connecting People - 12/5/17

Today our Swedish calendar puzzle takes us to Luxembourg where we're:

Connecting People

Tomorrow ... day 6.

Kissemissar - 12/4/17

Today's puzzle from the Swedish puzzle calendar cache may look familiar.  It's based on a California puzzle I featured here a while back, and was lucky enough to actually make the find for last summer.  I hadn't saved all of my work for the original, however, so I had fun doing it all over again:

Kissemissar

Upon checking the other day, I found an all-new version of the calendar cache for 2017.  While it sounds like they had to put in a back-door to make it somehow solvable upon publication, the puzzles are appearing daily, and I've had fun looking at them so far (be warned that google translate could use some work on its Swedish).  Why not play along with:

Wexio Christmas Calendar 2017

Tomorrow ... day 5.

Shonky? - 12/3/17

Today's puzzle is similar to some I've featured here before, but with its own regional twist.  This 4th entry for our December calendar of caches takes us to Australia and:

A Shonky Numbers Game

Tomorrow ... day 4.

When in Rome - 12/2/17

Day 2 of our December series has us visiting a puzzle that is part of a series from Canada's province of Nova Scotia that I first featured way back in 2011.  If you haven't taken a trip down "Puzzle Street" in the past, you may as well start here:

PS24: When in Rome... ?

Tomorrow:  Day 3 takes us to Australia.

Lycka till! - 12/1/17

Well, we've made it to the last month of the year.  December 1st is a big day around here since it's my son's birthday, but it was also always an exciting day for me growing up.  My mother would haul the huge old record player upstairs and play a stack of Christmas LP's for us that night when we went to sleep.  The stack would get flipped over the following night, and then every night until Christmas. Opening the first little window on our advent calendar was another real treat that day.  My sister got the odd days, and I got the even ones ... so she always got to go first. 

Last December I came across a holiday puzzle-a-day series in Sweden. It was one mega-puzzle (in the style of a "master of mystery" cache) but it took 24 days for the whole thing to be revealed - a new puzzle appeared each day, and you had to solve all 24 of them to get the information required to find the cache.  The puzzles are not all holiday related and are not all found in Sweden. I may end up switching around or replacing a few of them, but I thought it would be a fun series to share with you here this month ... naturally, just one day at a time.  I wish you "Lycka till!" with this first entry:

Anders slaskar, julen braskar

Tomorrow, day 2.