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New to creating puzzles

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I am very new to creating puzzles. I have created a puzzle for a new series that I have come up with. I would love to get some input from some more experienced cachers on the difficulty rating for this puzzle. Please send me a message here on the boards, or you can send me an email if you would like to help me out bdyoung8 at gmail dot com.
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Hope a bunch of our more experienced Blue Squiggly solvers have e-mailed you.
Many of us aren't good at solving them, and only a few truly are.

I.E. We send roadkill $10 a month just to not laugh at our epic fails.
And that's not even for hints.
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A far better use of $10 per month is to subscribe to Keystone's Puzzle Solving Service. Subscribers receive the actual cache location coordinates for all new puzzle caches in their 25 mile home radius, about a week after publication so as not to look too obvious. For $20 per month the home radius doubles to 50 miles (Michigan and Indiana excluded, of course - you need to pay the reviewer there separately).

A far better use of $20 per month is to subscribe to Keystone's Puzzle Preservation Service. Subscribers to this service receive a guarantee that their hidden puzzle caches will not be included in the weekly mailers sent to the subscribers to Keystone's Puzzle Solving Service.

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cheech gang may be more popular today at the M&E than usual.
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KeystoneGC wrote: Michigan and Indiana excluded,
If Lenawee county is not included, I would be best to spend my money elsewhere. :blowup:
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Handyman-N-Fam wrote:
KeystoneGC wrote: Michigan and Indiana excluded,
If Lenawee county is not included, I would be best to spend my money elsewhere. :blowup:
Convenient that for Lenawee County, you have two Michigan Reviewer's territories intersecting. So you must pay for both of their services....now the question for the western half is if you can get a better rate from Mike or Rhen.
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In Lenawee I some times wonder if the left hand communicates with the right hand.

OH and where can I get a Lenawee coordinate chip I lent mine out and it never came back.
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Add the two Indiana reviewers into the mix for those of us along the tri-state border, and we can save big money by choosing to skip puzzles :)
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Roadkill will put out another level 5 puzzle soon if I don't get my 10 dollars. :twisted:
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Team_Maltese wrote:Add the two Indiana reviewers into the mix for those of us along the tri-state border, and we can save big money by choosing to skip puzzles :)
You guys mean to skip puzzles, or Skrip puzzles.
At least we usually feel we have a shot at those. :P
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Me thinks Skrip and corixid puZZles in Lenawee provide many hours of head scratching during January and February.
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Handyman-N-Fam wrote: If Lenawee county is not included, I would be best to spend my money elsewhere. :blowup:
Well...Lenawee County's premium just got a bit easier...it now falls fully into the territory of Michigan's newest reviewer, -Vanman- (US24 to Hillsdale/Branch county line). Now I bet the puzzle-meizers will give him a bit of a shock at first with the Lenawee culture.
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