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March 22, 2021

March 2021 GOTM Winners

March has certainly been a month of innovation! We kicked things off with the new Bee Evolutions in MunzPaks, followed soon after by Reseller Garden Gnomes! As socially-distanced events are starting to pick up again, we launched some new March into May Event options, which are perfect for adding the charm of Spring to the map!

Speaking of events, we had something to celebrate almost every week! First was real-life Lou’s #ChooseToChallenge campaign with limited-time Fancy Flat Lou scatters and badges! Next, part 1 of Roverhaul was delivered in our Jewel Day 2021 event. Currently our St. Patrick’s day event is underway, which saw the re-release of the Virtual Shamrock, new Greeting Cards, and ways to earn Zeds from Zee Folk and Leprechauns.

We are now happy to announce the winners of the March Gardens of the Month (GOTM)! The badges will be awarded in early April, but we couldn’t wait to share the winners we’ve chosen!

March GOTM

It’s rare for a month to have 2 gardens which highlight our different releases so well — it just goes to show you that any design can have its time to shine, so don’t hesitate to let us know about completed gardens you enjoy! Remember that all winning GOTM organizers and all players who deployed in the winning gardens will be awarded special badges for their contribution to growing the map. This month we’re happy to award the Laidley Bee Love Garden, designed by BonnieB1, and the Lou [and Rob]-Feld Garden, designed by paupau, as our winning March GOTM! The gardens appear as follows:

Laidley Bee Love by BonnieB1 in Queensland, Australia

BonnieB1 does it again with this sweet design! We especially love her use of Carnation and Field Evos!

While this garden was submitted in February since it was created with Valentine’s Day in mind, we wanted to save it for this month as it was the debut of our Bee Evolutions!

Lou [and Rob]-Feld by paupau in Bielefeld, Germany

It can be hard to make silhouettes recognizable, but paupau did a great job with Flat Lou’s shape, assisted with monochrome virtuals for her helmet and bike.

This winner was another no-brainer as it reminded us of the limited-time Fancy Flat Lou scatters, and the theme of women and their accomplishments overall.

All players who deployed in the respective winning gardens will receive the following special badges:

Rules for GOTM nominations:

Garden must feature non-licensed character designs.
The garden must feature a Garden Places Pin.
The garden must be built using a publicly available spreadsheet which we will ask to be locked after being 100% deployed.
We’re asking for ongoing nominations and we will release the winners throughout the year.

Send your nomination for GOTM to iloveyou@munzee.com! Keep in mind that we take all former nominations into consideration for upcoming months. Just be sure your garden follows the nomination rules in order to be considered eligible!

If you need help deploying in a Virtual Garden, you can check out this step-by-step tutorial that will making deploying in a garden easy no matter how long you’ve been playing. To fill in the gardens, make sure to stock up on Virtuals and Color Credits from the Freeze Tag Online Store.

Munzee on!

P.S. Are you looking for POTM requirements? Remember that last year, we announced that we were holding off on POTM for now as we develop a new way to highlight our unique player base!

March 17, 2021

Keep Your Eyes Peeled for Zee Folk and Leprechauns!

As promised at the start of the week, we have some more St. Patrick’s-day themed fun for you to enjoy all the way through the end of the month! Keep an eye out for these little green men — they will be hard to spot, but you may find your pockets a little heavier after an encounter! And no, they’re not aliens — or are they?

Zee Folk Details

Starting at 12:00 MHQ today, Zee Folk specials will bounce around the map until 23:59 MHQ on March 31st.

Only 17 Zee Folk specials will be available to cap! They will bounce around every 4 hours or when capped. Zee Folk will appear on the following landing pads:

Greenies
Physical Shamrocks
Virtual Shamrocks
Flat Rob
Flat Lou
Green-colored Virtuals:
- Virtual Sea Green
- Virtual Granny Smith Apple
- Virtual Green
- Virtual Forest Green
- Virtual Asparagus
- Virtual Olive Green
- Virtual Yellow Green
- Virtual Green Yellow
- Virtual Spring Green

As these specials are so rare, they will be worth 1,000 points for the Capture and 50 points for the CapOn! You definitely don’t want to miss out! They will be attracted to Magnets. To access these specials, please turn on your “All Expiring Specials” and “All Limited Edition Specials” filters.

When you capture a Zee Folk special, there is a chance that you will earn 17 Zeds! The popup that appears after you’ve captured a Zee Folk will let you know if you’ve earned any, so make sure to keep an eye out! You will also find them on your credits list.

There are 3 badges you can earn for capturing Zee Folk. You can check out the first below!

Flat Hatter- Capture one Zee Folk Munzee.

Limited Time Scatter Details

For the same period as Zee Folk activity, when you capture a Leprechaun or Leprechaun Variant, up to 3 Colored Zeds may be scattered nearby! These are the same Colored Zeds that scattered out of Rainbow Trails last year!

: Leprechaun

: Goblin Leprechaun

If you don’t own any Leprechauns, or would like to own more, you can pick them up in the store HERE! Remember that as of the Cyclops and Nymph Variant release last year, you can purchase multiples of the same myth! For a detailed explanation of how that works, refer to the blog post HERE!

Like last year, Colored Zeds will stay on the map for 1 hour or when captured. Each will award 100 points AND potentially a small number of Zeds to your account! We thought this would be a fun way to accumulate some extra currency to go towards Magnets, Secret ZeeOps, or whatever you want!

For more information about Leprechauns and their variants, check out our Help Guide articles HERE and HERE!

Munzee on!

March 15, 2021

Start Your St. Patrick’s Day Preparations!

We did it — we’ve survived a year of staying safe at home! While things are looking up, we must remain diligent in our efforts to stay safe — but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate a little with some virtual fun! St. Patrick’s Day lends itself so well to Munzee due to its symbolic color of green, so this announcement is just the beginning — expect more in the days to come!

You can shop the whole collection HERE!

First, we are happy to announce 3 NEW Greeting Cards are available for purchase! You can pick up Greeting Cards from the Freeze Tag Online Store HERE. You receive multiple munzees from your single purchase. Read the details in the store, or see below.

: Green Cheers Card

: Kiss Me I’m Irish Card

: Lucky Charm Card

NEW Greeting Card Munzee Details

We have 3 new Limited Edition cards for your deploying pleasure!

Make friends and family both near and far feel the luck of the Irish with St. Patrick’s Day Cards!

Don’t forget to edit the title and the notes to add a personal touch! While the capture message will contain your Munzee username as all Greeting Card capture messages do, we think typing in a more specific note will go a long way to creating a more unique and special experience!

This brings the current lineup of Greeting Cards available for purchase to the following:

Open Edition (will always be available; ONE Purchase yields FOUR munzees)
- Birthday
- Get Well
- Thank You
- Congrats
- Sorry
- Sorry 1
- Sorry 2
- Sorry 3
- Winter
- Summer
Limited Edition (will rotate depending on occasion; ONE Purchase yields THREE munzees)
- Stay Home
- Tech Issues (not available for sale)
- March Into May Event (only available to March into May event hosts for their events)
- Green Cheers
- Kiss Me I’m Irish
- Lucky Charm

As a refresher, the point structure for Greeting Cards is as follows:

Open Edition
- Deploy: 50
- Capture: 40
- CapOn: 25
Limited Edition
- Deploy: 60
- Capture: 50
- CapOn: 30

Remember that these munzees will be archived 7 days after they are deployed, so make sure your intended recipient captures it before then!

For more information on the Greeting Cards, you can check out our Help Guide article.

The Return of Virtual Shamrocks!

Eagle-eyed players may have noticed a change in the name of the old Virtual Shamrock, which was a limited-time special in 2016! Well we could all use a little more luck in 2021, so we’re excited to bring these back permanently. You can now shop the Virtual Shamrock in the Freeze Tag Store HERE!

The points for Virtual Shamrocks are as follows:

Capture: 30
Deploy: 50
CapOn: 30

Similar to the Air Mystery, when a Virtual Shamrock is captured 1-3 NEW Clover Leaves will be scattered nearby! If you’re extra lucky there’s a small chance that a Golden Four Leaf Clover will be scattered after capping a Clover Leaf!

The Clover Leaves and Golden Four Leaf Clovers will be visible to ALL players, not just the player who capped the Virtual Shamrock, and will be deployed on the Virtual Shamrock owner’s account. This means that unlike Feathers, there are CapOn points for the owner! These leaf and clover scatters will NOT count for deploy streaks or clan activity since they are passive deploys.

The rewards for these scatters are as follows:

Clover Leaf
- Capture: 30
- CapOn: 17
Golden Four Leaf Clover
- Capture: 75
- CapOn: 25

Virtual Shamrocks are blastable, but their scatters are not. You can access the Virtual Shamrock by using the new filter in “Virtuals – Others”!

Badges

We’ve also created 2 new badge lines for capturing and deploying Shamrocks! These badges will be retroactive, but they will NOT count the Virtual Shamrocks from 2016.

The first badge line is for overall deploys of both physical and virtual Shamrocks. The second counts overall captures of both physical and virtual Shamrocks. You can see the first in each line below!

: Celtic Clover Knot- Deploy one Shamrock Munzee.

: Celtic Love Knot- Capture two Shamrock Munzees.

Expect more gorgeous celtic knot art in the badges that follow!

St. Paddy’s Personals

We’re also excited to announce a handful of personal tags with St. Patrick’s Day designs! Alongside the return of the Leprechaun Rover tag, we also have three round tags featuring the new Greeting Card designs. You can shop the whole collection HERE!

We hope these new game pieces make you feel as sprightly as a Leprechaun Gnome!

Munzee on!

March 11, 2021

Have a Gem of a Weekend with Double Points and More!

As March 13 is National Jewel Day, we thought it was the perfect excuse to put Jewels and Funfinity Stones in the spotlight! This year, on top of double points, we’ve got some special badges for you to earn and more! Read on to get the deets!

Double Points Details

From the period of Thursday, March 11th at 12:00 MHQ through Monday, March 15th at 12:00 MHQ, enjoy double points on ALL Jewel and Funfinity Stone activity!

This includes deploys of new Funfinity Stones, which leads us into the next topic…

Store Sale!

For the same period as double points, Funfinity Stones will be available in the Freeze Tag Store!

This is the perfect opportunity to pick up any that you missed last year, especially if you are looking to earn the Funfinity Bootlet badge!

Limited-Time Badges

For the same period as double points, you can earn a special badge for capturing a certain amount of Jewels, and another for deploying a certain amount of Jewels. If you need any jewels to deploy you can find them in the store or redeem your jewel shards!
You can see what these badges look like below!

We’ll keep the requirements a secret, but they shouldn’t be too hard to get! Please note that these badges will only require Jewel activity, NOT Funfinity Stone activity.

Rover Learned a New Trick!

Perhaps you’ve guessed what it is from the badge image above? Now, when you capture a Jewel while a Rover is with you, you have a small chance of receiving Jewel Shards! This includes Jewels captured using Blasts!

The popup that appears after you’ve captured a Jewel will let you know if Rover has dug up any, so make sure to keep an eye out! You will also find them on your credits list.

If you don’t have a Rover with you and there aren’t any nearby for you to pick up, you can purchase one from the store HERE! To learn more about how Rover works visit our Help Guide article HERE!

We hope you enjoy going on a treasure hunt with an old pal! We’re considering this the first step in our long-awaited Roverhaul.

Munzee on!

March 8, 2021

#ChooseToChallenge with Fancy Flat Lou!

We couldn’t let this month pass by without showing some love to Munzee’s leading lady, Flat Lou! Real-life Lou and the other Internationelles have some exciting news coming up, so make sure to read all the way to the end of the blog!

Limited Time Scatter Details

From the period of Monday, March 8th at 12:00 MHQ through Wednesday, March 31st at 23:59 MHQ, when you capture a Fancy Flat Lou, up to 3 Water Bottles may be scattered nearby!

The Water Bottles will be visible to any player and will be deployed on the Fancy Flat Lou owner’s account. This means that unlike Feathers/Boulders, there are CapOn points for the owner! They expire after 120 minutes and have a capture radius of 300 feet. These bottle scatters will NOT count for deploy streaks, ZeeOps, or clan activity since they are passive deploys.

The rewards for Water Bottles are as follows:

Capture: 50 points
CapOn: 25 points

For more information about Fancy Flat Lou, check out our Help Guide article!

Badges

There are 2 badges available for this special period. As long as you capture a Fancy Flat Lou and a Water Bottle scatter, you’ll receive both badges!

: Flat Lou’s Water Bottle – Capture 1 Fancy Flat Lou during the month of March 2021.

: Flat Pit Stop – Capture 1 Water Bottle scattered from Fancy Flat Lou.

Store Sale!

We’ve added Fancy Flat Lou back to the online store!

The only store limit will be up to one per variant per player account, meaning you can buy all three, but not more than one of each.

: InternationElles Flat Lou

: Team GB Flat Lou

: Polka Dot Flat Lou

In other words, each player is allowed to purchase one of each Fancy Flat Lou variant per account. The sale will remain through the entire month of March!

Lou News!

Check out the Union Cycliste Internationale’s social media — you will see Lou featured in an International Women’s Day campaign!

The theme for International Women’s Day for 2021 is Choose to Challenge. The InternationElles (which Lou is the leader of) are sharing the challenges they’ve chosen. If you’re curious to find out more about these amazing ladies, keep an eye on their social media!

Munzee on!

Cycling kits provided by Attacus
Check out Lou and the InternationElles on Instagram @loukew @internationelles

March 4, 2021

March Into May Events Bring a NEW Greeting Card and Garden Option

It’s just about that time — the busyness of the new year has mostly settled down, and we’re back to our routines. But don’t forget to plan things to look forward to! If you’re missing your local Munzee QRew, maybe a small, safe event is just the thing to add some cheer to your days.

We’re excited to announce March Into May event options are now available for events held throughout March, April, and May! Read on below to learn more about how we’re marching to a new tune this season!

March Into May Attendee Badge!

All events that take place from now until 31st May will receive a special March Into May badge for attendees.There will be no special event packages during this time however you are still able to add a custom icon and badge to your event. Louise is ready to work with hosts to customize their events so please get your events on the calendar and set up your basic event package!

Exclusive Greeting Card!

Any event that purchases a badge and icon that is being held during the months of March, April, and May will receive 50 free EXCLUSIVE March Into May Event Greeting Cards for the event account to deploy.

These Limited Edition cards are only available for events, so make sure you get your event on the calendar. For more information reach out to Munzee Event Manager Louise!

Tulip Virtual Gardens!

Event hosts will also have the option of adding a lovely Tulip Garden to their event location! The floral virtual garden is made up of 3 Air Mysteries, 3 Chicks, 23 Yellow Virtuals, 3 Electric Mysteries, 2 Peas, 14 Green Virtuals, and 1 NVG, deployed by our event account and on the map until 1st June for everyone to capture. This add-on will be $25 and available after you submit an event and begin communicating with Louise. These gardens are only available for events from now until 31st May.

We know the world is in a different state than the past and want to be sensitive to this. That is the reason we’re making these gardens available for the entire 3-month period. Socially-distanced and responsible events are taking place within local guidelines worldwide and we want to celebrate with you. Stay safe and stay aware!

Munzee on!

March 4, 2021

Reseller Garden Gnomes AND More Badges!

Our Authorized Resellers have let us know that they’ve gotten such amazing support from you, the players, with Fr057y and Virtual RUMs! With this year’s theme of Monthly Garden Gnomes, we thought it would be nice to include them in that as well! Please welcome these very special Garden Gnomes themed around each Reseller’s shop!

: Aussie Explorer Garden Gnome

: Gold Miner Garden Gnome

: Queen’s Guardsman Garden Gnome

: Astronaut Garden Gnome

Reseller Garden Gnome Details

Like the other gnomes, Reseller Garden Gnomes are temporary POBs that will remain on the map until 23:59 MHQ on December 31. They will be available at our Authorized Resellers’ shops some time today. When you purchase a Garden Gnome from a Reseller, you will receive the base Garden Gnome with their respective gnome skin already equipped. However, you can still swap out the skins just like the other Garden Gnomes — refer to our original blog post if you need a refresher! Interested? You can get links to shop all of our resellers HERE!

Points

Deploy: 500
Capture: 250
CapOn: 300

You can find these international ambassadors traveling to the following landing pads every 6 hours or when captured:

Greenies
Physical RUMs
Treehouses
All Virtual Colors
Virtual RUMs
Skylands

Additionally, the Gold Miner Garden Gnome will land on all stages of the Treasure Chest Evolution.

Also like the other gnomes, up to 3 NEW Gnome Hats may be scattered nearby when they are captured!

The Gnome Hats will be visible to any player and will be deployed on the Gnome owner’s account. This means that unlike Feathers/Boulders, there are CapOn points for the owner! They expire after 120 minutes and have a capture radius of 300 feet. These hat scatters will NOT count for deploy streaks, ZeeOps, or clan activity since they are passive deploys.

The rewards for Gnome Hats are as follows:

Capture: 50 points
CapOn: 50 points

Reseller Garden Gnomes of ANY type will be available for multi-capture. That means players can capture Reseller Garden Gnomes on their own munzees, any previously captured munzees, and more than once if the same Reseller Garden Gnome visits you. Reseller Garden Gnomes are non-blastable. They will be attracted to both Physical Magnets and Virtual Magnets. You can access Reseller Garden Gnomes by turning on your “All Limited Edition Specials” and “All Expiring Specials” filters.

Badges

As a reminder, Garden Gnomes have 4 associated badge lines:

Unique type deploy badges — you’ll need to earn each month’s skin by keeping your streak up! You’ll also receive these upon purchasing a Reseller gnome!
Overall deploy badges — the more gnomes you deploy, the merrier!
Unique type capture badges — capture at least 1 of each skinned gnome!
Overall capture badges — capture as many gnomes as you can find!

First, here are the “Unique type deploy” and “Unique type capture” badges associated with the Aussie Explorer Garden Gnome:

: The Munzee Hunter- Deploy an Aussie Explorer Gnome Munzee purchased from the GeoLoggers Reseller store.

: Zookeeper Gnome- Capture an Aussie Explorer Garden Gnome Munzee purchased from the GeoLoggers Reseller store.

The badges for the other Reseller Garden Gnomes follow the same pattern.

We’ve also extended the “Overall deploy” and “Overall capture” badge line — you can peek at the first of these new badges below:

: Cap Cubby- Deploy 3 temporary Garden Gnome Munzees.

: Gnomeward Bound- Capture 50 Garden Gnome Munzees.

We hope these Reseller gnomes are as beloved as their sports star brethren!

Munzee on!

March 1, 2021

March MunzPak Includes NEW Bee Evolution!

We think this month’s MunzPak is the bee’s knees! There are exclusive goodies in all the MunzPaks this month: Physical and Hybrid MunzPaks contain the new Bee Evolutions, and Virtual and Hybrid MunzPaks contain The next Egyptian Zodiac, Osiris! You can find a breakdown of each Pak below!

MunzPak is a monthly subscription service that delivers munzees directly to your door! Each of our three MunzPak options contain a variety of munzees, including some new items that you won’t be able to find anywhere else! The three different types of MunzPaks that you can subscribe to each month are as follows:

Physical MunzPak features blocks of generic stickers and pre-coded stickers including brand new munzees which can only be purchased through the subscription service. $~25 value for $15 each month.
Virtual MunzPak features a variety of virtual munzees that are automatically added to your account each month such as Destination Munzees, Jewels, and more. $~40 value for $25 each month.
Hybrid MunzPak is the best of both worlds! Get both physical and virtual munzees such as Places Munzees, Magnets, and more. $~30 value for $20.01 each month.

Never subscribed to MunzPak before? If this is your first month subscribing, you’ll have the chance to earn one-time badges for each type of Pak! All you have to do is stop by the Freeze Tag Online Store and subscribe today!

The March MunzPaks will contain the items listed below, effective as of 00:01 MHQ time on March 1. Please note that any purchases made before then will be for the February MunzPak, which contains different items.

March Physical MunzPak

Purchase HERE! Remember the stickers in this pak can be shared with others!

25 Generic Stickers
3 Bees (more info on this below!)
1 Butterfly
1 Rose
3 Seasonals
2 Water Mysteries

March Virtual MunzPak

Purchase HERE!

5 Osiris Egyptian Zodiacs
1 Flat DHS
1 Carnation
1 Virtual

March Hybrid MunzPak

Purchase HERE!

25 Generic Stickers (sent via mail)

Credits

1 Lily
1 Seasonal
2 Bees (more info on this below!)
25 Jewel Shards

Virtuals

3 Osiris Egyptian Zodiacs
1 Carnation

Bee Evolution Munzees

Stages 1-4 of the Bee Evos are Physical Munzees, which are as follows:

: Bee Eggs

: Bee Larvae

: Bee Pupae

: Empty Honeycomb

Once these Evolutions reach Stage 4, a temporary POB will be launched, which is Stage 5. For example, if you’ve deployed a Bee Evolution, the Empty Honeycomb will remain in place, while the adult Bee variant will be launched at the same time for the duration of its “lifespan.”

Stage 5 Bees will bounce to both physical and virtual landing pads every 8 hours. They have the option of emerging as one of the three different species shown below, with the WallaBee being the rarest of the 3.

: Honey Bee Physical

: Queen Bee Physical

: Queen Bee Virtual

: WallaBee Physical

: WallaBee Virtual

Like the Flower Evolutions, the chance of the Bee Evolution evolving to one of the 3 types changes every time it is reset with the Evolution Reset Credit. Although you cannot capture a reset evolution if you have already captured the original from stages 1-4, you CAN capture the final level of a reset when it evolves and releases a new tPOB. An easy way to know is, if you see it on the map you can capture it!

The stage timeline of the Bee Evolutions will match that of a real Worker Bee. The stages will be as follows:

Stage 1 to Stage 2: after 3 days (3 days total)
Stage 2 to Stage 3: after 6 days (9 days total)
Stage 3 to Stage 4: after 12 days (21 days total)
Stage 4 to Stage 5: permanent until reset to stage one
Stage 5: will exist for 36 days or 7 captures, whichever happens first, at which time the temporary Bee POB will be archived.

Please note that although the first four stages for each are the same, they will count as different special capture icons. Like all Player Owned Bouncers (POBs), the Bee Evolutions will be available for multi-capture only at Level 5.

The points for the Bee Evolutions will be as same as the Butterfly Evolution, with 100 points awarded per Stage 1 deploy.

Stage 1: Cap: 50, CapOn: 30
Stage 2: Cap: 40, CapOn: 20
Stage 3: Cap: 45, CapOn: 25
Stage 4: Cap: 40, CapOn: 30
Stage 5: Cap: 150, CapOn: 50, Host CapOn: 50

Just like real life bees, the Bee Evolution Munzees will be attracted to the following landing pads:

Greenies
All Stages of Tulip Evos
All Stages of Rose Evos
All Stages of Lily Evos
Earth Mystery
Treehouse
Virtual Colors
All Stages of Carnation Evos
Skyland

The Bee Evolutions will adhere to normal proximity rules. Stage 1 deploys must be at least 50 feet from any other physical type and 150 feet from your own physical munzees.

Stage 5 of the Bee Evos will NOT be attracted to magnets and are NOT blastable. To access the Bee Evolution Munzees, turn on your “Evolution” and “All Expiring Specials” filters. The Bee Evolutions will count toward Evolution Capture and Deploy badges.

Munzee on!

February 28, 2021

March 2021 Clan Wars Requirements

It’s almost March! You’ll find all the latest details to our clan requirements and rewards in the clan section of our app.

It is possible that we could update clan requirements prior to March 3 and reserve the right to do so. The final requirements and rewards will always be shown in the app. All of this is up in the air based on how situations continue to change worldwide based on COVID-19.