Posts Tagged ‘trip’

February 13, 2014

Important Announcement: We’re moving the Munzee forums!

A quick note to all our forum users. The forums have been growing and changing the past couple months, and that’s awesome. But we need to keep up with all this growth, so the tech guys at Team Munzee need to do some necessary maintenance. Scott, (Our VP of Tech) will be moving the forums to a new location: http://forums.munzee.com/ on Monday (2/17/14) at 1:00pm MHQT/1:00pm CST (UTC-6).

Scott safely transports the forum (and all it’s users) to the new location of forums.munzee.com !!!

-All data (and ducks) will be transferred during the move, so no need to worry about losing any of your subscribed forum posts, forum messages, etc… We anticipate the move should take an hour, but if anything happens, be sure to check our Social Networks (Twitter, Facebook, G+) for updates.

So don’t be caught off-guard, the forums will be down for maintenance at 1:00pm CST on Monday, 2/17!!!

February 13, 2014

Munzee Valentines: Players of the Week Jeff and Rachel Ware!

Team Munzee is all about sharing the love. Whether it’s a love of the game, growing the map, or each other, we’re here for a quiet night in capping Socials together, or out painting the town “red”!

This Valentine’s day we wanted to do something small, but special. We took a look at some of our player couples and decided to give a special shoutout to an amazing pair of Munzee peeps that share a love of each other, and Munzee! This week’s Players of the Week are Rachel and Jeff Ware!

Who are you (both), and what are your player names?

We are Jeff Ware (Xombie1013) and Rachel Ware (BooGirs)

Where in the world do you live?

We Live in Jefferson City, MO

How long have you played Munzee? I started: May 30th 2013. Rachel started: June 4th 2013

How did you find Munzee? Did you find Munzee together, or did one of you introduce the other to it?

I found it first, I was out geocaching with some friends and found a QR code in a cache, scanned it and was instantly hooked. A few day later I got Rachel to download the app.

Seriously, who “fell in love” with Munzee first? That would be me (Xombie1013)!!! 🙂

What do you enjoy most about Munzee?

Its an activity we can do easily together and with out 7yo daughter. Very easy to play and grow the map. And besides the usual parking lot you can find beautiful locations, places we would have never thought of going there if it wasn’t for that little green marker on the map.

What is on your wish list?

We came up with an idea for a special munzee type…called Bomb Munzee, random greenies would turn into “invisible” bomb munzees, (they stay green on the map) capper and owner would get a certain amount of points, and munzees in a 200 ft radius would get shrapnel points (1-3) then bomb will jump to another location. And capper would still get a bomb icon. (Editor’s note: Oooh, this sounds interesting!)

Another cool idea would be the ability to buy a patch for each badge you have unlocked. (can’t buy it unless you have the badge)

Tell us about yourself!

We first met at our apartment ( she was next door over) about 2 years after she moved to town. A random double rainbow (unicorn farts) as Rachel calls them, made us both go outside at the same time…..and been together since! (aww)

Got any special Munzee plans for Valentines?

We do have Munzee plans on Valentines Day!! I’m working out of town 4 days a week, and come home on the weekends. This Valentines Day weekend my wife and daughter are coming down to SW Missouri, and she suggested we go Munzeeing for 2 days straight! Gonna paint the town green!! (then red) 🙂

Do you have any other hobbies?

Rachel likes to make sculptures, and jewelry. We both like to play video games, we both geocache. I play Disc Golf!

Happy Valentine’s Day Xombie1013 & BooGirs! Just to make your weekend special, we’ve deployed two Diamonds in your accounts. That should put a smile on BooGir’s face! They were both sweet enough to share the love of their Social Munzee with us!

If you know a player that should be nominated for Munzee Player of the Week, shoot us a message at iLoveYou@Munzee.com -Please note, this is a super active campaign. We may not be able to get back to everyone, but you’re helping to grow the list of amazing people in the Munzee community!

February 6, 2014

Munzee Player of the Week: CoffeeEater

“Greatness surrounds greatness” -so it’s no surprise that this week’s Player of the Week is a part of the tight-knit clan community of Phoenix Rising, Z QRew & FireBirdZ with other POTW Alumni! This week’s Player of the Week is Scott Cable, aka CoffeeEater!

Who are you? CoffeeEater

Where in the world do you live? Pittsburgh, PA, USA

How long have you played Munzee? 2 1/2 Years

How did you find Munzee? Actually my Wife did, she was reading a blog for mothers and the day’s post was on letterboxing. As part of the blog post the author mentioned Munzee as something new her family was looking into. I was at my desk charting out some ideas for a future cache when she suggested this Munzee thing I may be interested in. My response; “ahh what’s a ‘Munzee’? Sounds weird.” After checking out the site I quickly had my first one deployed in front of my computer to test it out. Then realizing I don’t want people coming to my house I undeployed it and redeployed a couple days later- July 30, 2011- to kick off my new hobby!

What do you enjoy most about Munzee? In the beginning it was all about the points, I loved it! Dropping new Munzees and making sure any new pins where cleared from the map while seeing myself climb the ranks was very addictive. This was back in the day, Superman was #1 around maybe ~12,000 points I made my way up inside the top 20 along with another local player, logsplitter. As with many areas and a new game, the growth was slow, and I took a short hiatus from play.

Take 2 and a few months gone by, I checked out the happenings at Munzee and the local map that was growing while I was hibernating back in cache land. It became clear that I should have had some patience! The game started evolving in so many ways and I was instantly more obsessed than before, lol.

Honestly, I still like points but I really enjoy making specific trails and enjoying the game with others especially new players like CPTskg & rgm129 out there getting their feet wet. For me I think the game really hit pay-dirt with clans and the team work it takes to make that happen every month. Luckily for me I hooked up with a great clan with the Phoenix Rising & Z QRew.

What is on your wish list? Personally I just want to have fun and be part of what keeps it that way. I guess a more specific goal would be to get back into the top 100 and the badge that comes with it. I think I said that somewhere before, ahh yes the testimonial that you may see pop up on the about Munzee page “I’ve been playing and enjoying the game for over a year. I’m still having fun and can’t wait to see my name in the top 100 :).”…yep same goal 🙂

I think it could be fun to include some type of series Munzee that’s progressive in the field. My thought is that it would work similar to the quiz Munzees but answering correctly would unlock the next stage. Stage 1 would be visible to all, but stage 2 and so forth can’t be seen at all on the map until 1 is unlocked. Unlocking stage 1 would have to trigger a notification or pop up to alert you to where the next stage is located. In my little dream world the points would be 20pts max for each stage for a total of 100pts after finding and answering them all correctly the first time. Again similar to the quiz Munzee, less points for chances taken to get the correct answer. Since we’re in the CoffeeEater dream world, this obviously includes a set of badges.

Tell us about yourself! My real name is Scott Cable, and I have a wonderful family including my wife Amber and our two daughters. The eldest princess, Makenna, just turned 7 and young princess, Elena, is 4. I’m a Mechanical Engineer by trade, working for a water filtration company in the small town of Zelineople, PA. The majority of the time I Munzee solo, and in the dark. Later at night just ends up being when I get my free time, and I’m a night hawk anyway so it all works out.

My wife is a great health coach, and loves to do what she can to help others in their journey. You just might find a social Munzee somewhere here: http://www.myleancoach.com/

In general I’m pretty darn boring and outside of Family and work, I find myself shifting from one obsession to another. You’ll probably find few others with a music listening range like mine. With an over 50,000 song collection you can easily find me listening to some 80’s hair band, punk rock, jazz, old school rap, and to nail down an absolute favorite, that would have to be Metallica.

Music aside I’m a huge movie fanatic to boot. If you came over looking for a movie I probably have it. Similar to music I have a large range of genre interests, but always seam to roll back to Crime especially Gangster.

“As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster.” -Henry Hill

I wasn’t always known as CoffeeEater, during my days as a Boy Scout I was Turtle. First time out on a backpacking trip with my troop I thought I was tough or I at least wanted everyone else to think so. I offered to carry more and more to the point it was way too much. I took a break near a hillside along the trail at which point someone bumped me. I rolled down the hill and at the bottom I rolled around but couldn’t manage to get myself back up with everything stuck to my back. From that point forward, it was Turtle.

Thanks to those who nominated me and to MHQ for keeping this great game moving forward!

Scott was awesome enough to share his Social with us. Here it is!

January 30, 2014

Player of the Week: Ken Kellar (KenLaur)

Sometimes, our helpful players aren’t just players, they’re trusty folks with a heartfelt investment in Munzee. This week’s player of the week is always there to chat up new players, teach them about the workings of Munzee, network/help out with Munzee events, and of course, provide them with essential Munzee supplies. This week’s Player of the Week is Ken Kellar, aka Kenlaur!

Who are you? Kenlaur

Where in the world do you live? Frankford, Ontario Canada

How long have you played Munzee? About 1 1/2 years

How did you find Munzee? I read something about a new geolocation gamecalled Munzee in a Geocaching log. I did a web search for Munzee and checked the website to see how many where in my area. I only found 4 within a 200 km radius and all fairly close to me. Unfortunately I only had a Windows Phone (no Windows app back then) so had to wait until I got a new phone which I did shortly after. I quickly started growing the area map to attract new players and have been hooked ever since.

What do you enjoy most about Munzee?

I enjoy getting out and growing the map, meeting other Munzee players, and teaching new players about Munzee. I also enjoy ClanWars in which I sponsor Team Geohobbies. Its great to have a goal each month to push for.

A recent highlight was meeting Team Munzee (Rob and TJ) in Niagara Falls Ontario in October 2013 at the Munzee Crosses the border event where we had players come from as far away as Quebec to join in.

What is on your wish list?
I’m very happy with how the game is progressing so far. So if I had to pick something that would make the game easier is to have a breakdown of what type of Munzees we have deployed in our weekly summary, and maybe regional leaderboards.

Tell us about yourself!

My real name is Ken Kellar aka Kenlaur, and I am the owner of www.geohobbies.ca which is an authorized Munzee retailer. I work as a Medic for a local ambulance service, and run my own medical response company. Here’s my Social Munzee!

I get out and Munzee whenever I can with my Girlfriend Laura (who was the “Laur” of Kenlaur until she opened her own Munzee account under the trailname Lauralin). I also get out with Mike (Staygold678) locally, and Jake and Mark (MunzeeRailfan – 1st ever POTW, and Canadaian Zombie) whenever I get up to their area.

Be sure to check out Geohobbies for all your international Munzee needs! Ken was nice enough to share the official Geohobbies Social Munzee with us. You can cap it below:

January 27, 2014

Episode 4: Munzee chatter, and the Inaugural Munzee Olympics!

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This episode is a casual conversation regarding general chatter on all the Social Media outlets. Also, we thank Dave K for his awesome sound quality suggestions, and discuss the Munzee Olympics!

For the exact details of the Munzee Olympics, be sure to check:

The Inaugural Munzee Olympics!

Podcast Suggestion contest ends 1/28/14, have you submitted your suggestion to podcast@munzee.com?

Check out this episode

January 26, 2014

The Inaugural Munzee Olympics!

It’s February! This is the month when athletes, countries, and nations join together and go for the gold. The unity and sportsmanship have inspired us to have the Inaugural Munzee Olympics!

Represent the best of the best and choose your nation. Proudly compete against fellow Munzee players and rise as a Champion!

The Munzee Olympics will be made up of various competitions, we encourage all nations to participate in all the events.

The nitty-gritty details:

Choose your nation: Begins February 1— 00:01 MHQ (GMT -6) — Ends February 6— 23:59 MHQ (GMT -6)
Choose your competition: Players are not enrolled in every competition. You must enroll in the “sport” you excel in (compete in the games you think best suit your Munzee style). Note: You can choose a maximum of 5 events.

(que grand trumpet noise) And now to announce the Munzee Olympic game events! Here are the sport categories you can compete in:

Freestyle: Overall points for all activity during the Munzee Olympics
Greenies: # of Greenies capped
Academic: # of Quiz and Quiz virts capped
Social: # of Socials capped
Badge: # of Badges earned during the Munzee Olympics (includes ALL badges)
Visitor: # of Motels capped (sum of Motels and Motel Rooms)
Virtual Olympian: # of Virts and Mystery Virts capped (sum of both)
Ice: # of Diamonds capped
Grow the Map: # of Greenies deployed (may not be converted during Olympics)
Unicorn: # of Business caps
Level Up: # of Levels gained
Triathlon: # of times you cap a complete cycle of 1 green, 1 virtual, 1 mystery
Webbed: # of Virts and Mystery Virts deployed (sum of both)
Perfect 100: # of days with exactly 100 points
Go For the Gold: # of premium caps (goldies)

Points System: Each event will be scored by the actions necessary divided by the number of players for the nation. Example: Ice, 42 Diamonds capped by a total of 7 players = 6 points for the nation. Triathlon: 72 green, 56 virtual, 25 mystery capped by 5 players = 25 / 5 = 5 points for nation.

The games begin February 7 at 00:01 MHQ (GMT -6) and end February 23 at 23:59 MHQ (GMT -6)! More details about EVERYTHING will be posted throughout the week, so watch this blog.

Olympic Awards will be announced during the Opening Ceremonies.

January 24, 2014

Go for the Gold this February: February Clan Wars!

We’ve heard feedback around the world, and this February will be a global effort in both sportsmanship & Munzee games! To pull together as a Munzee community, here are the February Clan War Weapon goals:

Bronze: All 10 clan members must earn 250 points. — Special Munzee to be capped will be emailed as reward.
Silver: All 10 clan members must earn 750 points — 2 Munzee Maces awarded.
Gold: All 10 clan members must earn 2000 points — 2 Munzee Longswords awarded.
The Olympic Chuck: All 10 clan members must earn 4000 points. — 3 Munzee Maces, 3 Munzee Longswords, & 3 Mystery Virtuals awarded.

As you can see, we’re taking this Clan War to an Olympic level. Will you rise as a champion? The Clan War recruiting period will open February 1st and end February 3rd when this war officially begins at 00:01 MHQ time (GMT -6). Clans must contain 10 members in order to qualify for each prize and ALL 10 members must meet the point level to earn the prize.

Get ready for a very intense February, we’re giving you the details now so you can get your “Dream Team” assembled!

“Have fun, because that’s what life is all about.” – Laid-back U.S. Olympian Ryan Lochte.

December 5, 2013

Munzee Player of the Week Spotlight: Kimberly Cole

By now, you know it’s not all about the numbers. The Munzee community grows strong through networking, friendship, and building up a presence in your local (and online) community. This week’s Player of the Week Spotlight goes out to Kimberly Cole, also known as ColesCruising. With a positive Munzee attitude and helpful nature, you’d be surprised to learn this new face in the world of Munzee discovered the game a little over three months ago! Munzee has played an important role in her life, and she’s paid it forward by being a strong presence in the Munzee communities online and real life! Let’s take a moment to meet ColesCruising!

Username: ColesCruising

Where in the world do you live? Harrison, Arkansas (USA).

How long have you played Munzee? -Just over three months, which is why I am shocked to have been nominated!

How did you find Munzee?

I started and admin a Facebook Group called RVers Life for Me. Within the group, one member asked if anyone was into Geocaching. Someone responded and said they hunted Munzee instead. I had no idea what that was but had to know, so I was off to Google. Within minutes I had downloaded the app and haven’t looked back since! It didn’t take long for the addiction to hit and that obsession was infectious. Now my husband (Harry4077) and my daughter (Dux) are playing with me along with my neighbor Doug (DFC1560). In addition, my son and his family are now playing in their area of California!

What do you enjoy most about Munzee?

I love that the game is ever-changing, ever-evolving. I am always pleasantly surprised with the new things that are cooked up in the Munzee kitchens and I look forward to each one with the anticipation of a child on Christmas Eve. However, what I love most about the game is what it’s doing to us as a family, and to our health. Playing Munzee has afforded us a chance to do new things and see new places we might not have seen before and it’s given us a sense of purpose. A great reason to get outdoors more, to be more physical and as a result – all three of us have lost weight.

Better yet, Donald’s health is improving. When we married five years ago, I was warned by doctors that I wouldn’t have him very long. You see, Don’s heart works at only 17% of normal and there is no fix for that, short of a transplant.

Yet, through his new activities with Munzee – as well as his medications – he is improving. Two weeks ago, at his cardiology check-up, we learned that he was no longer sick enough to be on the transplant list! Last week, we were in Eureka Springs, Arkansas where CoachV has a number of deploys and I was shocked to see Don climbing stairs and walking hills – things he could not do five years ago – things he would not do six months ago.

What do I enjoy most about Munzee?

I have a stronger, healthier and more vibrant husband. I have a closer and more fun loving family, I’m skinnier and I have met some of the most kind-hearted, helpful, funny and endearing fellow Munzers that I am now proud and honored to call friends – and family.

What is on your wish list?

You might be sorry you asked me that question!

· Expanded Chuck Requirements: 2500 pts, a diamond, a virtual, a mystery AND a motel

· A badge for collecting Social Munzees at 250 collected, 500, 750, 1000 and A badge for how many times your social has been capped (perhaps folks wouldn’t hide theirs any longer)!

· Bumper stickers: “I brake for Munzees” “Munzee Hunter on Board” “Code Hunter: #Munzee” – Growing the map is great, but growing active players to the game is one of my goals as well.

Tell us about yourself!

My real name is Kimberly Cole, I live with my husband Donald (Harry4077), our daughter Kayla (Dux) and Traveler – two year old ShihTzu. We have lived in our RV for the last two years, traveling the country when school is on break, long weekends and vacations and document our travels through our blog site: www.ColesCruising.com.

I have five children, three grandchildren and seven siblings – all spread from corner to corner of the country. This is one of the many reasons we choose to live our nomadic life – it affords us the ability to be in Vermont, California, Alaska, Florida, Arkansas and everywhere in between when one of life’s great events occurs with any of them.

When I began Munzee, my hometown had one Munzee pin on the map. Since then, my husband and I have had our town – and a few surrounding towns – on the Hotspot list a number of times. When I am not Munzeeing, I work as a freelance writer from home and administer more than 10 different Facebook groups online dealing with a number of different interests. I’ve recently taken on the role of admin for the Facebook group ‘The Munzee Trail – A Photo Album’ where all Munzers are invited to share photos of things they have seen while on the trail. In addition, I am now co-admin for the ‘Social Munzee Sharing Group’.

Do you know a player that inspires you, or does their part to grow the world of Munzee? Know a Munzee super-hero, or maybe just someone that makes you smile? If so, send us a message at iLoveYou@Munzee.com with their name, player name, and your info as well!

September 6, 2013

Munzee Longsword

The Munzee Longsword

Long live the Munzee longsword. Three clans earned the Munzee Longsword after play concluded for September 5, 2013. Clans Cologne, Hummel Hummel, and Menagerie were the first clans and players to receive the longsword. How did they earn this level three weapon in the current clan battle? Each clan member accumulated a minimum of 1000 points. Find more details about the Munzee longsword via our help desk.

What’s Next?

“The Chuck” is the highest level weapon during this clan battle. It won’t be as simple as just accumulating points to earn this weapon. Which clan will figure out the right combination to unlock The Chuck first?

September 5, 2013

Why Clan Weapons?

This month we wanted to give everyone a new reason to play! It’s not all about trying to make it into the Top 3 – sometimes it’s about working together with your friends from around the globe. That is the design for the clan weapon layout. The clan weapons will not level the playing field during this battle. Can we expand this plan in the future? Yes. Will we? Stay tuned! 🙂

Specifically we’ve chosen “weapons” due to the fact that these are called clan “battles” or “wars”. We hope it gives you a fun new reason to get out and Munzee, with the possibility of earning a limited release Munzee type.