NorthWest Arkansas Cachers

Captured my first Munzee this morning - (Thanks AR Stickerdude). If you haven't heard of this, go to www.munzee.com

It's basically a game where QR-style barcodes are hidden by the players. Then, other players come along and find them by scanning them with their smartphone. The apps are free and available for IOS (3GS and 4G) and Android phones with auto-focus cameras.

There is currently only one Munzee deployed in this corner of the state, but its been growing fast over the past 3 weeks or so. the geocaching podcast did a segment on it last week.

Check it out and let us know what you think.

when I get a iphone better than a 3G, I'll try them out.

Yeah I tried to download the program to the 3G Iphone and got the message it was not compatable with that phone. It will be awhile before I upgrade phones. But have saw a munzee in Little Rock.

i down loaded it last night i like the concept

I wish the program worked for iPhone 3....but we're waiting for upgrade time too....October for us maybe ( if I don't have to sell a kidney and a small child to pay our electric bills afetr having the air on in this heat wave)....lol...Happy Caching in the mean-time though.

kdkedwards wrote:I wish the program worked for iPhone 3....but we're waiting for upgrade time too....October for us maybe ( if I don't have to sell a kidney and a small child to pay our electric bills afetr having the air on in this heat wave)....lol...Happy Caching in the mean-time though.

I hear that about the electric bill. It does work with the 3GS.

silly iphone users

We deployed our first 3 munzees today. Who will capture them first?

ugh I have a 3Gs phone but I guess it doesn't have a auto focus camera, will have to try this game when I get a new phone!! looks like lots of fun!!

I thought the 3GS did have an auto focus camera. Sometimes, it takes a few seconds to capture one. Did you try it on the one on the main site page?

I don't know if anyone else mad a problem with Munzee link. When I went to page it started down loading a virus on my computer.

debmitc wrote:ugh I have a 3Gs phone but I guess it doesn't have a auto focus camera, will have to try this game when I get a new phone!! looks like lots of fun!!

Deb, talked to a friend today and he told me that all 3GS iPhones have auto-focus. Sometimes with his wife's he has to double tap the screen to activate the auto-focus.

I have created several Munzees. I'm trying to decide how/where to hide them. Geocache style or just laminate and hide? Feedback???

My feeling is that since a smartphone (even an Android phone) is nowhere near as accurate as a handheld GPS, I try not to "hide" them in too difficult a manner and to make the description such that you can almost find them without a GPS. Also, I believe that we need to do whatever we can to get more people interested to get more placements, so again, I don't want them to be too hard. Finally, this is our chance to get away from hiding them like newer geocache hides -- no more lamp posts!!!

I finally got a new Iphone 4s and found my first 2 munzee's and released my first one yesterday!! Fun Fun!! The 2 that I found were new ones here in Joplin that no one had found yet. Will look forward to finding some when I get time in NWA!!