Throwing gauntlets is so five centuries ago.

En Guarde and Touche

After my first few dozen finds, I got pretty bored with finding large caches at their listed coordinates; it just wasn't much of a challenge. (Unless the location was hard to get to.) Fortunately there were quite a few puzzle caches and cleverly hidden micros in the area where I started caching (Davis/Sacramento), and they soon became my favorites. But in both cases, I like the actual coordinates, whether they're given on the cache page or as a solution to a puzzle, to be as accurate as possible. Finding a needle in a haystack can be fun, but not if you don't know which haystack to look in.

10-4 to that which is the biggest point of all

Nylimb will be offering a free seminar, PuzzleTalk 101, on...on....oh well, you figure out where and when.

Hey everyone. Have fun with Puzzlehead.

some of those are hard, if a trick could be explained for "envelope challenge" thad be much appreciated

Most puzzle cache owners are willing to give hints for their caches; they actually do want people to find them. I've never asked the owner of Envelopes for a hint, but I'm pretty sure he's a reasonable guy. If you email him and tell him what you've figured out so far, he'll probably either confirm that your reasoning is OK and give you a hint about what to do next, or tell you where you've made a mistake.

Be forewarned, his "hints" are as difficult as his puzzles.

as usually