There is still time to enter our competition to design our next slate coin.
We have 15 blank slate coins that are awaiting your design. The coins will be sold at our events to raise money for 9US funds.
Rules/Guidelines The slate coins are approx 50mm in diameter. The coin will have two designs one on the obverse (heads) and one on the reverse (tails). The design needs to contain the wording ‘9 Usual Suspects’ and ‘Track at Geocaching.com’. Space has to be left for TB 6 digit tracking number which will begin 9U. No brand names, trademarks or logos to be used. The coin design has to go through an approval process by Geocaching HQ. Designs to be either emailed to competition@9usualsuspects.uk or handed directly to us. The competition closing date is 31st December 2023.
Further details message us either through the comments, 9 Usuals Suspects Geocaching account or competition@9usualsuspects.uk
Merry Christmas/Nadolig Llawen
Christmas is not Christmas without bad Christmas cracker jokes, here are 3 to get you in the festive mood:
What did Santa do when he went speed dating? He pulled a cracker.
Why could the skeleton not go to the Christmas party? Because he had nobody to go with.
last one… Did Rudolph go to school? No, he was elf-taught
Remember this:
We would just like to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas and Thank you all for your support over the last year.
GCAED06 GIFF 2023, Geocaching International Film Festival by 9 usual Suspects Event D1/T1
A very big Thank You to everyone for attending. The weather was perfect for a GIFF event…… grey, wet and cold. A miserable Sunday afternoon when you really did not want to be outside caching. After hot drinks, snacks and plenty of geochat we settled down to watch the films. We started this years film show with a surprise addition, Dragons Quest, a film submitted by RichieBlod but sadly didn’t make Geocaching HQs final cut. This was by far the most popular film with our audience!
As in our previous GIFF events everyone was given a voting sheet and asked to mark the films out of 10. The results of the voting: 1) Geocare – Home for the Aged Geocacher 121 votes 2) Don E.T. 95 votes 3) Geocaching Might Be For You 81 votes
It will be very interesting to compare our results with those of the official vote run by HQ, GIFF People’s Choice Film. How to vote for GIFF People’s Choice Film: 1. Attend an official GIFF Event November 9 – 19, 2023. 2. After watching the films, go to surveymonkey.com/r/GIFF2023 . 3. Vote for your favourite film. One vote per Geocaching.com player account. Voting closes Thursday 23rd November.
We have to Thank Pete for the personalised event souvenirs, sorting the tech and being projectionist, Elaine for running the kitchen, Carole & Caleb for letting us show their film, Richard for helping setting/clearing up, Jen for the wonderful raspberry flapjack and everyone that helped out, supported us by buying raffle tickets, containers and making donations. Your support is very much appreciated!
Slate Geocoin Competition
Have you ever thought about designing a geocoin? We have 15 blank slate coins that are awaiting your design. The coins will be sold at our events to raise money for 9US funds.
Our first slate geocoins
Rules/Guidelines The slate coins are approx 50mm in diameter. The coin will have two designs one on the obverse (heads) and one on the reverse (tails). The design needs to contain the wording ‘9 Usual Suspects’ and ‘Track at Geocaching.com’. Space has to be left for TB 6 digit tracking number which will begin 9U. No brand names, trademarks or logos to be used. The coin design has to go through an approval process by Geocaching HQ. Designs to be either emailed to competition@9usualsuspects.uk or handed directly to us. The competition closing date is 31st December 2023.
Further details message us either through the comments, 9 usuals Suspects Geocaching account or competition@9usualsuspects.uk
Just one new cache, a tricky puzzle to get the brain cells working.
GCA29G4 Let’s Arrange It! by Clueless_Goose Mystery/Puzzle D4/T2
Event Reminder GCA2704 9 Usual Suspects Visit Penrhyn Quarry by 9 Usual Suspects D1/T1 Where: Blondin Restaurant, Zip World Penrhyn Quarry, Bethesda LL57 4YG When: Sunday 4th December Time: 2.30pm-3.30pm
To celebrate the arrival of our slate geocoins we are visiting Penrhyn Quarry the source of the slate. The Blondin Restaurant offers a combination of indoor seating and an outdoor terrace with views across the famous slate mine and over the turquoise waters of the lake in Penrhyn Quarry. According to their website, ‘it’s a modern, bistro-style venue featuring locally sourced delights’.
Coins will be available to purchase at £9.00 each.
PanIQ Room/Christmas Dinner 26th November
The weather might have been awful but that didn’t matter as all our planned adventures where for once inside. A pint in the Australia is always a good start to a day of fun and again was the perfect base while the ‘non competitive’ teams completed the challenge of the Christmas escape room. Did the best team win? Well, one team now holds the record for the fastest escape ever! A big Thanks goes to Julie for arranging. The Clairvoyants Curse returns in March, anyone interested in joining us for another fun day in the PanIQ Rooms and Australia?
It was our first event at Tafarn Yr Afr/Goat Inn, the olde world pub with the lovely Christmas tree and festive music made for a very Christmassy atmosphere. Pete’s ‘Home Bargains’ Christmas jumper lowered the standard and would have won the worst jumper in any competition. It was not long before everyone was seated and the food began to arrive. Gwenllian and Pete took the opportunity in a lull between courses to deliver the ‘Secret Santa’ presents, I must say there was a high standard of gifts this year. I’ll be very interested to see what Sion does with his wheels! I think we all ate far too much with this meal being one of the best we have had at a 9US Christmas Event. It was a shame the coffee & mince pies never showed up but I don’t think we had room for them anyway.
In the past, pre-covid, we have held events on New Years Eve and New Years Day. Should we re-start the tradition? Let us know your opinions by either messaging us or through the comments.
January N&N is scheduled for Wednesday 25th, due to local staffing problems and the general economic situation we are concerned that many pubs may not be open mid week or may have restricted opening hours, so we are considering moving N&N to either Friday 27th or Saturday 28th. We will review the situation early in the New Year.
Ski Sunday is coming to the Nantlle Valley in January, proposed date Sunday 15th. More details once plans have been finalised.
In February we are planning a puzzle solving event, with puzzle boxes and the ultimate challenge
Have you any suggestions for 9US events and adventures? All suggestions very welcome.
