The table and picture below display the scoring and gameboard in a match between Casey Kasem and Emily Post. They are good at torturing geocachers with their shrewd Scrabble skills.
Official Scoresheet
Casey |
Emily |
Words |
Score |
Words |
Score |
FLUNKY |
+42=42 |
[A]VERAGE |
+71=71 |
SQUAWK |
+32=74 |
EXAMINE |
+34=105 |
PINN[A]CLE |
+65=139 |
BEELIKE |
+52=157 |
MIMIC |
+32=171 |
NINJA |
+26=183 |
KEY |
+11=182 |
BOOZE |
+42=225 |
CLIMATIC |
+92=274 |
BOG |
+6=231 |
Casey and Emily are pretty good Scrabble players and they are en route to a very high scoring game. At this point in the game Casey has CLASTER in his rack and Emily is holding NRIHGER. It is Casey's turn.
All words can be found in the Scrabble dictionary.
A few of the caches are rather well-concealed and all are winter friendly--although one stage is friendly only with less than a foot of snow on the ground. All stages but the final are small to medium size pill bottles or micros.
When you get to the field, please use a stopwatch and when you log the cache electronically, note your time from parking to finding the final. It is approximately a 1.5 mile loop from parking to final cache. This is a beautiful and very diverse trail through some wilderness and farmland. Feel free to compete for 1) the shortest time OR 2) the longest time enjoying the scenery.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.
You can find a big nudge for solving this puzzle in GC38WXC: Scrabble Scramble