Official Munzee Podcast

Munzee Weekly Podcast - Friday June 20th, 2025

• Rob Vardeman & Craig Michell • Season 3 • Episode 25

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In this episode of the Munzee podcast, hosts Rob and Craig discuss their recent gameplay experiences, updates on Munzee events, and the introduction of Bouncing Virtual Gardens (BVG). They share personal anecdotes about their point standings, highlight recent events across the globe, and delve into the mechanics and player engagement strategies surrounding the new BVGs. Craig and Rob discuss various aspects of the Munzee game, including the recent changes to virtual points, the introduction of cursed Munzees, and the new Secret Xeox. They also address community feedback regarding point discrepancies and app downtime, while sharing tips for maximizing gameplay. The episode concludes with a fun tip for players to explore old Munzee event locations for hidden treasures.


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Craig (00:00.641)
Welcome to the official Munzee podcast.

Rob (00:03.018)
I'm Rob, also known as Coach V, your host and the president of Muncie.

Craig (00:06.771)
And I'm Craig also known as Seemyshell, I started as an avid Munzee player, now proudly part of the team.

Rob (00:11.916)
Each week we'll delve into Munzee's mysteries, divulge some secrets, and inform players from around the world just what is coming your way.

Craig (00:18.733)
So sit back, relax, today's episode, we're gonna get some hot-headed chat secret, Z-ops bouncing virtual guns, and there's the BVGs, Rob. Wow, some big things have happened over the past week, and we, you and I need to discuss them, How? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Meanwhile, before we move on, I've gotta discuss something else. Last week, last week, Rob, we discussed about how

Rob (00:28.738)
Ugh.

Rob (00:34.356)
I think that we probably should. That's what we do on this podcast. Yeah.

Rob (00:44.654)
How do you?

Craig (00:47.417)
Oh, you know, Rob is traipsing. And I can say that, talk about like that to you, cause it's you and not the players. You know, Oh, I'm Rob and I'm traipsing all over the UK and getting plenty of cards from all these cap on them. I'm back to over 6 million ahead of Craig. All things have changed Rob. Currently as we record this, we're recording on a Tuesday afternoon this time, Rob, you're at 99.5 million points. You're nearly at that 100 million points, mate.

Rob (00:52.943)
okay.

Rob (01:01.24)
Yeah.

No.

Rob (01:11.726)
I haven't even made it to 100 million. I was at 99.5 million last week too. Oh, that's ridiculous.

Craig (01:17.401)
No, no, were 9.4 last week. I checked, yeah, exactly. Whereas myself, I'm up to 97.9, so I'm only 1.6 million behind you, not six million. So that means I clawed back, I clawed back over four million points in a week, I clawed back over you. How, how did I do that? This is what people are gonna ask, how is this possible? How is it?

Rob (01:28.514)
don't remember approving this.

Rob (01:35.213)
No.

Craig (01:39.967)
Easy, Rob was too busy enjoying his life and living his life, it's true, it's true. And I was enjoying my life, but my Munzee life, Rob. And I'm in Munzee heaven as we speak, in Minnesota. So for the past few days, I've been smashing, hammering Minnesota big time. So the Mall of America is just saturated with them too. So that's what I have been doing.

Rob (01:44.814)
It's true. Yeah, yeah.

Rob (01:56.749)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (02:08.172)
Yeah, because you've never been to Mall of America events in the past, right? Because the two times there were events, I was there, but you were not. So, yeah, I've got that area. And then, you know, we've been to other places where there are where they've had those events. But but we were both there. So, yeah, that makes sense. I I.

Craig (02:16.841)
Mm-hmm. No.

Craig (02:25.625)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (02:30.167)
But just, just in general, Minnesota, Minneapolis in general, Minneapolis and Paul, the twin cities flooded, absolutely flooded Rob with Munzee tears. So I am, I am in awe of it all and I'm loving every second of it too. And not wasting any, any, any time at all, Rob, not wasting any time. So.

Rob (02:40.078)
Wow.

Rob (02:49.25)
Well, that's very wise. I'm back in Florida and I was in a very dry zone of Florida as far as gameplay goes. And I was so enjoying life, as you said, that I didn't even open the Munzee app for an entire day. I had to use a capture mulligan to get my streak back. Isn't that embarrassing? That's the second time.

Craig (02:59.116)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (03:06.22)
Mmm.

Craig (03:12.601)
No, wow. I wouldn't be proud of that. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. And you're the president of Munzee. So there you go. There you go. This is true. This is true. This is true. Although a break for me would be just literally open the, open the app and cap one thing just to keep the streak. That's still, that's still a break.

Rob (03:18.932)
in less than 12 months that I've had to do that. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. Hey, man, everybody takes a break every now and then, you know, even me.

Rob (03:35.338)
Yeah, I just, I guess it was just that kind of day where I was just just chill enough that I just I just didn't do it, man.

Craig (03:43.609)
Mm-hmm. Yeah, and look, I'm happy, I'm excited, Rob. I'm happy that you're living your life. I'm really enjoying that part of it because, you know, slows you down, me speeding up. Will I, as this goes live, Rob, will I, will I have surpassed you already? That is yet to be seen, so we'll soon see, we'll soon see. Meanwhile, Rob, the events over the last weekend in USA, had Massachusetts, Arizona, and Kansas, and around the world, mate.

Rob (04:01.112)
Yeah.

We will.

Rob (04:10.356)
Germany and Norway.

Craig (04:12.601)
And so the leaderboards over the weekend, Friday we had Tofu Girl on 352,000 points, followed by Coal Cracker 7, 229,000 points. And third place is something, instead of second, is Munzee Prof with 222, 2222 points. 200, that's what I meant to say, 222,000 points. All the twos got me all in trouble. Anyway, Rob, Saturday we had.

Rob (04:30.461)
222,000 yeah yeah I just snorted that was bad

Yeah, Saturday was Coal Cracker 7 with 220,000, Munzee Prof 197,000, and Vatotech 176,000.

Craig (04:50.329)
Now on Sunday, looks like Whelan W. Helen may or may not have retired because he got 401k, 401,000 points. You like how I that? There we go. Anyone else apart from Mary won't understand it. Regal got 294,000 points in second place and FRLK 247,000 in third place. Very cool. Current events around the world this, or sorry, around the world this weekend to Massachusetts.

Rob (04:59.722)
Ehhhh... Nice, good one.

No.

Rob (05:18.264)
Yeah, here we go.

Craig (05:18.563)
But they're not this weekend, they're before the weekend. So as this goes live, they've already been done and dusted, so to speak. And around the world, what we have, how many? That's it, that's it. You can tell it's the end of the month again and everyone's already done and dusted with their clan wars and people are like, no, I don't need any more points, I'm not hosting any more events. But it is what it is.

Rob (05:27.438)
One in Germany. Yeah.

Rob (05:39.822)
They're getting ready. They're getting ready for birthday month. So many events are already popping up and we've got that birthday event package that's happening. Good deal with that and Lou would be happy to work with any hosts. So get your event on the calendar. She will start emailing with you and well, you'll hear us talk about your event.

Craig (05:42.999)
they're having a sleep in now. Yes.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Craig (05:59.96)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (06:03.777)
Exactly. Meanwhile, the big events that are coming up that are listed as well, July 11 to 13, four events, Western New York, same weekend is five events in the Netherlands. July 25th, Munzee at Bash in Wassian, Again, as I said before, that's a coexist event. So those people who attending, make sure you wear your coexist shirts. If you don't have them, you can get them in the store, in the freeze tag store as well.

Rob (06:16.266)
Waseon.

Hehehehehe

Craig (06:30.393)
Other than that, we have a September 12 to 14, four events over three days, Munzey Mania in Minnesota, January 16 to 18, Munzey Mecca in Florida, and March 6 and 7, Munzey Madness is in Southern California, Rob. So that's the ones that are planning for this year and starting into next year as well. Rob, things have happened over the last, since we last spoke. One of the things was this BVG, the Bouncing Virtual Gardens.

Rob (06:36.334)
Woo.

Rob (06:53.282)
Yes.

Craig (06:58.637)
Tell us more about this Rob, but they've been released. They were, look at that. Funnily enough, they were released, as I said, they were released one at a time, you know, so everyone around the world can get their own. And we needed to Rob too, didn't we? What were the sales like?

Rob (07:08.632)
Hehehehehe

Rob (07:12.94)
Yeah. man. It was amazing. It was like going back in time to 2015. Back in some of the early days, we would launch products and we would kind of have to do the same thing. We would space out the launches so that everyone around the world had a chance to get involved because we had limited numbers, limited quantities of different types of things. So I tried that again.

Craig (07:19.747)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (07:42.03)
Thank you to all the players, it was very successful. We were happy to get the gardens filled as quickly as we did. We set this up this way with the plan if they didn't fill that the team accounts were going to fill them because, you know, we have to have full gardens for them to bounce. So, yeah, great response and...

Craig (07:45.305)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (08:04.844)
Super excited about what is happening. No plans at the moment for us to like sell any other bouncing virtual gardens yet because we are using these as experimental. Really. There's not a lot of details out there as far as like what what's guaranteed about this. How long will it sit at a location. Where. What are the locations that they're going to bounce to.

Craig (08:29.602)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Rob (08:32.333)
So maybe we talk about a couple of those little details as we go. Yeah.

Craig (08:36.065)
Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, we did say on the blog as well, they will bounce until August the first, which is all of the birthday month itself, and they will be bouncing around and then they will be archived. So they are temporary. These things are temporary, they're not permanent. But you think about it, Rob, too, the amount of points that these things are gonna get for the amount of the cost value skyrocket compared to any other time.

Cause you think about it, if I'm hosting a big event, for instance, like in Munzee Mania here in Minnesota, and they've got plenty of gardens already and the gardens are sitting here. Once they're capped by the people who are attending, unless there's other Munzee players coming through to cap them, they're not going to get capped again because they've already capped or unless there's an actual bounce that comes on your particular one, that's the only time it's actually going be capped again. So these ones here, they're predominantly they're bouncing around to, I'm going to say all the...

Most of the events would hopefully get these, I won't say all. I'm learning from, yeah, yeah, most of the events will have these bouncing around. There is four different ones. Rob, four different colors for these. They're all the same sort of style. They're a hot air balloon, because they're floating in the air. See, hot air balloon floating in the air from one event to another. So yeah, that's the way it works. Four different colors to signify the four different gardens.

Rob (09:31.308)
Yeah, all all is a dangerous word.

Rob (09:47.246)
Craig (09:52.629)
and there is a badge for each single garden as well. So up to four badges can be obtained. To get the badge, you must cap every single munzee in that actual garden itself. Is that correct? Mm-hmm.

Rob (10:03.832)
That is correct. These are a unique type. They are called a bouncing virtual garden color, if I remember correctly. Like it's a very technical name, obviously, for fun, because why not make it difficult for us to pronounce? But anyway, they are, you can just call it a BVG color, basically. so they are the same color. They are the same style as a regular virtual color.

Craig (10:13.109)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Craig (10:23.927)
Yep.

Craig (10:31.395)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (10:31.822)
But but yeah, they're going to bounce. So the the way that these are built is that they are anchored to a PoI so there's a bouncing virtual garden PoI That is kind of the center point for the garden currently

Craig (10:42.52)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (10:51.662)
This is all a manual process and it is my manuals that are doing it. I am finding and choosing Munzees for these to bounce to. We're not putting any guarantees out there about them making it to every single event, especially not all four gardens, because there will be some weekends where, you know, where there are going to be 15 or 20 events. Having four gardens bounce to all of those events means that you might

Craig (11:01.913)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (11:09.944)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (11:20.65)
see them for 10 minutes. 10 minutes is a stressful race to capture 181 pins 181 pins in each of the hot air balloons and the BBG POF. Craig, 10 minutes is pretty fast to be able to do that, which means that people would would pretty much have to blast. Now, these are blastable types, but

Craig (11:22.275)
Mm-hmm.

Hehehehehe

Mmm.

Craig (11:46.989)
Yeah, that's right.

Rob (11:50.466)
We're not saying, hey, everyone blast these. If you wanted to get them all, obviously blast would be one way to do it. There is a filter in the app so that you could use a filter and be sure to get all of them. However, the current timing system for this is manual and it's of my choosing at the moment. The team has had a conversation.

Craig (12:13.165)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Rob (12:19.198)
I'm going to gather all of our information and our thoughts and I'm I'm practicing right now. So as we're recording, these gardens are just about to launch for the first time and they they are going to start bouncing. So I'm just going to go ahead and say future answer to the question. Everyone's loving it. They're bouncing. They're getting points. This is amazing. By the time this goes live on Friday.

Hopefully the people who have pins in the gardens will have several captures. I do have two of the gardens two of the four already programmed to come near where I'm going to be so that I can verify like these work and you and and we get the badge and you know you know the testing that we need to do. So it's important.

Craig (12:57.006)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (13:07.275)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. like, I like it. You're saying that you're going to put them, everything near you so you can test them when an actual factor is trying to get back ahead of me a little bit further. That's what it is.

Rob (13:15.182)
Well, I mean, it doesn't hurt that I'm that I'm giving myself some points that sadly, I don't think, no, they're they're not going to Minnesota quite yet. That's really weird. I didn't even think about that. OK, good. Well, so that's what's going on. But anyway, the whole point is that for the month of June, pretty much I'm going to be doing some experiments. We're going to try and get them to events.

Craig (13:25.657)
No, no, but I'm leaving Minnesota shortly anyway, but that's all right. That's all right.

Rob (13:42.35)
We're gonna be talking with the event host to see you know how it feels. Lou's already been in touch with our German event host for this weekend and basically said a very vague answer of nothing is guaranteed. We're gonna test some stuff and then we're gonna find out what you think from it. So anyway, we'll see what happens but yeah, these might land at POIs, some popular ones around the world.

Craig (13:42.393)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (13:53.849)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (14:01.345)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Craig (14:10.094)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (14:11.374)
Because events aren't happening 24 7 as we know so there's gonna have to be resting places for these They may go and sit somewhere for six hours or eight hours or 12 hours and That'll give locals a chance to get some caps and then off they go to more events So hopefully that answers some of the questions obviously This might be a chat that we need to have every week just a little bit just to say Here's what I'm doing with BVG's this week

Craig (14:14.871)
Yep. Yeah, exactly.

Craig (14:26.424)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (14:37.005)
Mm hmm. Just say how they are. Yeah.

Rob (14:41.304)
You know? Yeah.

Craig (14:41.525)
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Cause the other thing I was thinking about too, Robert, and that is, know, if it's a non, if it's a non double point weekend, for instance, and I'm going to an event and I get a C, so I see a bouncing virtual garden come across. Should I, shouldn't I, should I, should I grab it? Well, it's up to you to be honest with you. Everything you do, play wise is up to you. You can either a cap it all and blast it all, whatever you want to do, get all the points and get the badge and be done with it. Or B, you can hold off if you.

try to or like to because you can only cap these once. Now there are four different types of gardens. So if you see, know, within the first couple of weeks, whatever, without being double point weekend, that you see all four gardens and you cap all four gardens, then you won't see them again because other people and the event will see them again. What, what Rob, what, what?

Rob (15:27.906)
You know what? For these to count for a double point weekend, we would have to specify that the BVG-C is double points. Hmm. So at this moment in time, that is not on the schedule for the month of July, which means for this experimental set of BVGs, if you see it,

Craig (15:33.272)
Yeah.

yes, it's double points. Yes, this is true. Hmm interesting, Yeah.

No, no, there we go.

Craig (15:55.321)
Mm-hmm.

happen yeah because they're not gonna be double points I like that they're not no points so that's a good see we're having a good meeting right now it didn't click until right there

Rob (15:58.52)
cap it. What do think of that? That? OK. You you and I talked about this. We talked about this off air, didn't we? And it didn't hit me. And then I'm sitting here and I'm I'm partially listening to you and because I'm like, I already know what he's going to say and I'm not sure that I agree with it. But I told him to say it anyway. You know, know how it goes. I do agree with it. But at the same time, I told you that's not how I would play.

Craig (16:15.094)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (16:20.055)
Yeah. Yeah.

Rob (16:27.38)
but that, doesn't matter. because everyone do it, do your thing. But then it hit me like they're not going to be double points. Not in the month of July and not this month. You want them to be double points. Use a virtual capture booster. They will double on that. I know that because that's how I capped the rainbow garden. So yeah. Okay. Good.

Craig (16:27.383)
That's No.

Craig (16:32.972)
That's right, that's right. They're not double points. No, they're separate because they're not, they're not plain virtuals. They're different altogether.

Craig (16:44.907)
Yes, that's right. That's That's fair enough. So there you go. There's a good tip. If you want to make sure when you see it, it no matter what and even chuck on a booster as well. you personally can get your double points on it too. So that's a good plan, Rob. I like that idea. See, we all come out and it all come out of the, in the wash. Nice and clean. Very cool.

Rob (17:04.024)
There you go.

Rob (17:07.79)
That worked.

Craig (17:09.369)
Um, mate, uh, I don't think there's anything else in regards to the bouncy virtual gardens for this week. We may tap on again next week or the week after we'll see how it goes. Meanwhile, Rob, something else happened on Friday the 13th. And now everyone knows Munzee loves Friday the 13th, mostly because of Dylan and, um, and his obsession with Friday the 13th. And we didn't, uh, mention this at all, but these hot headed things came out. So there was, if you didn't realize then, uh, they're all cursed, also known as curse. We've had called them cursed before as well.

Rob (17:24.085)
That's true.

Rob (17:37.454)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (17:39.665)
There's certain Munzees, so there was the cursed Murray, there was the flat cats as well, there was the field, like the Evos were there, I think there was a diamonds, and maybe one of the Earth mystery or something like that too. And Urban Fit, yeah exactly, so they're the ones that were actually cursed themselves. And we didn't put anything out until halfway through the day, and so there's lots and lots of questions online Rob, and lots of chat about it too. First and foremost, I will say, a great

Rob (17:47.309)
Yeah.

Rob (17:51.694)
Urban fit, yeah.

Rob (18:04.002)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Craig (18:08.097)
great job to the artwork on these. Like they look fantastic. If you think cats are cute, then have a look at these cats because it was like one cat gnawing at the other one. Murray is normally cute, but Murray had fangs this time as well. So it was really, the artwork on was really, really cool. You can, there's other complaints saying, especially with the physicals saying, you know, how can I swap with another person? You don't have to. If you deploy what one of the, curse, it will be cursed straight away and you can cap the curse off it.

Rob (18:20.664)
Yeah. Yeah.

Craig (18:36.535)
So that's what I put that on the water cooler as well. And there were badges offered for capping all the curse types and also some of the wisps as well, Rob. that's what happened with those. Any other questions or any other ideas in regards to the Friday the 13th?

Rob (18:52.31)
No, the advice that you've just given is good to tuck away for next year because there's not another Friday the 13th this year. In case everyone hasn't figured it out, in the past we did flat day the 13th. And last year we said we're done with flat day the 13th and we're moving in a new direction. And so this this new direction is the cursed mobs.

Craig (18:55.16)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (18:58.552)
Yes.

Craig (19:07.509)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (19:13.069)
Hmm.

Rob (19:18.54)
and it fits into the CAPI's universe, if you will. So yeah, just remember in the future that if you don't have it near you, just deploy it and then you can cap it, then you can get it. So yeah, there you go.

Craig (19:21.729)
Yeah. Yeah.

Craig (19:28.963)
Mm-hmm.

You can cap the curse off it. Exactly, ideal. Meanwhile, Robert, as we speak and record this podcast, new brand new secret, Xeox, Xeox, Xeox came out and you did mention this last week and said to keep an eye out for it. But you said the 15th last week, because said the 15th is halfway through the month. The middle, the 17th.

Rob (19:44.854)
I did, yeah.

Well, right, because they always or usually always is a bad word. They usually come out on or around the 15th. Today is on or around its or around, you know, the 15th. So there you go. Yeah.

Craig (20:02.317)
Yeah, that's fair enough. That's fair enough. Let's talk about the secret Zops of the time being and let people know if they haven't seen it already. It is called the Fire Fight. It is 1500 Zeds in the App Store only. So you can only get it in the App Store. Best way to do it, Rob, is to go on your little red secret Zops, little target in the bottom right-hand corner, click that button, and then you got the daily. And next to it, you got secret. Click that secret and you can purchase it from there in that little secret part. Rob, you did mention before when we did speak about Zops, and that is...

If you can open one of the level at a time, or you can open all of them at the same time, it's up to you. It doesn't matter either way, because as soon as you open that level, whatever is required for that level is being captured by you anyway. So you can open all or just one at a time. It's up to you to do that that way too. So that's really cool. Now, Rob, let's talk about the, happens at the end, the end of this secret. What do they get?

Rob (20:54.722)
Well, at the end, you get a flame guardian mech, which, you know, we always spell the word one of the words weird. So FL four three. So flame guardian mech. you know what you always enjoy seeing and it gets posted online because everyone actually enjoys it. Like who's going to be first? Who's going to get mech number one? OK, tell us who it was this time.

Craig (20:58.136)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (21:04.622)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (21:10.233)
It does straight away, straight away. Yeah. This time, well, she's had mech number one a few times before and that is Humbert7 got it this time. Well done to Humbert7, mech 001. She was first to finish the whole secret zeops. So again, that goes to prove though, if you haven't got this secret zeops, it can be done in a day Rob. It can be done in a couple of hours.

Rob (21:23.886)
Uh-oh.

Craig (21:36.907)
unlike other secret zeops whereby you have control and you.

Rob (21:40.558)
That's funny. I was going to say exactly that. You know that I didn't build this one 100 % because it was doable in less than a day.

Craig (21:45.745)
Yeah, that's right. That's right. Exactly. So I like it, Rob, when you do it and you say, you know, the streaks, for instance, the cap, cap, a Munzee in three days in a row and all that sort of stuff too. So that's pretty cool. So you can tell that the Rob didn't have the handles on this one at all. I knew that straight away, but otherwise, other than that, as you're doing it though, you don't have to rush and do it. And I always say, Rob, remember.

Rob (22:01.998)
That is true, that's very funny.

Craig (22:13.869)
take your time and actually have a look and read through the thing because again, Dylan does a lot of work in the back end with the storytelling of these types of mechs as well. So you can see the back end storytelling of this one and the reason why this mech is named the way it is is looks the way it does, et cetera as well. So yeah, Dylan does a lot of hard work in regards to that too. just have a look. If only for your own sake and for your own sanity to realize all that's the reason why it looks that way or acts that way for instance, that sort of thing too. What are your thoughts on that?

Rob (22:42.092)
Yeah. yeah, you know, we put a lot of work into it. Why not? Why not enjoy it? I agree.

Craig (22:49.164)
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Or it might, we're a bit early, but that's okay. Cause I'm going to get him a couple of questions coming through after that as well. Uh, the question of the week, the question of the week came through, uh, numerous places on the water cooler, Rob. And this, this is after, after Friday the 13th came out as well. And they said, what happened with the points mix up with the hot head of wisps? Now, if people don't know what happened itself, then the, these, these mechs and mechs.

Rob (22:56.334)
Hmm.

Craig (23:17.069)
mixing my mech up again, the mobs, the curse came through and what they did was they threw wisps. Wisps are like those little cursed whips, the ones that you get from the wishing well sometimes. Yeah, and so you cap those. Now those were showing at the time, they were showing 150 points each. So people were going out there and smashing all these wisps and they were using rover treats to get these wisps and everything else as well. And then they'd come back at the end of the day. Some people, you know, got 10, some people got 100 wisps, Rob.

Rob (23:18.562)
The mobs.

Rob (23:27.756)
Wishing well, yeah.

Craig (23:44.73)
And then the wisps themselves only gave 10 points. I think it was per per wisp rather than the 150 So everyone was asking online what's going on, which is the real point value, etc, etc from that So what happened in that regard robin regards to the point system?

Rob (24:01.068)
Yeah, so, you know, the what happened. Here's the quick, honest, easy story. Made a mistake. Number was wrong. They got put into the system instead of it being 10. It was 150. Once the MHQ day started, that was discovered and fixed. So there's been a behind the scenes discussion that has not concluded as of

Craig (24:10.733)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (24:30.762)
recording time that you know we launched this silently with no information and the information didn't go out until 12 hours in by that 12 hours you know we've figured out there was an issue we're fixing that issue and then once you see the facts then it's like okay so yeah they were supposed to be 10 other players have pointed out the fact that wisps count

Craig (24:32.057)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (24:41.56)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (24:53.059)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (24:58.584)
for 10 points like their 10 points, the normal ones. So it would be strange for us for to have changed anything from the past. However, when you see 150 points, you know, then some people are like, no, I'm not going to cap anymore, because it's wrong. And you know, what if that's considered taking advantage of the deal? And so I get all of what used to be fear and all that kind of stuff.

Craig (25:00.011)
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah.

Craig (25:22.221)
Yeah.

Rob (25:27.512)
Bad things don't happen to people anymore. For many of that stuff, we changed the points. That was it. The rest of the conversation right now is about looking at the rover treats that were used during the wrong point time period with a possibility of refunding some of those rover treats.

Craig (25:41.709)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (25:45.091)
Right.

Craig (25:50.137)
the river treats.

Rob (25:51.138)
Probably not every single one because you know, there are some people who use rover treats as if Rover treats are free me and you but you know, I I know that there are other people who do that kind of thing because they just don't want to go 400 feet to get that but they do want the points regardless of what the number of points are. So anyway, there was a problem. We're fixing it.

Craig (25:54.637)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (26:01.657)
Yeah.

Craig (26:08.088)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (26:11.723)
Yeah. Yeah. That's right. That's right.

Rob (26:19.694)
We're looking into the second tier of fixing which is going back and making right the the one piece and and really a lot of that doesn't get pointed out to us until it comes in through a support ticket so everyone needs to remember that even though you and a lot of us are in the water cooler that does not mean that that gets translated into the team actually knows about this and the team is doing something about this so

Craig (26:19.801)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (26:35.05)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Craig (26:45.101)
That's right. That's Yeah.

Rob (26:48.726)
Support tickets are important. And then to jump off of this question and say that we had the issue where the entire app went offline and actually not the app, the whole game went offline for an hour last week. I'm very happy that that was not our fault and there was not a single thing that we could do about it. And like it was Google cloud. was all of that stuff and big companies were affected too.

Craig (27:00.85)
yes, the whole game went off on. Yeah. Yep. Yep. That's right.

Craig (27:15.193)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Rob (27:18.87)
You know, that kind of thing happens and we got a lot of support tickets from that because, the app's not working. Something is wrong. So we understand if support tickets come in and we will respond to all of those. We will deal with it. So, so thank you to those who did send support to get in, ask any question. And like I said, we're finishing that up. That was a very long answer to say, we're sorry for the trouble.

Craig (27:25.111)
Yep. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Craig (27:39.833)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (27:45.378)
we're gonna see what last piece there is to fix that for all of you.

Craig (27:48.601)
Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. And you were right to in regards to the app. forgot totally, I forgot about Rob, the app that did. And yeah, yeah, that's right. And again, if you don't know what basically happened is that it literally logged everyone out of all their accounts when anything to do with this Google cloud was, it wasn't to do with Munzee, wasn't to do. And as you said, Rob as well, bigger companies and Munzee were affected by this a lot harder than what Munzee were. So.

Rob (27:55.202)
Yeah, it just hit me.

Rob (28:04.043)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (28:13.985)
yeah.

Craig (28:15.041)
Munzee is just a game at the end of the day. It's just a game. It's a fun game. We all play and we all enjoy. that's yeah. And, it's a, and it's a fun way to sort of, to roast your, your fellow friends like you, Rob, because I'm going to catch you this weekend. Anyway, the Munzee tip of the week, Rob, this tip come from Vado tech and it's a very good tip. And this tip came.

Rob (28:19.468)
And we all tell ourselves that, don't we? Yeah, right. So, yeah.

Rob (28:29.262)
We'll see.

Craig (28:38.115)
Came from Vadotech a couple of weeks ago. Rob, do remember a couple of weeks ago, I think it was Vadotech and Tofu Girl, and they went skyrocket through the leaderboard, above and beyond anyone else coming in third place. Anyway, he responded to me, he goes, this is the reason why, and this is his tip of the week as well. He says, when traveling, look for old locations of big Munzee events. They always have leftover Munzees to cap and cap and cap. Rob, he calls them a Munzecation. I like that.

Munchcation. So if he's going through a particular area, et cetera, as well, he may go divert slightly to an old area, such as the Munzey Mania, sort of here in Minnesota. They've had different areas where they've hit and they've got leftover gardens, for instance, or leftover Munzey's place, et cetera. So he goes to those ones and diverts to those sort of areas. And literally, I think a lot of blasts will go through and just to get rid of them all. Or you sit there for a few hours and hand cap, it's up to you. Play as you like.

Rob (29:32.494)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yep.

Craig (29:37.101)
That's his tip of the week, right? think that's a very good tip too.

Rob (29:39.854)
That's a great, great plan. Sounds good? Yeah.

Craig (29:41.823)
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. So that's a good tip for you, Rob, as well, when I, I, when I surpass you. So.

Rob (29:46.232)
us.

Rob (29:49.774)
there, there are pockets in Florida that I have not kept yet. The question is, am I, am I going to take the time to, to delay? She gets out on her bike and then I'm a, and then I'm quote free, you know? So, yeah, we'll see.

Craig (29:53.825)
Yeah.

No, you're not. No, you're not. If you're with Lou, that's a no. If you're with Lou, then it's a no. But if you buy, that's true. That's true. That's true. No, that's understandable. But Rob, you gonna, when I do get ahead of you, are you gonna knight me? Am I gonna be a knight and I can be surpass? I'll be surpass. wow, there you go.

Rob (30:19.018)
A nightmare, yeah.

Craig (30:23.893)
Alright Rob, guess what mate, that's it, that's it. This ends another official Munzee podcast.

Rob (30:28.835)
thank goodness. thanks for joining us on this Munzee adventure.

Craig (30:30.649)
Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcasting app and join us next week for another informative episode.

Rob (30:38.135)
And remember, Munzee is more than a game, it's a worldwide community of mobile game players.

Craig (30:43.075)
So keep scanning, keep discovering, keep that Munzey spirit alive. One, two, three, I'm gonna beat you this weekend. Munzey, Munzey on, Munzey on, Munzey on, always.

Rob (30:47.704)
Be a loser! No. on everyone! Except you. Except you.


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