Official Munzee Podcast

Munzee Weekly Podcast - Friday July 18th, 2025

• Rob Vardeman & Craig Michell • Season 3 • Episode 29

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In this episode of the Munzee Podcast, hosts Rob and Craig discuss recent events, leaderboard updates, and their personal experiences with the game. They delve into the excitement surrounding the Bouncing Virtual Gardens (BVG), upcoming events, and new game features, including the return of the Traveling Troop, release of new cards and Widdlz Season 2. The hosts also highlight the importance of community engagement and the various ways players can earn points and rewards. The episode concludes with a Q&A segment addressing player inquiries about game mechanics and future updates.


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Craig (00:01.132)
Welcome to the official Munzee Podcast.

Rob (00:03.515)
I'm Rob, also known as Coach V, your host and the president of Munzee.

Craig (00:07.47)
And I'm Craig, also known as Seemyshell, I started as an avid Munzee player, now proudly part of the team.

Rob (00:12.947)
Each week we'll delve into Munzee's mysteries, dive into Olgson's secrets, and inform players from around the world just what is coming your way.

Craig (00:19.586)
So sit back, relax, today's episode is huge. We've got whittles, cards, mushrooms, troops, battles. Rob, so much going on in this. I didn't realize, Rob, how much we have put out in the last seven days, Rob, seven days. But we'll get onto that very, very soon, mate. In the meantime, we won't even talk about it. Well, we will.

Rob (00:36.615)
It's been a busy one, that's for sure. Yeah.

Rob (00:47.115)
Not yet.

Craig (00:47.136)
at the end of the episode because I'll make sure of it. Not yet. But all I'll say is this, and that is the battle has been fun. The Battle of the Bards, a lot of fun. I see a lot of people getting involved, which is lots of good fun to see. I see a lot of movement happening, Rob, on the leaderboard too.

Rob (01:02.442)
Yeah.

Craig (01:03.64)
yeah, up and down, up and down, different, you know, different teams going up and down, you know, even, even storm got in first place for a couple of hours last weekend, which was good. And then, and then came the accidents. So, wow, wow, wow. So anyway, we'll talk about that at the end. I know. I know.

Rob (01:13.227)
Happy Hell.

Rob (01:16.777)
Yeah. It's nice to share. Yeah, it's nice to share. Crimson Chalice, you know, slipped down the leaderboard. Star Sirens, hello, are you out there? Knock, knock. Yeah. But it's been a good time, you're right. But let's hold that until the end and get through this massive week. What have you been up to? Start us off. Yeah.

Craig (01:28.798)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Yes. Yeah.

I've been traveling Rob, I'm a traveler, I'm a traveler. I've had time up my sleeve for the last week or so before the next big event down in Waseon, Ohio and the Munzee event there as well. But I've been up in Michigan and I thought, well I've got time on my hands, why not travel all the up of Michigan, the upper peninsula of Michigan, up area. And so I've done the every single county in upper peninsula Michigan, Every county, yeah.

Rob (02:06.827)
Wow, that sounds like, okay, so if I ask you about a map, I'm just kidding, we won't do that this week. Up, that is a good explanation of where it is,

Craig (02:13.652)
No, because you've learned it from last week. You've learned it from last week. You've probably got a map up now. And I sent you a map as well via text message yesterday to show you where I was, Rohan.

Rob (02:25.023)
That is true. looks like it covers a lot of ground. I've never been up into that area. So how's it been? mean, lots of driving, cool area. What's happening?

Craig (02:28.588)
Hmm. Yeah.

Craig (02:33.998)
Yes, yeah, and lots of driving. Lots of not very much cell service as well. And literally, Rob, I've been getting maybe one or two cashes per county and then moving on from there. I've been using things like Harvest Host again to stay. There's no Cracker Barrels, Rob, no Cracker Barrels. I've been using Harvest Host to stay at some breweries here and there. Or Ioverlander to show me the free campsites.

Rob (02:41.331)
yeah.

Rob (02:53.523)
Wow.

Craig (03:01.942)
And one of the free campsites, Rob, again, a beautiful sunset over a lake, you know, free campsite. It was gorgeous. I had the door open the entire evening until all the mosquitoes came. But, you know, apart from that, I even went for a swim in the lake. I went for a swim in the lake, Rob. I know. In the upper peninsula of Michigan. Who would have thought? So.

Rob (03:15.167)
Yeah.

Rob (03:20.501)
What? Wow. I mean...

Rob (03:26.987)
Alright, not me, that's for sure. Sounds cool.

Craig (03:28.618)
No, no. And again, I, Rob, I didn't realize geographically wise as well that the upper peninsula of Michigan is actually attached to Wisconsin. So it is actually attached in borders Wisconsin, but doesn't attach to Michigan at all. So you've to go over the bridge, the Meccan bridge. I boarded it. Mackinac. That's it. The Mackinac.

Rob (03:48.607)
Mackinaw, but it's called Mackinaw. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Craig (03:51.636)
Mackinac, yeah, Mackinac Bridge, beautiful bridge too. Anyway, we're wasting time Rob with all my travels. What have you been up to, mate? Because there's been a lot of chat on the water cooler in regards to last weekend and all the events and everyone was getting all those BVGs, the bouncing virtual gardens. Is that you?

Rob (03:55.979)
No.

Rob (04:07.081)
Yeah. Yeah. So, I am now a part-time Munzee president and a part-time BVG monitor. it is an unbelievable task. when, when we had this idea, I am certain that we did not think up, just how much time it might take, if we wanted to do it right. And I feel like, you know, w we've had lots of conversations on the team.

Craig (04:16.878)
I

Craig (04:31.822)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (04:36.299)
The way to do it right is to have a human eye on it. And so for now, it's Mari continues to check in with me. Hey, are you are you going completely crazy yet? I'm like, Nope, not yet. So I've gone through several different processes of how I'm dealing with the BVG. But yeah, we we now have 11 bouncing virtual gardens. We started with one at the Rainbow Garden. We then moved on, you know, and added added four.

Craig (04:39.277)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (04:48.078)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Craig (04:56.78)
Wow. Wow.

Craig (05:01.966)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (05:05.195)
then an event garden. And then this week, you built, five more, birthday cakes and, yeah, 11 total. So it's a full time part-time job. so yeah. speaking of events, I went and visited with Sam's family. Yeah. So, they had an event for his dad's birthday on Friday evening. I couldn't go Friday evening, but I was driving through the area Saturday. So I stopped by and,

Craig (05:10.478)
Yes, birthday cake with wind gardens.

Craig (05:23.598)
Mmm.

Craig (05:28.076)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (05:34.571)
kept the pink event indicator pins so that you and I would have one of those for clan war requirements doing my part. And then blasted all the cards and verts and all that stuff. And yeah, Sam's whole family was there, so I got to chat with them for a few minutes before I had to move on. So it was good.

Craig (05:39.586)
Ha

Craig (05:45.72)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (05:52.502)
I did see that Rob because I mean, and I thought to myself, what the, Rob didn't tell me he's going to an event or anything. like, you you didn't keep me in the loop and here I was, I looked and luckily for me, I've got enough buffer on you overall points that you didn't catch me at all. Even with your 1.2 million points you got the other day. So you still didn't catch me. You're still over a million points behind. So I was happy with that. Cause there's no, I'll tell you now Rob, Michigan, it's not much in Muncie, Michigan.

Rob (06:05.57)
Hahaha!

Rob (06:10.163)
Yep. No, I did not. I know. I know.

Craig (06:19.918)
There's not much, there's a few players here and there, but there's not much else. So I think it had a to do with cell service as well. anyway, all right, Rob, on the weekend, the weekend that was, had four events in New York, Indiana, Missouri, South Carolina, Florida, New Jersey, Minnesota, Texas, Orlando, is Orlando for? Oregon, Oregon, I was gonna say Orlando, Utah, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Alabama, around the world,

Rob (06:24.021)
Yep.

That's true.

Rob (06:38.855)
Oregon.

Rob (06:46.667)
British Columbia, Canada, UK, five Netherlands, Finland, Germany and Denmark.

Craig (06:53.486)
And the leaderboards over the weekend, Rob, in Friday first place, as he should be, the man himself, W. Helen, with two million points, followed in second place by Giannelli, 55, on 1.6 million. Stinger, Stinger, 1.5 million. If you don't know who Stinger is, Stinger is a lovely, lovely lady up in the West New York region, and she has the geocachingcentral.com website, which she promotes, co-exists.

So she has Munzee links on her website as well for geocachingcentral.com. That's Stinger. Stinger Rob. Yes, that's Stinger.

Rob (07:29.683)
Is it? I was gonna say... No, I think I know her name. I met her at Geo Woodstock, right? Yeah, okay. Okay. I won't say the wrong name then.

Craig (07:36.238)
Yes, yes you did. Yes you did. But Rob there was, no, no, there was six millionaires in total. We also had Q 22, Q 17 with 1.2 million. Jackpot Gene, Jackpot Gene's back on the leaderboard as well. And Gallon with 1.1 million points. Rob, I'll flick it over to you on Saturday.

Rob (07:49.781)
CLEAR!

Rob (07:55.491)
boy, here we go. had 24 millionaires. So hold on, everybody. And coming in first place, Native in UK, three point one million K for K man, two point eight million Q twenty two Q seventeen two million. And the rest of the millionaires Flipper family, one point eight million W. Helen, one point seven million. Raven on the road, Cole Cracker seven one point six million. And why boss and.

Craig (07:58.638)
the

Rob (08:23.467)
Jackpot Jean 1.4 million gallon KP crystal 07 1.3 million I'm losing my mind and a banana and Giannelli 55 1.2 million the good ex-wife Fens 2LR Shigety finder 400 Jaffa 43 all with 1.1 million and our 1 millions to round it out. Hey, it's geocaching vlogger.

Mrs. C.B., Boomerang20, Yankerbox, TheLanes, and Logan Ninja.

Craig (08:59.656)
And well done to everyone who is first time millionaires to the last weekend. Cause there's a few, a few first time millionaires to Rob. yeah, Rob, you are Rob. Wow. Here we go. On Sunday we had seven millionaires in total. In first place we had Bullseye Shooter with 1.2 million points. Regal with 1.1 million points. Gallon again on the leaderboard with 1.1 million points. That's three for Gallon. And again, the rounding out millionaires we have,

Rob (09:03.764)
Huge.

Yeah, I am.

Craig (09:27.02)
Q22, Q17 again, she's on the lead, well, three millionaires in three days in a row. Vony, FRLK, all with 1.1 million. And then rounding out the millionaires for the third time, the third day in a row, have Jack Pochie, again, with one million points. So well done to all the millionaires over the week. And we knew there were gonna be a few. We did know there was gonna be a few with those big events, as well as the triple points with mailbox holders, et cetera, et cetera, from there too. So well done to everyone. And I will shout out Rob.

Rob (09:53.418)
Yeah.

Craig (09:56.385)
My favorite of last weekend's leaderboard names is the good ex-wife. So there you go. That's a great username by the way. I know, I know. The events are off for this weekend.

Rob (10:03.095)
I think that's pretty funny as well. Couldn't help but laugh when I read that one. So for those of you who didn't manage to make it, sorry, cut off there.

Craig (10:17.964)
No, no, you go.

Rob (10:20.881)
so the, the, those of you didn't make it to the Western New York events, a lot of those names come from those events. So, congrats to those hosts and the main host was bullseye shooter. So, yeah, congrats to those hosts. obviously some good events and tons of deploys, everywhere around the world fills out the rest of this as well. But just wanted to point that out.

Craig (10:28.302)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (10:36.526)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (10:42.388)
Nice, nice. But this weekend, Rob, around the USA we have Minnesota, Massachusetts, California, Texas, Nebraska, Rob, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and New Hampshire. I did good again, Rob. I did good again. And around the world.

Rob (10:55.435)
Yes, it says KC. KC is not a state, you must have it. Kansas City. don't know. Maybe it's. Yeah. Anyway, around the world, it's a Finland, Germany, Sweden, UK, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Queensland, Western Australia and North Southwest. No, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia. We do.

Craig (11:04.993)
Yeah.

Craig (11:17.518)
Yes, Rob, three, three in Australia, Queensland versus Western Australia versus New South Wales. Now in Australia, a lot of people don't know except for Australians, that Queensland and New South Wales are the two biggest loggerheads when it comes to state versus state. They do a football match called the State of Origin. And it's always Queensland versus New South Wales, the Cockroaches versus the Cane Toads. So they have three big matches every single year.

Come on, let's do that for Munzee as well. Queensland versus Western Australia versus New South Wales. Who can get the most people at their events? Who can get the most deploys? And, why wanna see Rob? For next week, I wanna see some Australian names on that millionaire leaderboard. What do you think?

Rob (12:03.943)
I agree. Let's see it. Let's have it happen. Yep. Lots of events. Everybody watch for those BVG is because they will be bouncing around. There will not be five at all of the events though can tell you that much they're going to be spread out.

Craig (12:05.718)
Hmm. Exactly.

Craig (12:11.822)
Craig (12:18.382)
There's too many events, there's too much headache for Rob as well. And also there's less timeframe as they're bouncing as well for people to cap them too. So that's fine. Meanwhile, Rob, big events coming up as well. As I said before, July 25th, Munzee at Bash in Wasiena, Ohio. I will be there for that one. August 10th is West Bend Munzee Bash. That's a new one as well. If you're going to the geocaching event as well, pop this one in your little suitcase. I'll be there for that one too, Rob. August 10th.

Rob (12:41.493)
I will.

Craig (12:48.012)
West Bend Munzee Bash, I'll be there for that one. Then there's September 12 to 14, four events over three days of Munzee Mania in Minnesota, I'll be there for that one. January 16 to 18, Munzee Mecca in Florida, I'll be there for that one. March 6 and 7, Munzee Madness is back again in Southern California, I'll be there for that one. So there we go Rob, the big events I will be at, all of them from now on because yeah, I didn't see any more in the UK or Europe sort of area. If there is any, reach out, let me know. I'll go from there.

Rob (12:48.331)
Very good.

Rob (13:14.665)
Yeah, absolutely.

Craig (13:17.71)
All right, Rob, let's get on to 13 minutes into this already. Come on, we've got to get a start. Okay, quickly go through a couple of these and that is first and foremost, Rob, this five brand new cards were released last Friday. They're the Jammin' cards. They are not part of the Battle cards. These are just the cards that come out, the new cards that come out every single month. Five new cards, they look pretty cool. Get them. Rob, do you get a badge with them if you kept them all or? Don't think so. No.

Rob (13:40.616)
I don't think so. Nice question. Neither of us know the answer to that, which means probably not. is, Sam's shaking his head. No, we don't get a badge. So that's good. I'm envisioning him, obviously.

Craig (13:47.96)
Probably not, yeah.

Yep, that's fine. But yeah, they're five new cards. Look at them. They're pretty cool. They're all band related, but they're not part of the Battle of the Bards. Rob, we've got the bonus. Munchroom came out as well. Talk about the lady Munchroom, the Lemurcron. Lemucron.

Rob (14:05.513)
right. Lemma cron. Yeah, who knows how it's been it said but yes, lemma cron is is a temporary mushroom. And so this one comes out with the skin. The way to keep the skin permanently is to earn earn the the permanent one for next year. And that means that you have deployed eight across the entire year.

Craig (14:29.048)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (14:33.899)
So be sure that you take a peek at that one. It's a cool design. really like it

Craig (14:33.902)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (14:39.35)
Yeah, yeah, really cool. Very, very cool to see. Yeah, and that's still available in the in-app store as well for that one. No, online store, sorry. Online store, online store, not in-app, sorry. Again, again. Wow, Rob, we did our research for this one really well. Mate, the Whittles, Whittles Series 2 has been released. Now that is in the in-app store, the Whittles 2 Series, Whittles Trunks. You hinted at this last week, Rob. They work the same as Whittles 1.

Rob (14:45.163)
no online. Good try there. Yep.

Really?

Rob (15:04.298)
Yeah.

Craig (15:08.362)
Now what that means is there's eight in total and each time you open a mystery trunk you get one type of the eight. If you get a second one of the eight of the same type it goes to level two, three, four, et cetera up to level 10. They do not, the actual levels do not expire. The levels don't expire, the widows do. So after a period of time the widows will go off the map as always and you can rebuild them from wishes in the wishing wells.

exactly the same as Whittle's one trunks. But Rob, the only difference is is that Whittle's one trunks you said last week are not going away. But after the team met with you yesterday, what's happening to the Whittle's one trunk?

Rob (15:45.835)
Yeah, exactly.

Rob (15:53.523)
Yeah, so we had a little discussion about this and talked about what makes sense. And what makes sense is that we kind of run this the same way that we do secret Z ops secret Z ops are launched. And then we've all them. And I use that word from like Disney Disney vaults movies. So they release them on DVD, and then they put them in the vault and they bring them back out years later or whenever they feel like it. So we kind of do the same thing with secret Z ops.

Craig (16:02.958)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (16:11.47)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (16:16.386)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (16:20.099)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (16:21.219)
And now with the Whittles Series 1. So Whittles Series 1 is going to be available through the end of this month, August 1st at some point in time on August 1st. The the the season or Series 1 trunk will disappear, but fret not one day it shall return. If I were going to guess, I would say before the end of the year, but not much before the end of the year. That would be my best guess.

Craig (16:29.112)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (16:38.83)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (16:50.965)
Exactly. But in saying that Rob, if you are one of those types where you're like, Oh, well, no, I've got to get them all now before they just, just so I can have them all. Then yes, get your series one widows now, um, before the August 1st, before the August 1st, 150 Z per trunk and open them up and you get your new widows. The best thing about the widows, I feel Rob is that the higher the level, the cheaper they are for stars to actually rebuild. Now a lot of people say, you know, um, uh,

They're not getting enough. They don't feel like they're getting enough twigs etc to you know to compensate for these that but a lot of people don't understand that these are literally a free Bouncer all you have to do is collect your free daily stars every single day And you can get your your free widow Rob. So this is a free gameplay free game piece. So that's what it is

Rob (17:40.277)
after you spend the 150 Zeds. But you can get the 150 Zeds for free as well. It is possible. You can accumulate rewards and things like that through plans, through all kinds of different channels. yeah, just enjoy them everyone, enjoy.

Craig (17:42.966)
Yes.

Yeah.

Craig (17:49.955)
Mm-hmm.

Exactly. So exactly, exactly. But if you do want to get your widows one, then get it done before August 1st. That is your last and final warning before it goes away on August 1st. Meanwhile, Rob also been released as the traveling troop has reappeared. The traveling troop. It's back.

Rob (18:10.517)
Hello, it's back. It's the traveling troop, the menagerie of Munzee team members. Yeah, so we, you know, we've had the this circus of sorts that's come to town several times now in the past and it's back. So you've got the traveling troop like a stagecoach that lands on flats all around the map. And you cap it. It scatters.

Craig (18:24.174)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (18:32.074)
Mm-hmm. Flat.

Rob (18:38.975)
different performers. And if you cap the performer, then they scatter different props that they use. So, you know, looking for some additional points. Here you go. Here's a it's a mob. It's a Munzeon bouncer. That's what we call these whenever we put them out. And it's going to be with us for the rest of the month. So enjoy.

Craig (18:40.675)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (18:45.899)
Exactly.

Craig (18:50.516)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Craig (19:01.282)
Very, very cool. if you don't, again, if you don't understand the gameplay, all you can do is if you see it, it. That's it. Or if you see it, cap it. That's the main part about the NES.

Rob (19:08.073)
I agree.

Rob (19:11.627)
I don't have any flats around me. What should I do? See my shell?

Craig (19:16.488)
get someone to deploy flats for you or you can deploy for yourself. But if you, the thing is, and that's the other thing, a lot of people, they do, deploy for themselves around the area, but you can't actually cap that flat on only the bounces on it, you see. Whereas if you reach out on the water cooler or even your clan members and you swap bounces, swap out flats for each other, then you can cap the flat beforehand and you both get points. And then, Rob, the best part about that, when you cap the bouncer off that flat, then you're clan mate.

Rob (19:18.922)
Craig (19:45.72)
gets points for the cap on as well. So as opposed to it being on your flat, you don't get cap on points for capping your own flat, Rob. So, you do?

Rob (19:47.851)
That is true.

Rob (19:53.436)
I guess you do. So that's weird. You're welcome, Sam. You do get cap on points because you get the capture points and you get the cap on points. It's quite nice. That's one of the benefits of the way that we built this whole weird system. Yeah, man.

Craig (20:03.534)
Oh. Oh. I thought it was come up as zero. I thought it came up as zero. I'm like, no.

Rob (20:11.211)
It depends on now Sam's gonna say, Rob, you were wrong, because if there's a bouncer on it, I think you might be right. Anyway, Sam will correct the two of us. We're gonna hold it to ourselves and we're never going to tell anyone else the correct answer, but Sam will fix us with the correct answer. Here's what I was. I was partially even listening to you because I was checking to see can you magnetize flats? I thought you could.

Craig (20:21.59)
That's what I'm saying.

Craig (20:29.486)
I'm telling you.

you

Craig (20:39.714)
Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes.

Rob (20:40.051)
And the answer is yes, you can. So if you deploy one near yourself, then you might, if you're trying to get more of these traveling troops so that you can get the past badges, you can magnetize and you've got a chance. It's not guaranteed. You've got a chance of drawing one of those traveling troop specials.

Craig (20:44.951)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (21:00.302)
Exactly. And I was going to say, Rob, that's what I do when I pull up to my rest stop for the night. I'll put out a flat Aussie and a bed normally, a little bed emoji. And what that does is shows people, you know, other players out there where I am for the night, they can deploy cards or whatever else as well. And very thankful for that. Thank you for all those who do that. I wake up to a nice little plethora, Rob. But what I do then, Rob, is I actually magnetize that.

Rob (21:20.937)
Hehehe.

Craig (21:24.056)
flat, my own flat, I magnetize and bounces come. And that's why I say Rob, that I don't get cap on points for the bounces that I cap on my own flat.

Rob (21:31.647)
Well, you definitely have more experience there. My apologies for being wrong. Well done.

Craig (21:36.0)
Yeah. Wow. Sam's going to give us a full on like a full list. Like a, it's going to be like a, almost a book of this episode. I can get, I can feel it already. I feel it already. Meanwhile, Rob, we're going to move on now to this weekend with his double points this weekend on greenies, cards, temporary, virtuals, flats, colors and jewels. And then they're also triple points if you do have a mailbox.

Rob (21:45.097)
Yep, that's how we do it.

Rob (22:03.011)
Yippee, everybody enjoy. I mean, you know, this is your chance. Here we go. Only one more weekend after this one to get those double triple points. So yeah, get them.

Craig (22:04.334)
Yes, Mm-hmm, exactly. Yeah. Exactly. But those double, triple points also include deploying as well. So if you want to start to do, in your own area, for instance, and you can push the premium, you can cap your own greenies, you want to do your own greenie trial, for instance, you can cap every day, deploy them on one of these weekends so you get double the greenie points.

and your clan members for this month, we're gonna love you because of the greenie points that are required for this month as well. So that's a good tip for you there, Rob. Meanwhile, you've got there the birthday sale starts today. What's the birthday sale?

Rob (22:38.272)
Thank you.

Rob (22:42.082)
Yeah, so we've got a birthday sale that we've been doing something 14 % off from Friday through Sunday every weekend and well, it's back and this time we've got the stamps in there. We'll talk about why in just a second, but we've also got jewels and the virtuals. So just the plain white virtuals which come with the color as well. So.

Craig (22:48.706)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (22:57.254)
Craig (23:04.024)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (23:08.317)
Now is your time if you've been looking to stock up and help build virtual gardens or whatever. All the jewels, physical and virtual and then the virtual colors. In addition to stamps, are you ready to talk about stamps and why?

Craig (23:11.586)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Craig (23:21.646)
I am ready to quote about stamps because listen, okay, if you're not part of the Stormbound, you can stop the episode now, but if you're Stormbound, listen up very carefully. If you're Stormbound only, this is just for you. And that is we need to redeem stamps for the Battle of the Bards cards. And I will say, Rob, this is a message for everyone. Start, if you've only got 10 stamps, start with the highest value.

Rob (23:30.539)
Don't even do it.

Rob (23:42.656)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (23:50.286)
Don't start with the low value card, start with the highest value card and put that out and that will help your clan members.

Rob (23:57.087)
Which one is that? Which one's the highest one? It's the arena, I believe, but Sam will correct us. Yeah, if I remember correctly.

Craig (23:59.982)
Don't put me on the spotlight there Rob, I don't know.

The arena. Well, fair enough, fair enough. But yeah, so that's what you do. And so you get the stamps themselves. otherwise, Rob, if you've got all the stamps you need, because everyone has only got a certain amount, start redeeming now. Redeem those stamps for your Battle of the Bards cards ASAP. Rob, I will say this, and that is that, yes, I have redeemed all of my cards that are available to me. I haven't deployed them all yet, but I've redeemed them all now.

Rob (24:15.851)
Yeah.

Rob (24:30.725)
What? Okay. I'd say that if I were you too. it is the Arena Show. Okay.

Craig (24:34.868)
Arena show Rob and an arena show Rob Arena show is the highest value card followed in by the stage coach after that then the the barn card after that followed by the mandolin the drums and then the the liar card Is the last one so there you go. You're welcome

Rob (24:50.591)
Okay, thank you. Very good. So yes, everybody out there, use those stamps, redeem. If you don't have stamps, at least make sure that all 31 of your cards have been redeemed from, or not redeemed, but deployed from the Battle of the Bards. Maybe there are teams that are sitting on this and they're waiting.

Craig (24:57.634)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Craig (25:04.802)
Yes.

Floyd. Yeah.

Rob (25:13.781)
Don't forget the month does end at some point in time. So if you're waiting with your cards, you're going to run out of valuable locations. That's what I will call them to get those deployed. Get your cap on, get all the points. Yeah, because let's talk about the leaderboard on Battle of the Bards real quick before we finalize. so neither of us are in first place. So that's the good news for,

Craig (25:14.414)
Mmm.

Craig (25:23.0)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (25:31.564)
Yep. Here we go.

Craig (25:38.752)
No, no. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Rob (25:40.809)
the accidents. The accidents have, in fact, accidentally slipped into first place, but they they butchered the competition is what they did. They have strategized very well. so, yeah, congrats to them. We'll let you tell everyone who's second place currently.

Craig (25:46.114)
I don't think it was an accident, but anyway, they did it on purpose. They did it on purpose. They really did. They really did. Correct. Correct.

Craig (26:01.134)
So currently as we record this on a Wednesday morning, have the accidents in first, 756,000 points followed by Stormbound, which last week was last. 733,000 points, well done to my team, Stormbound, followed in third place by the Chalice, the Crimson Chalice, 731,000 points. And then down in fourth position is the Star Sirens with 672,000 points.

Rob (26:12.191)
Yeah.

Craig (26:29.1)
Star Sirens, 50,000 behind. You can see though, the Stormbound and Crimson, very, very close. We've been back and forth, second and third, second and third, second and third. Almost, Rob, almost every single hour, it changes at the moment. That's how close it is between you and I. But the accidents themselves, very proud to say that they're like right up there. And I will say after last week and having a look at the Stormbound, how we were in fourth place, Rob, I was sort of just like gunning for the accidents a little bit just to beat you.

Rob (26:42.207)
Yeah. Yeah.

Craig (26:58.99)
I don't care really, I'll be honest, I don't care who wins as long as it's not Crimson Chalice, but anyway.

Rob (26:59.5)
yeah.

Rob (27:03.403)
You know, man, I mean, this is how life goes. And we know this. I'm also really excited for the accidents because they are player led 100 % player led, you know what I mean? Like, you and I have have the ability to push a little bit more. We're not using any tools outside what everyone else has. But but yeah, it's really been very fun to watch. And yeah, good luck, everyone. Let's let's keep going.

Craig (27:15.21)
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

Craig (27:22.39)
Nope, we can't. We can't. Yeah.

Craig (27:30.421)
Mm-hmm. A a little hint there for the rest of the month though, Rob, and that is this. If you have a look at Cuppa Z, and this is for everyone, have a look at Cuppa Z, go to Battle of the Bards and you'll see the actual points, you know, and the time, the whole lot. We've got 15 days left as we speak and record. If you have look at the Accidents, you have a look at the highest level card, and that is the Arena Show card. They've done just over thousand deploys, a thousand and eleven deploys.

for 13 and a half thousand caps, right? That's the numbers you've been looking at. Then you've got Stormbound, only 984 deploys. So we're behind on the deploys, but we've got 13,300 caps. So we're almost the same amount of caps, but with less deploys. Would that mean that Stormbound are actually deploying in high area, capital areas? I think so.

Rob (28:10.987)
Hmm.

Rob (28:22.229)
Strategic deployers it seems, yeah

Craig (28:24.11)
strategic deploys exactly I mean you look at the to give you an idea as well we're 984 and Crimson is 981 so we're very very close to deploys then the arena show the storm bound have got 13,300 caps Crimson 12,500 caps so 800 caps less from Crimson Chalice that is where

Rob (28:41.684)
Wow.

Wow, that's like what 8,000 points or something. That's where the wow.

Craig (28:48.93)
That's correct. Yeah. That's where, that's where the points are coming in. So this, this game, and this is a tip out there for the rest of the month, because you know, I feel like some teams out there, Crimson Challenge, have really deployed early, deployed everything early to try and get out in the lead. and you know, and, and you sort of, you can't, you can't keep your breath up, Rob. You can't keep going at that pace because everyone's got the same amount of cards to deploy. So.

Rob (29:06.111)
Maybe.

Rob (29:13.973)
True, we shall see.

Craig (29:15.022)
But other than that, well done to the accidents, as I said before, and star sirens. Come on guys, come play with the team. Come play with the big boys. Exactly. All right, Rob, I'm gonna move on to the Munzee question of the week. And this one came quite a few times, especially after the last weekend with all the bouncing virtual gardens. Everyone loved them, or I'll say this, 95 % of people loved them, which is good to see. That's a good average.

Rob (29:23.755)
Just get your deploys out there, it's very important.

Rob (29:38.955)
That's a great average for anything that Munzee has launched,

Craig (29:45.399)
Exactly, exactly. So the question is, and that is, when will the BVGs leave the map and will there be any more coming out?

Rob (29:54.571)
well, that's actually a good question. And in looking at this ahead of time, I actually thought that there was something to indicate their archive date on cup of tea in particular. I then went looking was like, there's not. I added it to the details of each garden. says when the when there's an archive date. So when you're looking at the gardens, you can click on it, you can see the details. But here's the information.

Craig (30:04.974)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (30:13.731)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (30:19.79)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (30:21.557)
As far as the rainbow garden goes, there is no end in sight. Does that mean that it could go away at some point in time? Yes. Do we know when that is? Absolutely not, because it's a staff owned garden. So no worries about that one. It's going to it bounces on a much longer timer. Then we have the hot air balloons. The hot air balloons were sold through our online store. They were sold in mid-June when we first launched the gardens.

Craig (30:25.934)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (30:32.908)
Yeah. Yeah.

Rob (30:49.387)
and those archive on August 1st. So those are the ones they're going to be making their rounds to the events because their timer is running short. The event gardens, the ones that have just been built, we built the big pink event pin last week, and it ended up most of the pins ended up with 200 caps or around about 200. That's 10,000 points.

Craig (31:00.206)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (31:06.423)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (31:12.396)
Wow. Wow.

Rob (31:16.383)
For anyone who had one of those pins, about 10,000 points from one virtual in one week. That's ridiculous.

Craig (31:25.272)
How can Rob, how can people get into those gardens then?

Rob (31:28.831)
Well, the only way to get into these event gardens is to attend a birthday event, which they're on the calendar. They have a pink outline around them. Birthday event. Yes. So last week we had very so many events that we had so many pens to deploy that you and I talked. We built smaller gardens. We built five of them instead. So there are birthday cake gardens that were deployed earlier this week. They and the

Craig (31:36.376)
Birthday. Yeah, birthday event, yeah.

Rob (31:58.687)
pink event pin will expire on September 1st. So that's what you're looking at for those. Yeah, keep an eye on the map. They're bouncing to events this weekend and in between events, they're going to be all over the world. So yeah, have fun, chase them and cap all all the pins cap them and the POI it's important as well. Will there be more? Absolutely. Yes, there will. This has been

Craig (32:02.424)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (32:07.79)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (32:14.296)
Very cool. Will there be more?

Craig (32:19.17)
Yes.

Craig (32:25.945)
nice to see.

Rob (32:27.647)
fun for everyone and mildly fun for me. So yes, it's going well. We don't do away with things that are going well. We like to lean into them. So yeah, stay tuned. There will be more.

Craig (32:32.168)
Hahaha.

Craig (32:38.7)
Very good, very good. And Rob, you did literally just took the carpet out from underneath my feet because the Munzee Tip of the Week is they are limited in times at events, so make sure you cap the whole garden, include the POI because you get a special badge for capping the entire gardens and the POI. that's the reason for it. They are at limited times at events. So thank you for pulling that rug from underneath me in regards to the Tip of the Week. And... Yeah.

Rob (33:03.157)
Oops, I actually thought in my head, didn't I see that written somewhere and I wasn't looking at the screen. I am sorry.

Craig (33:08.628)
I know you were. know. So I'm going to end it here, Rob. That ends another official Munzee podcast.

Rob (33:14.443)
Thanks for joining us on this monzie adventure.

Craig (33:16.898)
Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review on your favourite podcasting app and join us next week for another informative episode.

Rob (33:22.144)
And remember, Munzee is more than a game. It's a worldwide community of mobile game players.

Craig (33:26.968)
So keep scanning, keep discovering, keep that Munzey spirit live. One, two, three, stormbound for the win. Storm, see I'm stormbound, I'm still storm.

Rob (33:31.091)
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