Canton, Georgia Bridgemill/Sixes Pokemon Guide Update: Lunch with an Electabuzz in Woodstock

First I went back to Olde Rope Mill Park and there was indeed an Electabuzz there again. Right in the same spot before you leave the straight away and the parking splits. Opposite side of the road as the entrance gym basically. It wasn't as big as the one I failed to get the other day but it was new so that's nice.

Also someone was running two lures on the double pokestop and the amount of good spawns in the parking lot was downright overwhelming. A psyduck, a couple Magikarp, a Slowbro, a Rhyhorn, a Bellsprout a Nidorino, an Abra, a Jigglypuff, a Koffing, a Digglet, and a Meowth. I went here instead of the double Magikarp park and it clearly payed off.

Before that I walked around Woodstock a bit. I ate outside at Canyon Burger. Couldn't quite reach the Bob the turkey gym. Could reach a pokestop. One of the outside tables might have reached two. Another might have reached one stop and the gym. The only reliable place to reach that gym is inside Reel across the street. There are also a number of double pokestop parking spaces along main street if Holly Springs doesn't suit your tastes.

BTW, yesterday I went to Cherokee County Park where there are four pokestops in a small area ( a boat ramp and a pavillion, basically). Two can be reached at once from a trailer only parking spot. Two can be reached at once from the street shoulder. I think you can reach 3 or 4 at once from a picnic table or two but I didn't feel like leaving the air conditioning, definitely at least two. There's a gym as well. The gym is barely reachable from the street but not from the parking spaces.

Sixes & Bridgemill Pokemon Go Guide Update 3: Lunch and a workout (pokestop + gym)

I have no intention of covering all of Kennesaw. It's half an hour away and there's just too much of it. You may as well be in the city. I mean, look at this nonsense. There's double pokestops, triple pokestops one park with like 20 pokestops, etc.

But sometimes you just have to go to Kennesaw, so today while I was there I scoped out a pokestop plus gym in a decent mexican restaurant.  There's one booth where you can reach the pokestop and the gym both reliably. And then there's at least one where you might have to wave your phone around a bit.

The mexican restaurant between Hobby Town and the post office.

Oh, and regarding the Magikarp park on the way to/from Woodstock. Today my take was one Psyduck and one Magikarp. And an Exeggcute on the way in (plus all the balls on the way in and out).

Pokemon Go Guide for Bridgemill, Sixes, Georgia Update 2: A double pokestop where you can eat lunch

A double pokestop where you can eat your lunch

As long as that lunch is in your car. 

Olde Rope Mill Park has two or more parking spots from which you can reach two pokestops at once. Get there early though as the parking spots are often full from people who actually get out and walk the park at lunch. Or bike. Or whatever it is people do. There's another couple pokestops and a gym if you were to do that. But there's a gym you can reach on your way in and out from the shoulder of the road so you've no need to get out at all. 

Further, the pokemon selection is quite good. I saw an Electabuzz in the road by the aforementioned road gym (it escaped; I'm totally going back). I picked up a Slowpoke and a Cubone from one of those parking spots as well. Little River goes right through the park and there's a trail along either side of it (one paved and one not) so I'm sure there's good water pokemon if I actually got out in the oppressive heat and humidity. I'd go there in the middle of the night but it's closed from 11pm to 7am and there's a gate across the road.  It is only 10 minutes from Bridgemill so it would beat out my ultimate double pokestop spot if it weren't closed when I drink my morning coffee.

For lunch options you've got a McDonald's a Chick-fil-A and a Five Guys across the road from the park. Or you can go into the Outlet Shops at Atlanta food court and pick up Charley's Philly Steaks, Johnny Rockets, Little Tokyo, Taquiera Tsunami, Auntie Anne's or Starbucks.

The food court has a pokestop, too.

Oh, regarding that other park where I always get two Magikarp, today it was two Psyducks instead. That's allowed I guess. I also got an adorable little Charmander and a Venomoth in the first parking lot on the way in.

Do Charmanders always come this small or was I just unlucky? Leave a comment below if you know.

Update: A Guide to Playing Pokemon Go in "Sixes"/Bridgemill in Canton, Georgia

As a followup to the post I made on playing Pokemon Go in Sixes/Bridgemill I have some new information in a couple of areas I wanted to expand on.

The nearest double pokestop to Sixes:

*drumroll*

It's in Holly Springs at the Train Depot. Specifically, it's in one particular parking spot in the training depot parking lot (assuming you don't want to sit in the intersection). You can also reach a gym from that same parking spot.

The other pokestop of the pair is at the Covenant of Peace Church across the street. The gym is at the Centennial Time Capsule plaque. You can only reach the two pokestops (with the bonus of the gym) from that one parking spot. Not even from the one next to it. So get there early! Well, actually don't go there at all during the day because Holly Springs is doing construction for a new downtown and that intersection is a mess at the best of times.

What intersection you say? You  could call it the intersection of Holly Street and Main Street, but you'd be wrong. Or you could call it the intersection of Main Street and Hickory Road, but that would be wrong too. If you called it the intersection of Hickory Road and Jackson Street, you'd almost be there. It's actually more like Hickory Road and Palm Street. This area really is a mess, but once you're in that spot you can just spin those two coins every 5 minutes and fight or train that gym forever. Or read your faces book or your tweeters or whatever you're into.

Why is this the best spot to get balls near Sixes? It's the only place you can sit in your car at two pokestops at once that is within 11 minutes of the entrance to Bridgemill. 10 minutes if you live closer to the ass end of Bridgemill by Allesandro's.


Other confirmed double pokestops nearby:

There's a double pokestop at the Krystal burger.

You can reach them both from inside, or in the drive through. I'm not sure if there's a parking spot that can reach them both, but I think so.

On the way to Canton in a strip mall.

There used to be a paranoia haunted house next to the church in this strip mall (Action Church of Canton). No one tell Niantic it's moved. There's at least four parking spots you can reach both pokestops from, if not more. Actually, this is only 8 minutes from the closest Bridgemill entrance, but it feels farther than Holly Springs, so shut up.

In Canton:

 in the front of the Canton Police Station (2 or 3 parking spots by the boy and girl statues)

and at the Arts Center by the cemetery (behind the justice building snug up against the cemetery).

That's not the only reason to go to downtown Canton. Canton has the best drive through pokestops in the area bar none and the traffic is way better than Woodstock. You can drive the loop once or twice and have enough balls to fill your sack. Or you can walk around and have enough balls to take on a gym or three. I think it's a better place to play Pokemon Go than Marietta Square actually, and that place seems quite popular.

There's a few more around as well, but I've not confirmed there's a legal place to park yet, and none as close as Holly Springs.

Again, leave a comment below if you think you know better than me.

A link to the original post in case you missed it.

A Guide to Playing Pokemon Go in "Sixes"/Bridgemill in Canton, Georgia

The problem:

It's hard to play Pokemon Go in the suburbs, especially in a place as deeply sub-sub-sub-urban as Bridgemill. You'd think there'd be an advantage to the topography, there's hardly any Pokemon in the woods or by the lake. There's basically no pokestops except for the churches because there's practically nothing of any historical, architectural or artistic significance and everything is 20, 25 or 30 minutes away. I've heard several times with all those different numbers that that's an Atlanta joke. It's not funny. However, it is true here considering how long it can take just to get out of Bridgemill (10 or more minutes depending on where you live).

pokemon: Pokeballs are scarce in Sixes, real scarce. More scarce than pokemon. After your first few quick levels you won't be getting any balls inside Bridgemill unless you pay for them or use a lucky egg and a few dozen evolves to level up. The exceptions on the extreme edge of the neighborhood: the entrance signs and the playground by the pool. So you can make your own choices but I won't go after bats, rats or spearows after I see the last Pokestop on the way into the neighborhood; what if I end up seeing something I really want? I still go for pidgeys coz the minimal number of candies makes them good experience, but mostly I wait for the odd ones or I end up running out of balls before I leave the neighborhood again. If you do choose to go after all the things be aware that Spearows aren't as bad as deal as the Internet says coz their evolve is 1000XP instead of 500XP.

There are some creeks and ponds within Bridgemill where you'll find more interesting things than the usual birds, bugs and rodents. Along the creeks or ponds you'll find psyducks and magikarp and goldeens and staryu and other things you won't usually see on the neighborhood streets.

noonday creek
little river, which you can walk at olde rope mill park
toonigh creek
blankets creek
downing creek, accessible easily from the nature trail at Barnett Park
all the waterways

Even if you stay on the streets, if you hold out, you'll get some slightly less common pokemon: bulbasaurs, venonats, pikachus, evees, jigglypuffs, staryu, horsea, oddish ,nidoran, krabby, gastly, paras, poliwags, growlithes, clefairys, and probably more (I'm not sure where I got them because they took the cool i-found-it-here map feature away a few days after the game went live).

Gyms: There's actually a fair number of gyms in the area. Maybe as many as there are Pokestops, which is not the usual. Within a couple minutes drive of the entrance to Bridgemill, there's at least 4 Gyms you can capture and/or train at.

The red ones are gyms

Pokestops:

The blue ones are Pokestops.

Of course, I mentioned the Bridgemill entrance signs and the pool. And specifically there's one at the New Hope Baptist Church and two at the Sixes United Methodist Church, and one at the Xtreme Life churchy thing, then up at  the River Church and Blankets Creek but these are the exceptions that prove the rule: there are no Pokeballs in this place. There is really no place in Sixes to replenish your balls; one pokestop every 5 minutes isn't enough to keep you in balls.

Places that were almost awesome: There are two places in the area that were almost perfect places to hang out and replenish your balls: Sixes United Methodist Church, and the Lebanon Cemetery across from the post office. At both places you can just barely not reach 2 Pokestops from one place, by maybe a car length.

The elusive double Pokestop:

I haven't found it,  not around here. Maybe there isn't one nearby, but wouldn't it be awesome if there were a place you could sit in your car and drink your Starbucks and spin two pokestop coins every 5 minutes instead of just one? Please let me know in the comments below if you find one before I do (short of driving to downtown Canton).

Update 8/15/16: I found it! Check the link below.

Places with a Pokestop to eat breakfast:

J Christopher's in Woodstock (only the side of the restaurant that can reach the Century House)

Places with a Pokestop to eat lunch:

Century House in Woodstock (not open until 11)

Places with a Pokestop to eat dinner:

There's that pizza place with the brick oven, also in Woodstock.

The Krystal Burger for reals. Double Pokestop

Places to hang out in your car when it's too hot (or you're just chilling):

The Bridgemill pool parking lot
Etowah river park, there are parking spots that can reach the picnic pavillion pokestop
Virtually any church parking lot
"The Outlet Shops at Atlanta" one exit up has only has one Pokestop, however you can reach it from at least one table inside the air conditioned food court

Once in Sixes, you'll probably lose more balls catching rats and bats and pigeons than they are worth. Ultimately you want to walk in a 5 minute loop of Pokestops so you can spin coins nonstop and the first is reset by the time you are done with the last. Downtown Canton is best for that but Woodstock is nearly as good.

Random Local Tips:

You can get 2 Magikarp every time you go past the gate at the end of the road of J Biello park. There's also 3 pokestops you can hit on the way in and out as well, so you  can come out ahead on balls.

If you sit at the Etowah river park for 2 hours in the evening you are almost certain to get an Eggsecute though during the day you may just see weedles and junk.

Let me know in the comments if you think you have a local tip to share that I didn't cover. I'll edit the post with any new information I get.

Others in this series:
A link to the followup post on a great park to cruise through for Magikarp.
A link to the second update on a great park to eat lunch at.
The third update on a place to lunch and gym a bit out of the way in Kennesaw.

Candy Crush Jelly Level 138 [Hard Level]

Goal: Spread the Jelly everywhere!
Moves: 30

This level starts on the first of two screens with a single jellied square right in the middle, your first move should spread that jelly, because your subsequent moves are going to need to start from atop of the jelly.

Tips for screen one:
1. Focus on uncaging the color bomb and the color changer on the right and left of the screen. You'll need to make striped candies and use them in the right places or simply use fish. You can also use stripes with color bombs. Whatever you do, you will need to start from a jellied square so that you can jelly the side squares without detonating the special candies. They will drop on the next screen and probably be more useful there. If you don't uncage them from atop a jellied square, you will need to detonate them from a jellied square to move to the next screen.

2. Fish drop from the upper right corner square and the upper left corner square, usually about 4 of them. You can use a double fish to uncage the color bomb and color changer (only do this if your fish are over jelly), but it is best to save one fish pair to deal with your last 3 unjellied squares, otherwise you will waste many moves that you'll need on the next screen.

3. Make a few special candies but don't use them, you will need them after your jelly has been spread on this screen.

If you seem to have a lot of moves left, and the screen is nearly covered in jelly, don't get too excited, there is a second screen.

Tips for screen 2:

1. Hopefully, you left some special candies, if you left the color bomb and the color changer  in their isolated side squares on screen one, they will drop down on this screen after 2 candies underneath them are matched.

2. Don't worry about breaking the lower blocks, or even all of the four blocks in the middle of the screen, they are already jellied underneath the blocks. The only reason to eliminate them after the first one is to give yourself room to make special candies. If you look closely at the image above you can see the jelly poking out from under the frosting blocks.

For an example, check out a video here (to save you from the embarrassment and headaches of the telltale sound effects there is no sound):

Note that to save your ego I have also left the video at normal speed with all my slow thinking and screw ups. Feel free to speed up the video in youtube by clicking on the gear, then speed, then 2.

Links to other tip sites:
AppTipper Candy Crush Jelly Saga Level 138 Tips (pretty reliable site)
Candy Crush Mom Tips and Walkthrough: Candy Crush Jelly Level 138
skillgaming Candy Crush Jelly Saga Level 138 video (no sound)
Pete Peppers Candy Crush Jelly Saga Level 138 video (autoplays annoying game sounds)
Gamers Unite Candy Crush Jelly Saga Level 138 Walkthrough video (annoying sounds, does not autoplay)
Candy Crush Cheats' Candy Crush Jelly Level 138 Cheats and Tips
All the Youtubes (mostly autoplay annoying/embarrassing game sounds)

Candy Crush Soda Level 639

This level is has two exploding donuts or whatever they are and a bunch of icing or glazing or whatever they are. Obviously, you're going to want to focus on the donuts. Most times you attempt this level you'll be left disappointed on the left hand side of your screen, so focus there with special candies whenever possible. There's a lot of opportunity for specials on this level. So do up some color bombs and color changers combined with other candies and you'll get it, just maybe not the first time, or the second.