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SirPoonga · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:09 am Post subject: Hints

How many of you decode the hints using the website?

I haven't. Since I go with a friend (always for safety reasons) we usually look for about 15-20 minutes. Then if we still can't find it one of my friends has been designated the ROT13 master. He's getting good at decoding ROT13. I bet soon he'd be able to read hints with out decoding them Wink

He knows when he sees the word 'the'. We haven't used too many of them yet.
Either way, after we found a cache we will decode the hint, some of them are creative and fun to read.
But the last ones we decoded were blatent give-aways. IT'S A HINT! Not a give-away. Sigh. Just getting that off my chest.

Personally, I like the creative hints. They dont; completely give-away the cache, but they narrow the search. Ones that says something like "Please say no to this" and the cache is hidden in a crack.

So, what do you think about hints?

Kitch · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 7:46 am Post subject:

i know i can read a lot of them quite fast.....

tree, water, bark, and ground are easy to read after seeing them sooo many times....

thats why I try to be a little more creative with a clue...

RJ · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:39 pm Post subject:

It depends on what kind of geocaching day I have planned. Sometimes I use the website to decode all of them. Others I just decode the really long hints, like a paragraph of hints.

If I'm going out to just find 2 or 3, then I might not even bring the printout with.

Sometimes when travelling way out of the cities or far across town, I bring the hints to help ensure I don't get skunked (doesn't matter sometimes though).

Everyone's different and has different motives. Those are mine.

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

I typically carry my ipaq with me while caching (especially on long caching days). It has an auto decoder which is nice. Just click on "Show Hints" and there it is Smile

I typically don't need the hints unless it is some fantastic hide. I try to avoid doing "fantastic hides" if I am just going for the numbers... You can't exactly hit 30 caches in a day if you spend 20 minutes looking for each cache.

Silent Bob

Kitch · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject:

I use spinner and plucker....alrdy decoded....

rickrich · Geocacher Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 673

If we have a cache sheet printed, such as for a puzzle cache (because you need something to take notes on for those anyway), then the kids will decode them on the traill if needed. The kids like doing the decoding.

If we don't have the cache sheet printed, then we decode them off the web pages on the laptop in the car before we set off, to prevent getting skunked.

Yes, its true that my primary trail GPS is also a PDA. Nevertheless, I cannot be bothered to download waypoints into it, let alone cache pages. Our challenge is to remember the decoded hint until we need it Smile

Sometimes, my memory fails (such as Ole' Fishin Hole), and the price is a return trip.

Hey, its my bed, and I like sleeping in it. Smile

-Rick

Moe the Sleaze · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:34 pm Post subject:

rickrich · Geocacher Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 673

towlebooth · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 6:22 pm Post subject:

I always decode the hints for King Boreas caches.
Laughing

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261