What are "gotchas"?

[+BarbVA]

I was just browsing through my new Summer Activity Girl Scout catalogue, and one of the things they are doing this summer is an introduction to Geocaching. It says in part:

 

"Discover the meaning of GPS, "travel bugs", "gotchas" and "caches"."

 

I thought I had heard most terminology by now, but can't say I've heard of a "gotcha", anybody want to enlighten me?

[crawil]

For me, a "gotcha" is a 1/1 cache that I dont' find!

[+Renegade Knight]

I was just browsing through my new Summer Activity Girl Scout catalogue, and one of the things they are doing this summer is an introduction to Geocaching. It says in part:

 

"Discover the meaning of GPS, "travel bugs", "gotchas" and "caches"."

 

I thought I had heard most terminology by now, but can't say I've heard of a "gotcha", anybody want to enlighten me?

 

Sounds like computer books about "Tips, Tricks, and Traps" The traps would be the gotcha's but it's going to be whatever the person speaking says they are. Nothing specific in the geocaching lexicon.

[+9Key]

I was just browsing through my new Summer Activity Girl Scout catalogue, and one of the things they are doing this summer is an introduction to Geocaching. It says in part:

 

"Discover the meaning of GPS, "travel bugs", "gotchas" and "caches"."

 

I thought I had heard most terminology by now, but can't say I've heard of a "gotcha", anybody want to enlighten me?

 

Sounds like computer books about "Tips, Tricks, and Traps" The traps would be the gotcha's but it's going to be whatever the person speaking says they are. Nothing specific in the geocaching lexicon.

They probably mean "things to avoid".

[+GIDEON-X]

Hmmm, "Decoys" ? .............