+MindlessEngine Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Hi! I am fairly new to puzzle caches and during quarantine I am trying get as many puzzle caches solved in Arizona (where I live) as possible. There are several which have codes of numbers or letter or both. Some of them were easy to decipher using geocachingtoolbox and similar websites, yet several have me stumped and I have no clue what the code is called. I found a few website in which you enter a code and it tells you what the code is called but they don’t work very well and most the time are wrong. Does anyone know a good website to show what the code is called? Thank you! anything helps. Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 (edited) There may be more by now, but one "regular" set that niraD shows is in this post. I refer to it myself time-to-time. Have you considered asking the CO for help ? Most will, usually after FTF. Edited May 1, 2020 by cerberus1 1 Quote Link to comment
+MindlessEngine Posted May 1, 2020 Author Share Posted May 1, 2020 Thank you! I well check it out! I have asked CO's several times. I have a friend who has pretty much found every puzzle in AZ (or seems like) and they have helped a lot, but I wanted to get good at it myself. 1 Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 3 hours ago, MindlessEngine said: Hi! I am fairly new to puzzle caches and during quarantine I am trying get as many puzzle caches solved in Arizona (where I live) as possible. There are several which have codes of numbers or letter or both. Some of them were easy to decipher using geocachingtoolbox and similar websites, yet several have me stumped and I have no clue what the code is called. I found a few website in which you enter a code and it tells you what the code is called but they don’t work very well and most the time are wrong. Does anyone know a good website to show what the code is called? Thank you! anything helps. I hope I can find some of your puzzle caches next time I'm in that area. Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Discovering what encryption was used is a complete science unto itself. I am not exaggerating when I say that people have spent years working on that particular problem. I have a strong negative opinion about puzzle caches that use a cipher where you are supposed to figure out what it is, in general. I have seen some very good exceptions, but mostly it's just lazy puzzle creation to make the solver guess what you were thinking. 4 1 Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 14 hours ago, fizzymagic said: Discovering what encryption was used is a complete science unto itself. I am not exaggerating when I say that people have spent years working on that particular problem. I have a strong negative opinion about puzzle caches that use a cipher where you are supposed to figure out what it is, in general. I have seen some very good exceptions, but mostly it's just lazy puzzle creation to make the solver guess what you were thinking. I agree, but the exceptions are when there are clues/hints hidden somewhere on the cache page which might reveal the type of cipher is used. For many puzzle caches, determining the nature of the puzzle is the puzzle. 3 Quote Link to comment
+TmdAndGG Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 17 hours ago, fizzymagic said: I am not exaggerating when I say that people have spent years working on that particular problem. I read somewhere that says 98.75% of statistics are made up on the spot. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+ras_oscar Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 On 5/2/2020 at 11:47 AM, TmdAndGG said: I read somewhere that says 98.75% of statistics are made up on the spot. its more like 97.363121%... approximately 1 Quote Link to comment
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