This document provides resources for solving various types of puzzle caches, including codes and ciphers, word puzzles, math puzzles, logic puzzles, trivia, and general puzzle resources. It lists specific geocaches that teach puzzle solving techniques as well as tools for decoding morse code, binary code, languages, and ciphers. Resources for solving word searches, crosswords, anagrams, unit conversions, area calculations, Sudoku, and logic problems are also included.
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Geocaching Puzzle Resources
1. How Do I Solve All
These &#$@! Puzzle
Caches?
TripCyclone
2. The Cache Page itself
Name/Title
Hidden by (this can be anything the CO chooses, not
necessarily their official handle)
Hidden on (the date can be set by the CO to any date
in the past)
Size, difficulty, and terrain
Coordinates
Cache description (including hidden text and hidden
comments more on this later)
Images (background image, gallery, and in the
description)
Additional waypoints
The hint
Inventory (travel bugs, along with related images and
logs)
Logs
3. A Couple of Geocaching.com Resources
GC25WQJ - A puzzle that walks you through
common ways to hide information
Puzzle Solving 101 a series of caches built
around how to solve puzzles.
Lesson in Ciphers a series of cipher caches built
to teach about ciphers
Puzzle Shortcuts Series a series of caches that
teach about solving puzzles. A Cliff Notes
version
Post by NiraD NiraD regularly posts this info on
the forums when people ask for puzzle help.
4. Codes and Ciphers
Morse Code
Binary Code
Languages BabelFish & Google
Translate
Cipher Tools
5. Word Puzzles
Dictionary.com
Word Search
Crossword Puzzles
Anagrams
Andys Anagram Solver
I Rearrangement Servent (Internet
Anagram Solver)
Wikipedia
6. Math Puzzles
Unit Conversion
Area Calculations
Recreational Mathmatics a
wikipedia article that contains lots
of links and resources, including
math puzzles
7. Logic Puzzles
Sudoku Wikipedia has
some great information,
but here is a Sudoku
resource list
Sudoku Solver solves
several variants
Logic Problems a
common form in puzzle
books (and my GC Killer
Puzzle)
8. Trivia
Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc
Wikipedia
IMDB Internet Movie Database
Places Named a listing of
locations within the US
9. General Puzzle Resources
Puzzle wikipedia page for
puzzles; branches out into many
wikipedia entries about different
puzzles
National Puzzlers League lots of
info and some solvers