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  • 08/09/2009 at 9:38 pm #1728657
    kc9gbo

      Ok, so I’m stealing the idea for this topic from a regional geocaching section on Geocaching (original topic link: http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=204575&hl=)

      So, what is the worst/most useless hint you have come across??

      For us we really don’t like tucked in, yeah, we know it being a micro will most likely be tucked in, but come on in a forest with tons of trees laying down and hollow?? Plus the gps is bouncing around so we aren’t even sure that we are close to the g.z.!!

      That’s one of our pet peeve hints.

      08/09/2009 at 10:11 pm #1912247
      Team Black-Cat

        “Send in reinforcements.”
        This hint makes no sense until you find it.
        (Sorry GMO) 🙂

        08/09/2009 at 10:51 pm #1912248
        gotta run

          First Prize: “None needed.”

          Runners Up:

          “Not yet”

          “Will give hint after the FTF” (still there years later)

          “In the rocks” (well DUH!!!)

          “Check out my cache GCXXXXX. It’s awesome!”

          “Be sure to park at 123 Main Street” (with no parking coordinates given)

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          08/09/2009 at 11:00 pm #1912249
          Mathman

            I’ve got you all topped…..

            Hint: 20 feet south of the only White Pine, in a hole of the maple tree about 4 feet off of the ground marked with a red spot above the hole.

            08/10/2009 at 12:26 am #1912250
            Astro_D

              @gotta run wrote:

              First Prize: “None needed.”

              Runners Up:

              “Not yet”

              “Will give hint after the FTF” (still there years later)

              “In the rocks” (well DUH!!!)

              “Check out my cache GCXXXXX. It’s awesome!”

              “Be sure to park at 123 Main Street” (with no parking coordinates given)

              That is the most infuriating hint! Yeah, like I have Internet access while out on the trail. And even if I did, it probably would be of no help.

              08/10/2009 at 12:34 am #1912251
              K0rpl

                Typical Hide.

                08/10/2009 at 12:52 am #1912252
                kansas64

                  Kept running into Pmuts last year in Indiana, it only took us 3-4 of these to realize Pumts is Stump backwards. Ok I may have been slow that day also

                  08/10/2009 at 3:23 am #1912253
                  Team Deejay

                    For me, the ultimate bad hint was on a rockpile hide in Racine, with the wonderful hint “Across the street from Lee’s Deli.”

                    08/10/2009 at 1:16 pm #1912254
                    Trekkin and Birdin
                    Participant

                      ‘Tucked in’ is our least favorite. Dick actually talked to the cache owner about it, when he asked why I didn’t go along to hunt for his hides, and he stopped using that….except one time.

                      He called Dick and said, “I’ve got one for Gwyn. The clue is “not tucked in but cleverly concealed!”

                      At least he has a sense of humor about it! 😉

                      08/10/2009 at 2:37 pm #1912255
                      Team Honeybunnies

                        Zuma and I ran into a classic in southwest Iowa… “First look with your GPS, then with your eyes.” 🙄

                        08/10/2009 at 2:42 pm #1912256
                        gotta run

                          We’ve also come across “hidden” and “look hard”

                          On the Left Side of the Road...
                          08/10/2009 at 3:04 pm #1912257
                          Timberline Echoes

                            “This one is too easy for a hint”

                            08/10/2009 at 3:15 pm #1912258
                            gotta run

                              Also, not really a “useless” hint but more frustrating–not putting enough information on the cache page to solve a puzzle in the first place and then adding/changing hints over time to add necessary info. 🙄

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                              08/10/2009 at 5:12 pm #1912259
                              Team Deejay

                                @gotta run wrote:

                                Also, not really a “useless” hint but more frustrating–not putting enough information on the cache page to solve a puzzle in the first place and then adding/changing hints over time to add necessary info. 🙄

                                This is theoretically not within the guidelines, although sometimes the reviewers miss things like this. Sometimes a puzzle will look straightforward, only to be proven unsolvable (or with multiple correct solutions). Generally we just glance at sudokus, math problems, trivia quizzes, etc. The ones that get our attention are encryptions, logic puzzles, and those caches where the puzzle doesn’t seem to exist at all.

                                Returning the thread back to its originally scheduled topic…

                                08/10/2009 at 5:56 pm #1912260
                                Todd300

                                  Hint : Balsam

                                  Gee, which balsam tree? And like I can identify a balsam. Riiiiiiiiight.

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