Puzzle/Mystery Cache Helpful links

Puzzle/Mystery Cache Helpful links  

  By: lopezfamily2016-sc on Jan. 15, 2018, 12:13 a.m.

START HERE: INTRO TO PUZZLE SOLVING If you are new to puzzle solving techniques, don’t know how to “view source code”, inspect the properties of an image, look for a background image, etc, etc. START HERE. The next few links contain assorted tutorials that should help you get started. https://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=37f3d8f3-62ba-40ac-b0ef-901807ba9c98 Takes you to ePeterso2's bookmark list of his Puzzle Solving 101 series -a whole slew of actual puzzle caches presented in lesson format. http://parmstro.weebly.com/ Complete site dedicated to solving puzzle caches. Sections on solving puzzles, blank caches, URLs, a sample workflow, hints for all of parmstro's caches and some sample worked solutions to parmstro's caches. Also contains links to useful sites. Associated facebook page is
http://www.howtopuzzlecache.com/ This is the website associated with the book written by Cully Long (a group member). The book is not free, but details tens of puzzle solving methods, workflows, with examples and exercises. The website contains sample puzzles with solutions which could be used as learning tools as well.

CIPHERS & CODES http://www.geocachingtoolbox.com/ All geocaching tools in one box - comprehensive & inclcudes more than cipher & codes, e.g. incomplete coordinates tool. www.cryptool-online.org/ Comprehensive list of cipher & code decoders plus text analysis. http://www.dcode.fr/ Another comprehensive decoder site - in French. Enter the name of the cipher/code you need help with in the search field int he left-hand column. http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/ Another go-to site for ciphers. http://quipqiup.com/ Cryptogram solver http://omniglot.com/ Lists huge number of writing systems and languages, including fictional scripts & languages (e.g. Matoran, Klingon, Tenwar). http://ref.wikibruce.com/ Extensive list of numerous common and obscure ciphers, encryptions, puzzling tools, languages, and applications. https://www.guballa.de/substitution-solver Cryptogram solver: choose German, English, French or Spanish. https://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/codes/index.php Various cipher & code decoders https://sites.google.com/site/cryptocrackprogram/download CryptoCrack - windows-based general solver. N.B. needs download. http://luthorien.altervista.org/Tools/ More decoder links, plus other tools. (Can change background colour with drop-down menu, top left.) https://cryptii.com/text/select Shows text in different systems from ciphers to codes - (e.g. ROT13, Pig Pen, Hex). http://theblob.org/rot.cgi All ROT in one go. https://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html Morse Code translator. https://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html Caesar, Vigenere, TinEye reverse image lookup. http://web.archive.org/web/20110103215258/http://purplehell.com/riddletools/index.htm PurpleHell - comprehensive site with ciphers plus much more. Worth a browse through to see what’s available. http://www.simonsingh.net/TheBlackChamber/chamberguide.html Takes you through lots of different ciphers. http://acaencodedecode.appspot.com/ Keyed cipher decoder. http://bionsgadgets.appspot.com/ Decoder, plus cipher analysis to help identify cipher type. http://www.namesuppressed.com/kenny... Kenny Code (based on Kenny from South Park). http://www.namesuppressed.com/kenny/ Uncovers/hides text in a spam-type email/message. http://www.alltextencryption.com/ General cipher encrypt/decrypt using key http://altamatic.com/crypt A quick way of applying substitution, transposition, numeric, morse and digital decoding. https://dainfo.deerfield.edu/faculty/mdancer/outdoor/puzzlecachehelpers.htm Links to various helpful sites http://easyciphers.com/ Explains various ciphers https://geoleaks.com/MIJNCODEBOEKDEEL3.pdf PDF list of various ciphers & codes. http://home.earthlink.net/~fpcorr/AcaTools.html American Cryptogram Association site with many useful tools. http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/vigenere.html Vignere decoder - N.B. requires download. http://people.physik.hu-berlin.de/~palloks/js/enigma/indexen.html#s6 Enigma Decoder. http://tholman.com/other/transposition/ Transposition cipher solver. http://www.ackgame.com/crypto.htm Analysis tools to identify ciphers, including index of coincidence at various periods, letter count, Normor score, etc https://www.schnatterente.net/nak-nak-nak/deutsch-ente-uebersetzer/4 Duck Code. A German site, but seems to work with many languages. Plaintext goes in left box, cipher goes in right box. It also works from Duck code to Plaintext. https://geocaching.dennistreysa.de/multisolver/ Multi-decoder for many types of ciphers. Input cipher and will decode many ways all at once. https://gc.de/gc/ More geocaching tools. In German, but may have some ciphers not seen elsewhere https://www.quinapalus.com/cgi-bin/playfair Playfair breaker https://ermarian.net/services/encryption/solitaire A Solitaire (otherwise known as ‘Pontifex’) cipher - encryption and decryption

STEGANOGRAPHY http://exif.regex.info/exif.cgi Jeffrey Friedl’s image data viewer. http://exifdata.com/ Another excellent image data viewer https://tineye.com/ Reverse image search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/capture-reverse-image-search/?src=search Crop and reverse image search for Firefox. It uses tineye.com, but you can crop and reverse image search on Google from the tineye picture.
http://magiceye.ecksdee.co.uk/ “Magic Eye” stereogram solver http://www.hidden-3d.com/index.php?id=reveal Helps “see” Magic Eye” stereograms. https://www.geocachingtoolbox.com/index.php?page=steganography Steganography page of the go-to toolbox. https://ezgif.com/split Splits Gif files into separate frames. https://webqr.com/ Scan QR Codes online without a phone
https://www.newocr.com/ Online Optical Character Recognition - find text in images. http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php (N.B. needs download.) Colour picker. http://www.onlinebarcodereader.com/ What it says in the title, handy for various barcode types. https://online-barcode-reader.inliteresearch.com/ Another barcode reader - allows you to choose barcode type. http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx And another barcode reader http://www.rags-int-inc.com/PhotoTechStuff/AcrCalibration/RGB2HSB.html Convert RGB to HSV (HSB) colours. https://www.mobilefish.com/services/steganography/steganography.php Find hidden messages in cover files ie. pictures (only works on .png files). The site also contains many other cryptography tools https://futureboy.us/stegano/decinput.html Useful for keyed steganography (also returns hidden messages in files without the key/password)... works on files other than .png. Can be used on pictures as well as sound/audio files. https://huddle.github.io/Resemble.js/ Compares two images to show any differences between them. Play around with the settings as it can make a difference to the outcome (especially the ‘ignore nothing’ setting).

MATHEMATICS & ICT http://intermath.coe.uga.edu/ Maths dictionary, definitions and ‘constructionary’ (whatever that is) http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/scol/calnumba.htm Show numbers in various bases from Base 2 to Base 20 http://www.convertworld.com/en/ Converts just about anything - area, mass, speed, etc on the top page but note links to others below. https://hashkiller.co.uk/md5-decrypter.aspx Allows you to input an MD5 hash and search for its decrypted state in their database, basically, it's a MD5 cracker / decryption tool. http://reednightingale.com/projects/pointlessScripts/binaryTrans.php Convert between text/binary/hex/base64/ASCII. https://conv.darkbyte.ru/ Binary/Hex/decimal/Base 64 decoder https://www.opinionatedgeek.com/codecs/base64decoder BASE 64 decoder http://www.w3schools.com/ Web page-building tutorials, and lists of coding for characters and colors used in HTML http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel/applet/metic/metic.html For Alphametics http://math2.org/math/general/numnotation.htm "Negative base" calculator http://www.mathsisfun.com/binary-decimal-hexadecimal-converter.html Binary to Decimal to Hexadecimal convertor https://md5.gromweb.com/ MD5 conversion and MD5 Reverse lookup. http://www.zompist.com/numbers.shtml Numbers in over 5000 languages. [http://www.angio.net/pi/bigpi.cgi]](http://) PI search. Find string of digits or digits starting at specific positions in the infinite string of digits of PI https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/view-source-codes-in-ipad-iphone/ N.B. requires download. View Source Code in an iPhone or iPad. http://xslab.com/2013/08/how-to-view-web-page-source-code-in-android/ Explains how to View Source in an Android phone or tablet. https://www.digwebinterface.com/ Deep DIGing of DNS records https://primes.utm.edu/nthprime/index.php Prime search engine

MAPPING https://www.freemaptools.com/ Lots of tools fo maps, measure distances, draw circles, projections, etc, but also a postcode to lat/long converter http://www.fizzymagic.net/Geocaching/FizzyCalc/ Excellent tool to convert between co-ordinate systems, plus co-ordinate & distance projections. N.B. needs download. http://www.synnatschke.de/geo-tools/coordinate-converter.php Online co-ordinate converter. http://www.geocachingtoolbox.com/ All geocaching tools in one box - e.g. incomplete coordinates tool. http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/calculators Great for drawing lines at bearings or perimeter distance around or between co-ordinates. http://geo.javawa.nl/coordcalc/index_en.html Calculating with coordinates (intersections, projections, circles, centers, etc - just choose from the drop-down menu.)

PUZZLES http://anagram-solver.net/ Anagram solver http://wordsmith.org/anagram/ Another anagram solver http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/alphamet/alphasolve.shtml Alphametic puzzle solver http://boulter.com/anagram/ Anagram solver. https://books.google.com/ngrams/ Useful when searching to extend a crib. Just enter word1 word 2 then a * to find out the 10 most likely words to follow those first two words. The * can go any where in the sequence of up to 5 words total. (e.g. enter "one * in ten"). http://www.sudoku-solutions.com/ Sudoku Solver http://sudokuspoiler.azurewebsites.net/ Irregular sudoku solver http://www.sudokuwiki.org/sudoku.htm Another Sudoku solver. http://www.mlsite.net/neknek/ Killer Sudoku solver
http://niallsudoku.com/pages/solver.html KenKen puzzle solver. http://boulter.com/cribbage/ Cribbage scorer http://delphiforfun.org/Programs/logic
problemsolver.htm Solves logic problems commonly found in puzzle magazines and books. http://www.jsingler.de/apps/index.php?language=en Another logic problem solver, and some others https://www.kakuro-online.com/slitherlink/ Slitherlink solver - connect horizontally and vertically adjacent dots so that the lines form a simple loop http://www.iread.it/cryptarithms.php Alphametic puzzle solver. http://www.anagrammy.com/resources/anagramartist.html N.B. requires download. Has a link to download a great anagramming tool, Anagram Artist (Windows only). http://www.litscape.com/ Lots of word-finder tools and literature help. http://www3.oneacross.com/ Crossword and acrostics help. http://a.teall.info/nonogram/ Nonogram (“Japanese crossword”) solver

ASSORTED https://www.babelfish.com/ Online translation between various languages https://calendarhome.com/calculate/convert-a-date/ https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tc.cgi#top Convert a date to various alternative calandar formats (Julian, Hebrew, Mayan, etc.) http://www.iata.org/about/members/Pages/airline-list.aspx?All=true IATA Airline codes http://luthorien.altervista.org/Tools/ Lots of links, including wedding anniversary traditional gifts, guitar chords, date & time difference, chess notation… https://goodlogo.com/ Various logos http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html Physics with calculators: Mechanics, Electricity, Magnetism, Light, Vision, Heat, Thermodynamics, Sound, Hearing, Relativity, etc. http://web.archive.org/web/20110103215258/http://purplehell.com/riddletools/index.htm Comprehensive site with ciphers, alphabet & languages, literature data, conversion tools, image manipulators, maths, etc, etc, - worth a browse through. http://usscouts.org/advancementTOC.asp#rank Lots of info about US scouting ranks and merit badges.

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Re: Puzzle/Mystery Cache Helpful links  

  By: kunarion on Sept. 16, 2018, 11:46 p.m.

This looks like a great resource!  Here I've edited it a little, reformatted it, and deleted or corrected some bad links.  I'm sure I'll be directing people here who are getting serious about puzzle solving. I really like the codebook PDF.  That will come in handy!

 

START HERE: INTRO TO PUZZLE SOLVING

If you are new to puzzle solving techniques, don’t know how to “view source code”, inspect the properties of an image, look for a background image, etc, etc. START HERE. The next few links contain assorted tutorials that should help you get started.

https://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=37f3d8f3-62ba-40ac-b0ef-901807ba9c98
Takes you to ePeterso2's bookmark list of his Puzzle Solving 101 series, a whole slew of actual puzzle caches presented in lesson format.

http://parmstro.weebly.com
Complete site dedicated to solving puzzle caches. Sections on solving puzzles, blank caches, URLs, a sample workflow, hints for all of parmstro's caches and some sample worked solutions to parmstro's caches. Also contains links to useful sites.

Associated web site is http://www.howtopuzzlecache.com
This is the website associated with the book written by Cully Long (a group member). The book is not free, but details tens of puzzle solving methods, workflows, with examples and exercises. The website contains sample puzzles with solutions which could be used as learning tools as well.

 

CIPHERS & CODES

http://www.geocachingtoolbox.com
All geocaching tools in one box - comprehensive & includes more than cipher & codes, such as an incomplete coordinates tool.

www.cryptool-online.org
Comprehensive list of cipher & code decoders plus text analysis.

http://www.dcode.fr
Another comprehensive decoder site - in French. Enter the name of the cipher/code you need help with in the search field int he left-hand column.

http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher
Another go-to site for ciphers.

http://quipqiup.com
Cryptogram solver

http://omniglot.com
Lists huge number of writing systems and languages, including fictional scripts & languages (e.g. Matoran, Klingon, Tenwar).

http://ref.wikibruce.com
Extensive list of numerous common and obscure ciphers, encryptions, puzzling tools, languages, and applications.

https://www.guballa.de
Substitution-solver Cryptogram solver: choose German, English, French or Spanish.

https://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/codes/index.php
Various cipher & code decoders.

https://sites.google.com/site/cryptocrackprogram/download
CryptoCrack - windows-based general solver. N.B. needs download.

http://luthorien.altervista.org/Tools
More decoder links, plus other tools. (Can change background colour with drop-down menu, top left.)

https://cryptii.com/text/select
Shows text in different systems from ciphers to codes - (e.g. ROT13, Pig Pen, Hex).

http://theblob.org/rot.cgi
All ROT in one go.

https://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html
Morse Code translator.

https://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html
Caesar, Vigenere, TinEye reverse image lookup.

http://www.simonsingh.net/TheBlackChamber/chamberguide.html
Takes you through lots of different ciphers.

http://acaencodedecode.appspot.com
Keyed cipher decoder.

http://bionsgadgets.appspot.com
Decoder, plus cipher analysis to help identify cipher type.

http://www.namesuppressed.com/kenny
Kenny Code (based on Kenny from South Park).

http://www.alltextencryption.com
General cipher encrypt/decrypt using key

http://altamatic.com/crypt
A quick way of applying substitution, transposition, numeric, morse and digital decoding.

https://dainfo.deerfield.edu/faculty/mdancer/outdoor/puzzlecachehelpers.htm
Links to various helpful sites.

http://easyciphers.com
Explains various ciphers.

https://geoleaks.com/MIJN_CODEBOEK_DEEL_3.pdf
PDF list of various ciphers & codes.

http://home.earthlink.net/~fpcorr/AcaTools.html
American Cryptogram Association site with many useful tools.

http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/vigenere.html
Vignere decoder - N.B. requires download.

http://people.physik.hu-berlin.de/~palloks/js/enigma/indexen.html#s6
Enigma Decoder.

http://tholman.com/other/transposition/
Transposition cipher solver.

http://www.ackgame.com/crypto.htm
Analysis tools to identify ciphers, including index of coincidence at various periods, letter count, Normor score, etc.

https://www.schnatterente.net/nak-nak-nak/deutsch-ente-uebersetzer/4
Duck Code. A German site, but seems to work with many languages. Plaintext goes in left box, cipher goes in right box. It also works from Duck code to Plaintext.

https://geocaching.dennistreysa.de/multisolver
Multi-decoder for many types of ciphers. Input cipher and will decode many ways all at once.

https://gc.de/gc
More geocaching tools. In German, but may have some ciphers not seen elsewhere.

https://www.quinapalus.com/cgi-bin/playfair
Playfair breaker.

https://ermarian.net/services/encryption/solitaire
A Solitaire (otherwise known as ‘Pontifex’) cipher - encryption and decryption.

 

STEGANOGRAPHY

http://exif.regex.info/exif.cgi
Jeffrey Friedl’s image data viewer.

http://exifdata.com
Another excellent image data viewer.

https://tineye.com
Reverse image search.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/capture-reverse-image-search/?src=search
Crop and reverse image search for Firefox. It uses tineye.com, but you can crop and reverse image search on Google from the tineye picture.

http://magiceye.ecksdee.co.uk
“Magic Eye” stereogram solver.

http://www.hidden-3d.com/index.php?id=reveal
Helps “see” Magic Eye” stereograms.

https://www.geocachingtoolbox.com/index.php?page=steganography
Steganography page of the go-to toolbox.

https://ezgif.com/split
Splits Gif files into separate frames. https://webqr.com/ Scan QR Codes online without a phone.

https://www.newocr.com
Online Optical Character Recognition - find text in images.

http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php
(N.B. needs download.) Colour picker.

http://www.onlinebarcodereader.com
What it says in the title, handy for various barcode types.

https://online-barcode-reader.inliteresearch.com
Another barcode reader - allows you to choose barcode type.

http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx
And another barcode reader

http://www.rags-int-inc.com/PhotoTechStuff/AcrCalibration/RGB2HSB.html
Convert RGB to HSV (HSB) colours.

https://www.mobilefish.com/services/steganography/steganography.php
Find hidden messages in cover files ie. pictures (only works on .png files). The site also contains many other cryptography tools.

https://futureboy.us/stegano/decinput.html
Useful for keyed steganography (also returns hidden messages in files without the key/password)... works on files other than .png. Can be used on pictures as well as sound/audio files.

https://huddle.github.io/Resemble.js
Compares two images to show any differences between them. Play around with the settings as it can make a difference to the outcome (especially the ‘ignore nothing’ setting).

 

MATHEMATICS & ICT

http://intermath.coe.uga.edu
Maths dictionary, definitions and ‘constructionary’ (whatever that is)

http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/scol/calnumba.htm
Show numbers in various bases from Base 2 to Base 20

http://www.convertworld.com/en
Converts just about anything - area, mass, speed, etc on the top page but note links to others below.

https://hashkiller.co.uk/md5-decrypter.aspx
Allows you to input an MD5 hash and search for its decrypted state in their database, basically, it's a MD5 cracker / decryption tool.

http://reednightingale.com/projects/pointlessScripts/binaryTrans.php
Convert between text/binary/hex/base64/ASCII.

https://conv.darkbyte.ru
Binary/Hex/decimal/Base 64 decoder.

https://www.opinionatedgeek.com/codecs/base64decoder
BASE 64 decoder.

http://www.w3schools.com
Web page-building tutorials, and lists of coding for characters and colors used in HTML

http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel/applet/metic/metic.html
For Alphametics

http://math2.org/math/general/numnotation.htm
"Negative base" calculator.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/binary-decimal-hexadecimal-converter.html
Binary to Decimal to Hexadecimal convertor

https://md5.gromweb.com
MD5 conversion and MD5 Reverse lookup.

http://www.zompist.com/numbers.shtml
Numbers in over 5000 languages.

http://www.angio.net/pi/bigpi.cgi
PI search. Find string of digits or digits starting at specific positions in the infinite string of digits of PI.

https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/view-source-codes-in-ipad-iphone
N.B. requires download. View Source Code in an iPhone or iPad.

http://xslab.com/2013/08/how-to-view-web-page-source-code-in-android/
Explains how to View Source in an Android phone or tablet.

https://www.digwebinterface.com
Deep DIGing of DNS records.

https://primes.utm.edu/nthprime/index.php
Prime search engine.

 

MAPPING

https://www.freemaptools.com
Lots of tools fo maps, measure distances, draw circles, projections, etc, but also a postcode to lat/long converter.

http://www.fizzymagic.net/Geocaching/FizzyCalc/
Excellent tool to convert between co-ordinate systems, plus co-ordinate & distance projections. N.B. needs download.

http://www.synnatschke.de/geo-tools/coordinate-converter.php
Online co-ordinate converter.

http://www.geocachingtoolbox.com
All geocaching tools in one box - e.g. incomplete coordinates tool.

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/calculators
Great for drawing lines at bearings or perimeter distance around or between co-ordinates.

http://geo.javawa.nl/coordcalc/index_en.html
Calculating with coordinates (intersections, projections, circles, centers, etc - just choose from the drop-down menu.)

 

PUZZLES

http://anagram-solver.net
Anagram solver.

http://wordsmith.org/anagram
Another anagram solver.

http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/alphamet/alphasolve.shtml
Alphametic puzzle solver http://boulter.com/anagram/ Anagram solver.

https://books.google.com/ngrams
Useful when searching to extend a crib. Just enter word1 word 2 then a * to find out the 10 most likely words to follow those first two words. The * can go any where in the sequence of up to 5 words total. (e.g. enter "one * in ten").

http://www.sudoku-solutions.com
Sudoku Solver.

http://sudokuspoiler.azurewebsites.net
Irregular sudoku solver.

http://www.sudokuwiki.org/sudoku.htm
Another Sudoku solver.

http://www.mlsite.net/neknek
Killer Sudoku solver.

http://niallsudoku.com/pages/solver.html
KenKen puzzle solver.

http://boulter.com/cribbage
Cribbage scorer.

http://delphiforfun.org/Programs/logicproblemsolver.htm
Solves logic problems commonly found in puzzle magazines and books.

http://www.jsingler.de/apps/index.php?language=en
Another logic problem solver, and some others.

https://www.kakuro-online.com/slitherlink
Slitherlink solver - connect horizontally and vertically adjacent dots so that the lines form a simple loop

http://www.iread.it/cryptarithms.php
Alphametic puzzle solver.

http://www.anagrammy.com/resources/anagramartist.html
N.B. requires download. Has a link to download a great anagramming tool, Anagram Artist (Windows only).

http://www.litscape.com
Lots of word-finder tools and literature help.

http://www3.oneacross.com
Crossword and acrostics help.

http://a.teall.info/nonogram
Nonogram (“Japanese crossword”) solver.

 

ASSORTED

https://www.babelfish.com
Online translation between various languages.

https://calendarhome.com/calculate/convert-a-date/
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tc.cgi#top
Convert a date to various alternative calandar formats (Julian, Hebrew, Mayan, etc.)

http://www.iata.org/about/members/Pages/airline-list.aspx?All=true
IATA Airline codes.

http://luthorien.altervista.org/Tools
Lots of links, including wedding anniversary traditional gifts, guitar chords, date & time difference, chess notation.

https://goodlogo.com
Various logos.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html
Physics with calculators: Mechanics, Electricity, Magnetism, Light, Vision, Heat, Thermodynamics, Sound, Hearing, Relativity, etc.

http://usscouts.org/advancementTOC.asp#rank
Lots of info about US scouting ranks and merit badges.

 

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Re: Puzzle/Mystery Cache Helpful links  

  By: Brokers on May 24, 2019, 9:40 a.m.

You can also try this service the free divx to avi converter https://onlineconvertfree.com/convert-format/divx-to-avi/

Re: Puzzle/Mystery Cache Helpful links  

  By: jackliensam on Oct. 8, 2020, 10:18 a.m.

Thanks for this info. I found few broken links. I suggest you to use

Unit Converter.

Word Unscrambler

 

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Reason: minor changes

Re: Puzzle/Mystery Cache Helpful links  

  By: DawgsFan81 on Oct. 27, 2020, 4:32 p.m.

Wow, tons of useful stuff in this thread - thanks. Here are some tools I have used to quickly get the text out of pictures, which has helped to extract addresses or street names.

You can also use the second one to translate any foreign letters or characters into English: https://www.onlineocr.net/  https://www.bisok.com/grooper-data-capture-method-features/multi-pass-ocr/ Hope this helps!

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Re: Puzzle/Mystery Cache Helpful links  

  By: M.Baker on Sept. 6, 2022, 1:19 p.m.

When I hear the word “math”, I tend to think of equations and numbers. But there’s more to math than that! There are three types of math: arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. Arithmetic involves using the basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations. Algebra involves solving an equation or relationship between variables. Geometry involves shapes, angles, and lines. Math isn’t just about math. It’s a way of thinking. It’s a method of problem solving. Math is one of the primary tools that makes up the language of science.

Re: Puzzle/Mystery Cache Helpful links  

  By: Rebel1 on Nov. 23, 2022, 7:47 a.m.

Wow, this thread has a tonne of helpful information; thanks. Here are some tools I've used to quickly extract text from images, which has made it easier to extract street names or addresses.

Re: Puzzle/Mystery Cache Helpful links  

  By: Clarissa1 on Nov. 26, 2022, 6:45 p.m.

Equations and numbers come to mind when I hear the term "math." But arithmetic is more complicated than that! Arithmetic, algebra, and geometry are the three categories of mathematics. The fundamental addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations are used in arithmetic. In algebra, an equation or connection between variables must be solved. Shapes, angles, and lines all play a role in geometry. Math is more than simply math. It is a mode of thought. It is a technique for solving issues. One of the key components of the language of science is math.

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  By: LZ33 on Nov. 29, 2022, 8:20 a.m.

@ jackliensam @ DawgsFan81 @ M.Baker @ Rebel1 @ Clarissa1

Thanks for your information. I never knew that about math.  "Arithmetic, algebra, and geometry are the three categories of mathematics." and "The fundamental addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations are used in arithmetic."

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  By: Clarissa1 on Dec. 5, 2022, 6:45 a.m.

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  By: MattieFoley on Jan. 29, 2023, 1:28 a.m.

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Great resources for puzzle solving and cipher decoding! Two links that I would recommend are:

  1. http://parmstro.weebly.com/ which is a complete site dedicated to solving puzzle caches with sections on solving puzzles, blank caches, URLs, a sample workflow, hints for all of parmstro's caches and some sample worked solutions to parmstro's caches. It also contains links to useful sites.
  2. http://www.geocachingtoolbox.com/which is a great site that includes all geocaching tools in one box and is comprehensive, including ciphers and codes, as well as other tools like the incomplete coordinates tool.

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  By: sudoku on Feb. 18, 2023, 8:46 a.m.

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  By: teniie on March 17, 2023, 12:53 p.m.

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