Help needed to determine what kind of cipher/code this is

[+happy fun guys]

Could someone please help steer me in the right direction on this on? I have checked all my normal code breaking sites, and even some new ones, but can find nothing to suggest what type of code is used. The code looks like this: 0x530x690x6e0x630x65 0x740x680x650x6e 0x770x65 0x680x610x760x65 0x6c0x650x610x720x6e0x650x64 0x740x680x610x74 0x740x680x65 0x740x650x630x680x6e0x690x710x750x65 0x770x65 0x680x610x64. I do not want to know what it says, just pointed in the right direction. Thanks!

[+niraD]

According to section 2-D of the geocaching.com terms of use, "You agree not to: [...] xxiii. Publish on our websites the solutions, hints, spoilers, or any hidden coordinates for any geocache without consent from the geocache owner.” However, here are some general puzzle tips (based in part on a puzzle-solving class event presented by The Rat a while ago):

 

Identify the theme. Check the cache title, the hint, the HTML source, the graphics (including names/URLs), any links (including URLs), whatever is at the posted coordinates, etc. If you can figure out the theme, then you should look for numbering systems that are associated with that theme (zip codes, athletes’ jersey numbers, episode numbers, product codes, etc.).

 

Around here, coordinates will have 15 digits, and will look like "N 37° xx.xxx W 122° xx.xxx". So when I'm solving a nearby puzzle, I look for a group of 15 things, and then I look for ways to get the digits 37xxxxx122xxxxx from them. In general, I look for ways to get the number 37 (or the digits 3 and 7) from something near the beginning of the puzzle, and the number 122 (or the digits 1, 2, and 2) from something near the middle of the puzzle. (Of course, you'll need to adjust this for the coordinates near you.)

 

Other useful resources include:

Puzzle Solving 101 Series (bookmark list)

Calgary Puzzle Solving 101 (bookmark list)

Puzzle Shortcuts Series (bookmark list)

Solving Puzzle Caches (online article)

How Do I Solve All These $@! Puzzle Caches? (tutorial-style puzzle cache)

Puzzle FUNdamentals (archived event cache) and the Puzzle FUNdamentals resources on the GeocacheAlaska! education page

The GBA's Puzzle Cache FAQ (for puzzle designers, but useful for understanding how puzzle caches work)

LANAKI's Classical Cryptography Course

How to Puzzle Cache (book)

[+Touchstone]

Did you try contacting the cache owner?

[+happy fun guys]

This is the description for this forum: "Wondering how the site works or how to accomplish some geocaching-related task? Ask your fellow geocachers here." That is exactly what I asked for. How to accomplish a geocaching-related task. I in no way compromised the integrity of this cache. I copied a very small section of one part of a 5/5 mystery that contains twenty to thirty some different puzzles. If niraD had bothered to read my post, instead of skimming through it, they would have seen I only want to be pointed in the right direction. The generic copy and pasted post that you replied with had no useful information other than to show me that this game has become full of cachers that don't care about helping one another. The cache owners are not really active anymore and I don't know any of the other cachers that have found this one. If the object of these forums are not to help each other out, then whats the point?

[+cheech gang]

Object to help each other? Yes

Object to help solve puzzles? No

[+Touchstone]

niraD, niraD, niraD. Now my feelings are hurt because I was left out.

 

A little background on some forum etiquette might help resolve this for you. It's considered bad form to ask for help on puzzles on the forum. Period. niraD has a well crafted, helpful response that he has used on numerous occasions, and one that I and others frequently quote in these circumstances.

 

The helpful response you were hoping for, is actually a show of respect to the cache owners that put these difficult puzzles together. If you think that the forum regulars can't figure out the listing your clue comes from, well, you've got a lot to learn.

[+cheech gang]

BTW, the owner of the cache in question visited GC.com within the past week and found a cache within the past 2 months. Hardly " not really active anymore"

Edited August 24, 2016 by cheech gang

[+niraD]

If niraD had bothered to read my post, instead of skimming through it,

For the record, I did read your post. I also decoded the snippet you posted, and read the description of the cache you copy-pasted it from.

 

they would have seen I only want to be pointed in the right direction.

Please reread the first paragraph of my post. I'm not sure how to point you in the right direction without posting "solutions, hints, spoilers, or any hidden coordinates".

 

If you think that the forum regulars can't figure out the listing your clue comes from, well, you've got a lot to learn.

Yeah, there wasn't even any ambiguity to sort through.

[+GeoTrekker26]

...then whats the point?

 

I think you miss the point of unknown caches. Often (usually?) figuring out how to approach the puzzle IS THE PUZZLE. Once you do that the rest is often a mechanical exercise. So you were actually asking for the solution to the snippet you posted.

 

If you want help, send a note to the CO. Be sure to include all the steps you've tried so the CO can get a feel for how hard you have worked and will have a basis to give you a nudge. If he wants.

[+TeamRabbitRun]

I feel I have to point out that you mouthed-off at the people who had posted the earliest responses, and THEN, those same people and MORE continued to respond to you, with the intent of orienting you to how things are done here instead of taking your abuse personally.

 

I know of no other internet forum where you wouldn't have been slammed and then ignored.

 

Now, go back, review your comment about "cachers that don't care about helping one another", say you're sorry, let's be friends and co-hobbyists and get back to work. There's an awful lot of stuff to find out there.