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Isonzo Karst

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I'm not real good at "creative" hints. For micros, I generally go with some distance off the ground, something to limit the search zone.

 

90% of the time (made up stat :laughing: ) when people try to be creative with their hints, they end up with something that only has meaning AFTER you find the cache.

 

Here's the Hints article in the Help Center, maybe this will help you.

http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=222

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macatac1961

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I'm not real good at "creative" hints. For micros, I generally go with some distance off the ground, something to limit the search zone.

 

90% of the time (made up stat :laughing: ) when people try to be creative with their hints, they end up with something that only has meaning AFTER you find the cache.

 

Here's the Hints article in the Help Center, maybe this will help you.

http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=222

I agree, be creative with the hide not the hint. Creativity in the hint box just ends up being vague and not as helpful.

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dprovan

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Just don't say "magnetic" and then stick it in a tree or a bush or something. Then you're just being a jerk.

Unless the magnet is in use, say stuck to a clamp attached to a tree......I just found a well camo'd micro hid just like that.

When I find one like that, I still think the CO's being a jerk since the hint is still misleading even though it's true.

 

How about just post a picture hint, telling us exactly where to find the little bugger.

Argh! No! If there's one thing I hate, it's finding an incredibly complex search area at GZ and then reading logs that say "easy with the picture", since I can't see pictures in the field.

 

Anyway, I'm with the others: hints should be useful, not cute. (It's OK to be cute, too, just don't give it priority.) Also, focus on where the cache is hidden, not what the container is. In some rare cases, a hint telling people what they're looking for is useful, of course, but almost always because what they're looking for limits the places it could be hidden.

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J Grouchy

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Just don't say "magnetic" and then stick it in a tree or a bush or something. Then you're just being a jerk.

Unless the magnet is in use, say stuck to a clamp attached to a tree......I just found a well camo'd micro hid just like that.

When I find one like that, I still think the CO's being a jerk since the hint is still misleading even though it's true.

 

 

^^ This.

 

Better not to give any hint at all than give a misleading one. When one gives the hint that it's "magnetic", the implication is that it's attached to an obvious piece of iron or steel, like a fence, gate, electrical box, guardrail, etc. A nail or screw in a tree trunk is not obvious. You might as well cover the black nano with camo tape and give the hint "black". The intent is deception, not assistance.

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Ma & Pa

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Just don't say "magnetic" and then stick it in a tree or a bush or something. Then you're just being a jerk.

 

Hint said Magnetic. PA is checking signs near the street. Ma is on a little mound checking a tree. An SUV drives by with an open window and someone yells: "She is closer". Yep a nano attached to a small nail in a hole in the large tree.

 

 

...... I don't have a hint, but I have a hot tip, that like 80% of the general Geocaching populace doesn't know. A black nano is properly listed as a micro, not unknown or other or whatever.

 

I thought hiders could choose Unknown if they really did not want to give away the camo size or if they wanted to make it trickier.

 

PAul

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Mr.Yuck

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...... I don't have a hint, but I have a hot tip, that like 80% of the general Geocaching populace doesn't know. A black nano is properly listed as a micro, not unknown or other or whatever.

 

I thought hiders could choose Unknown if they really did not want to give away the camo size or if they wanted to make it trickier.

 

PAul

 

Yes, they could. But I'm of the opinion almost everyone who lists a nano as unknown does it because they think it's not a micro. One just came through in the email tonight, and the hint is "nano". Pretty much the only people in the world who know a nano is a micro are the forum regulars here. :laughing:

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wmpastor

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I had a nano cache with the magnet missing. I took a small piece of loose bark from a tree and glued to the nano. I hide the cache, nano side down in the fork, of the tree. It blended in perfectly.

Devious!

 

Did you provide a hint?

Not yet he didn't. He's still reading this thread for hints on giving hints! :laughing:

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Mr.Yuck

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.........Pretty much the only people in the world who know a nano is a micro are the forum regulars here. :laughing:

 

I think real cachers also are aware of that :laughing:

 

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I'm pretty serious when I say that. Just a random example, I know a 2002 joiner who had 6,000-7,000 finds, and about 100 hides before hiding their first nano a couple years ago. Unkown size with "nano" as the hint.

 

You know that thing about how non premium members can log premium member only caches? We're the only ones that know that too. :P

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Ma & Pa

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.........Pretty much the only people in the world who know a nano is a micro are the forum regulars here. :laughing:

 

I think real cachers also are aware of that :laughing:

 

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I'm pretty serious when I say that. Just a random example, I know a 2002 joiner who had 6,000-7,000 finds, and about 100 hides before hiding their first nano a couple years ago. Unkown size with "nano" as the hint.

 

You know that thing about how non premium members can log premium member only caches? We're the only ones that know that too. :P

 

I logged finds by our grandsons on premium caches without using the method mentioned here.

 

. :laughing:

 

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Mr.Yuck

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.........Pretty much the only people in the world who know a nano is a micro are the forum regulars here. :laughing:

 

I think real cachers also are aware of that :laughing:

 

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I'm pretty serious when I say that. Just a random example, I know a 2002 joiner who had 6,000-7,000 finds, and about 100 hides before hiding their first nano a couple years ago. Unkown size with "nano" as the hint.

 

You know that thing about how non premium members can log premium member only caches? We're the only ones that know that too. :P

 

I logged finds by our grandsons on premium caches without using the method mentioned here.

 

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Who would've thunk she'd go on to be a big star after becoming a last season new character on Charmed after it jumped the shark? And would've thunk we'd ever see him again after Roseanne? OK, this has nothing to do with nano hints, I'm out. :ph34r:

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