This is the ninth in a nine part series originally written and published by ePeterso2 as part of his Puzzle Solving 101 Cache Series. Reprinted here with permission of the author. Minor edits have been made by Skottikus to apply this lesson to the Kingston Geocaching Area.

The first nine caches in this series will help you build your puzzle-solving skills. Each one contains a lesson focusing on a specific skill, examples of how to use that skill, an exercise to test that skill, and a cache (in Florida) to find as a reward. Study the lesson, complete the exercise, and you'll find the location of a geocache. Save your answers as they can be used to solve a special remote solver TB from here in Kingston as well!

Introduction

Lateral thinking is a technique used to solve a problem with nontraditional methods. Specifically, it focuses on the solution of a variety of problems according to four critical factors:

• recognizing dominant ideas that narrowly-focus the perception of a problem,
• searching for different approaches to the issues,
• eliminating rigid control of thinking, and
• using alternative ideas.

This is the eighth in a nine part series originally written and published by ePeterso2 as part of his Puzzle Solving 101 Cache Series. Reprinted here with permission of the author. Minor edits have been made by Skottikus to apply this lesson to the Kingston Geocaching Area.

The first nine caches in this series will help you build your puzzle-solving skills. Each one contains a lesson focusing on a specific skill, examples of how to use that skill, an exercise to test that skill, and a cache (in Florida) to find as a reward. Study the lesson, complete the exercise, and you'll find the location of a geocache. Save your answers as they can be used to solve a special remote solver TB from here in Kingston as well!

Introduction

This series of caches has discussed a number of different types of puzzles commonly used to hide geocaches. But some of the most difficult-to-solve puzzles are created using a method known as steganography. Steganography means literally "hidden writing". It is similar to cryptography in that it is used to send a message so that only the intended receiver can make sense of it.

This is the seventh in a nine part series originally written and published by ePeterso2 as part of his Puzzle Solving 101 Cache Series. Reprinted here with permission of the author. Minor edits have been made by Skottikus to apply this lesson to the Kingston Geocaching Area.

The first nine caches in this series will help you build your puzzle-solving skills. Each one contains a lesson focusing on a specific skill, examples of how to use that skill, an exercise to test that skill, and a cache (in Florida) to find as a reward. Study the lesson, complete the exercise, and you'll find the location of a geocache. Save your answers as they can be used to solve a special remote solver TB from here in Kingston as well!

Introduction

For as long as there has been communication, there has been a need to share information privately. Ciphers have been used by government officials, military officers, spies, ambassadors, revolutionaries, business owners, religious leaders, and more. Even the Kama Sutra discusses the use of ciphers to help women conceal the details of their liaisons, listing secret writing as #45 in the list of 64 arts that women should study (along with cooking, dressing, massage, the preparation of perfumes, conjuring, chess, bookbinding and carpentry).This lesson will not teach you enough to become a codebreaker for the NSA. It will hopefully give you a head start in turning a bunch of nonsense into a set of coordinates. By itself, it won't teach you everything there is to know about every cipher, but it will hopefully get you thinking about ciphers the right way and will give you pointers to resources to use in solving crypto puzzles and add significantly to your find counts in the greater Kingston Geocaching Area.

This is the sixth in a nine part series originally written and published by ePeterso2 as part of his Puzzle Solving 101 Cache Series. Reprinted here with permission of the author. Minor edits have been made by Skottikus to apply this lesson to the Kingston Geocaching Area.

The first nine caches in this series will help you build your puzzle-solving skills. Each one contains a lesson focusing on a specific skill, examples of how to use that skill, an exercise to test that skill, and a cache (in Florida) to find as a reward. Study the lesson, complete the exercise, and you'll find the location of a geocache. Save your answers as they can be used to solve a special remote solver TB from here in Kingston as well!

Introduction

Logic problems test your deductive reasoning skills. They challenge you to take a bunch of pieces of information and to make logical inferences from them. Academic as this sounds, they're a lot of fun.

This a lengthy lesson, but it's an important one. Logic problem solving skills are required to solve a variety of puzzles ... wordplay, mathematics, cryptography, lateral thinking, and other types of puzzles incorporate many aspects of logic problems. The skills in this lesson are some of the most universally applicable in this series.