Skill #3: Decoding On the bottom of the pool were Army men tied to weights. They had to retrieve all the Army men, remove the duds (those that had no letter written on the bottom) and then figure out what word the letters on the bottom of the men spelled. When accomplished, this word told them where the treasure was hidden. There were 21 Army men on the bottom. Only 9 of them a letter on the bottom. It took them a while, but they finally figured it out. Great teamwork, girls! P-L-A-Y-H-O-U-S-E!