Yes, the ARR ones giving clues (and I was disappointed that the HW-ones didnt anymore) - thats what I liked so much about them at the first glance! They're also hinting time and weather conditions, but at least the german version (my client is german) is often veeeeery cryptic - specially when you have to consider that there can be the combination of:
- figuring out the excat spot
- figuring out if a special emote is involved
- figuring out the correct time
- figuring out the correct weather
- have the last two aline

I really feel the best compromisse would be to have weather OR time - I can keep an eye on one of those, but tracking both seems "inconvenient" (specially when this should be more some sort of "fun"-content instead of a horrible grind - personally I like the little lore-snipptes I'm getting from this a lot!).
I like riddles and I would like them back - just in a way that actually allows me to solve them.

(For example: Number 18, the one with the gobbue in eastern thanalan: the german text gives no hint at all that there is only a small timeframe from 5pm to 6 pm for this one - it quite clearly hints the weather and the required emote, I was able to figure that out myself. But the time? No chance - and its also not necessary to make this more complicated that one condition on top of spot and maybe emote)