When a bot throws bad data at your form then the decrypt for the honeytime will throw a Illuminate\Encryption\DecryptException exception which does not get caught. I wrapped my validation in a try catch to handle it on my end for now, but it would be nice if this was handled internally.
Suggested a pull request from the main-developer of this repo. https://github.com/msurguy/Honeypot/pull/10 . Should fix your issue in a way that is standardized True/False.
When a bot throws bad data at your form then the decrypt for the honeytime will throw a Illuminate\Encryption\DecryptException exception which does not get caught. I wrapped my validation in a try catch to handle it on my end for now, but it would be nice if this was handled internally.