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Yellow is a primary color for pigments, but green is a primary color in light. It could still be something I suppose

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So here's the thing. This clue probably has two levels of "confusingness." The first one is that we're given a, seeming random, string of numbers. The assumption is that these numbers decode somehow into a series of letters, words, or other understandable data. As far as I can tell the numbers have no meaning by themselves and need to be decyphered.
I ran these numbers through a binary and hex converter and got this:
binary:
(00)10000000101010/(00)111001
()1110111011000110/(0)11110101011
()1111001101110110/(00)11110110111110
the zeros in the "()" are potential leading zeros (the calculator had an option for this.

hex:
202A/39
EEC6/7AB
F376/3DBE

No real pattern I see, but an interesting thought occurred to me as I was typing this. What if the binary is Morse code? the zeros could be dashes and the ones could be dots or the other way around. Anyone want to have a stab at translating it?

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If you reduce the third fraction (62326/15806), the numerator becomes 31163, which has a very similar pattern to 61126 (the second numerator).

Hmm.. I got nothing yet.

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Going back to this picture: http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default...ff-Filming.jpg

Im surprised no one has commented about how, from left to right, they have 0, 1, then 2 feet on the ground.

Endgame involving climbing on something? full points for fully supported, partial points for partially supported.

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Can aomeone please explain the hex color idea more in deapth and is the other numbers a colr??

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I believe the second hint of the 2008 game also pointed out a racing game pretty easily. They were coordinates of a place in Boston, and a compass heading pointing to a nearby statue of a tortoise and a hare.

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27x57 still doesnt equal 8234.

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OK, hold with me here.

In 1963 the post offices created the zip codes.
61126 is the area code for Rockford, IL.
In Rockford there is a Boy Scouts of America team; Number 57.
Googleing BSA 8234 gives you a site about a silver dollar.
http://www.greatcollections.com/Coin...llar-NGC-MS-70
Googleing silver dollar and 15806 sends you to this site, about the red rainbow-fish. By the way the rainbow-fish picture was taken in IL.
http://www.ratemyfishtank.com/friendemail.php/15806
I couldn't find anything for the last number...

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No, 8234 mm ~ 27 ft.
(27.0144 ft. to be exact)

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So the triangle formed by using the numbers as cartesian coordinates has side lengths of approximately 13894.91, 56338.04, and 52926.33. I doubt this is the actual hint, but you never know.

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Never a clear understanding of the game as it would be played, though we've been able to get bits and pieces. For example, 2009's Moonfish (moon --> lunacy).

They are fun to guess at, though. I'm pretty impressed with what's come up so quickly this year, and even though there's always water game jokes there have been some clever connections so far.

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I did briefly run through the ideas of binary, morse, hex, and all of that, even layered together. I didn't find anything. The problem is that decoding anything without any context or key can be very difficult. You need as many ideas as you can. My recent thought was that we are given Data/Key. The first number might represent data, and the second number represents a key used to decrypt this data. I'm running through a few ideas of what coding system could be applied to this, but everything has run up rather dry so far. I'm not posting any results that seem useless.

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Ok, I have a few things.

61126 = Rockford, IL
62326 = Colchester, IL
08234 = Egg Harbor Township, NJ

Now Egg Harbor has smaller towns or whatever inside them. One caught my eye. Cardiff. Now any proper Doctor Who fan will know that is the base of a LOT of Doctor Who stories.

1957 = Sputnik (The Doctor had an adventure with this)
1963 = First Doctor Who (A lot of stories are in this year too)
15806 = Some future Who story I can't find?

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Well, a quick google of the first number yields this map result:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=8234

It appears to be some small hamlet in Switzerland, which contains several roads with names like "Staanakenstrasse" -- roughly equivalent to "farmland lane", but also suspiciously similar to "Stacking".

Also -- Switzerland is landlocked. No water game this year!:ahh:

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Man, and I thought I was going to be the first one to bring up that 08234 would be a possible zip code.

I'm finding a lot of connections between two of the cities, but can never fit the third one into the mix. If it is cities, all I can think of for Colchester is coal/rock. There's also an obscure baseball thing that happened there, for those going on that theory right now. It's such a small city, it's going to be hard to get much out of it. The only sizable company I can find in it is Yetter Co, which produces agricultural equipment attachments.


Also, if you type 15806 into google, you get hits for Brandenberg, Germany.