Re: "What is may not be"
 

Oh no, dave's getting existential on us.

Do I retreat and say that this is just Dave tormenting me?

Or do I start pondering the ability for a robot to self-actually discern the difference between the true reality of its surroundings and the sensory input it receives?

I dont know what to do.

Re: "What is may not be"
 

wait 10 days, 19 hours, and 01 minute

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Well, let me throw this out there. Am I the only one who thinks that he's purposely doing this to throw us off track (no pun intended)? The first three letters seem totally random. We started this whole Morse Code thing the day after the initial "...". Who else thinks that he's just playing right into what we want him to do?

Re: "What is may not be"
 

Nope, that was the first thing I said in the other "dave's game hint" thread.

It was clearly stated a few times by one of us "partially sane" people that it said "This is not a hint"

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I think - once a riddle maker, always a riddle maker and in Dave's case, this is an understatement. The more he can perplex, the happier he is.

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I put this in the hint#1 thread.
But should put it here.
The second sentence is "What is may not be."
Using an anagram of these letters results in "Maybe As hint Two."

Thus we might need to decode the first sentence to find hint #2??
:yikes:

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I see "SII NOTHIN(G) IS (W)HAT I(T) APPEARS TO BE, WHAT IS MAY NOT BE."

I suspect those two initial "I"s, perhaps they are "E" instead?

Oh, and folks who use Code don't ever call them dots and dashes - instead they are "Dit" and Dah", since this is what they sound like. Like:

Dahdit Dididahdahdah Didit Didahdit Dahdahdidah

.-

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So perhaps Dave wasn't saying anything at all? Perhaps he was singing us a song or a rhythm? A song whose title or lyrics could lead us to a hint?

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We're one of a kind
Like dip di-dip--
Oh, wait. Maybe it's not that song :rolleyes:

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I did a search for SII and saw this -

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/sii/

Re: "What is may not be"
 

This is my thinking exactly. Dave's "hint" is that the 2010 game will not be the same as the 2009 game. It was one of those "ummm, duh!?" moments.

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Shall we call this clue, "Lavery's Guillotine" as opposed to "Hume's Guillotine"? ;)

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Anybody else see this and get a certain Police song stuck in their heads?

Regarding "what is may not be" I see a change in tense. To put it another way, the way things are now, they may not be the same in the future. Perhaps the field, or some component, dynamically changes throughout the game.

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This may also be another way of saying "Read the rules".
Maybe some BIG changes this year?

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looking at the letter grouping of the first sentence:

no/thi/ngisw/hatita/ppear/sto/be

it looks like these could be anagrammed (is that a word?)

on / hit / swing / ???then it goes south for me,

at a hit / paper / sot / be

Anyway, hitting something then swinging around sounds like fun!