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Originally Posted by ElectronJohn
1) GPS coordinates and compass bearing plus Hint 1 - are they re-introducing the IR tracking beacons?
The GPS location may not be the Statue of John Copley, but lets follow that train of thought for a moment.
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3) Looking up John S Copley in Wikipedia - one can find his paintings. For the late 1700s the colors are stunningly brilliant. I expect illuminated targets of several colors.
4) Reading Wikipedia, I followed the link "The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782" and read about that. It appears the British developed the innovative "hot potato" to destroy the barriers. I don't know about any burning hot objects, but "hot potato" would be a good contest name. (Have a game piece the opposing team(s) don't want)
EJ  |
The 'hot potato' idea is really interesting. What if the game piece has different modes that change what score it gets or what you need to do with it, and we use the IR to determine what mode it's in?
Also, going back to the K'Nex in the first hint, what if we sense whether a piece is red or blue using the IR, then connect it to another piece of the correct color to score... But we could lose points if we incorrectly identify it, of if it changes.
Thinking a bit further outside the box (and my appologies in advance if this has already been suggested in the past 7 pages of this thread), or maybe inside the box- we had tetras for triangles, ringers for circles, so the 08 game could use cubic or square game pieces. It could be a game of stacking cubes, but you could include the gerbil hint if our task were to assemble "cages" out of square game pieces. Or maybe we'd have to put a color-changing "hot potato" into a box.