Historical Clue Histeria

[Molten]

Ok, this thread is to discuss the clues of the past. NOT to start clues of the future.

The idea is simple: Every year, there is a clue that comes out and of course none of us can resist a challenge. We pull in resources from a pop trivia to photo shop to what Lavery wore to a competition and numerous other things to try and solve an unsolvable puzzle.

In doing this we create 50+ pages worth of thread in a very short time period. The hours that go into researching a sentence or a single picture is impressive. In this thread, let's post some of the most dedicated discoveries/interesting things from previous clues.

One of my personal favorites:

They gave us a picture of a fish with obscured text, and not only did we manage to decipher the text. We managed to crash every site that had that phrase on it.

[Eugene Fang]

Originally Posted by Molten

Ok, this thread is to discuss the clues of the past. NOT to start clues of the future.

Uh oh. I have a feeling that Dave will be tormenting us pretty soon by posting a new "clue"...

Who says he hasn't already?



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[EricH]

I have to say the 2006 season.

To start out, the official hint was:

..........five 'bots tangling with pasta
a game piece obsessed with a shovel's show
.....and seeing Montana's green heights

Dave's "hints" included comments about a fox being in the henhouse and hovercrafts and the English Channel.

"shovel's show" was a reference to "Just Shoot Me", starring David Spade. But a lot of people went after "seeing Montana's green heights" and researched Joe Montana, the state of Montana, and anything related. (Montana was just a placeholder, IIRC. Something had to go between "seeing" and "green heights".) Oh, yeah--some people tried the haiku angle. They hadn't seen the shape.

2007 was pretty good too. Had lots of people playing with photoshop. One even pulled a fake by inserting a banana. The game piece was, however, correctly guessed.

[Alex Dinsmoor]

I haven't experienced many clues, but I really enjoyed this year's clue and the fact that we guessed an ice game was amazing. I'm still awed that we can guess the game so accurately.

[EricLeifermann]

2004's clue was a quote from Stairway to Heaven. And that game had stairs even though they were the smallest stairs ever...

[JesseK]

2008. They gave us three pretty obvious numbers, and we even got the location correct. Yet we kept looking out 100's of feet from a statue when the clue was only a few feet away. Tortoise and Hare ftw.

[Molten]

Originally Posted by Alex Dinsmoor

I'm still awed that we can guess the game so accurately.

If we guess 5000 things and one happens to be right, is that really accurate?

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Molten

If we guess 5000 things and one happens to be right, is that really accurate?

or how about the fact that if you guess it right you'll never know until the game is released anyway...

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Molten

They gave us a picture of a fish with obscured text, and not only did we manage to decipher the text. We managed to crash every site that had that phrase on it.

Now, how cool is that?

Even if the exact game, and all its details, were to be guessed in the very first post ...... who would know?

What's truly amazing is how close we get in the first twenty or thirty posts. And how it continues for hundreds more... It's fun, it occupies otherwise anxious minds, and shows just how awesome a tool the Internet is.

[Josh Goodman]

I'd have to agree with Eric. 2006 was my favorite. I guess my favorite part was when it got revealed and everyone had that "Aha!" moment. It's the only game so far (I don't think) where any post was correct about any part of the game. I wish dave would go back to riddles. They're fun!

[Molten]

Originally Posted by Josh Goodman

I wish dave would go back to riddles. They're fun!

Yes...100% Yes. I can't photo shop at all and am pretty well left out of picture fun. However, most everyone can take apart a riddle and find something in it.

[EricLeifermann]

Originally Posted by Josh Goodman

I'd have to agree with Eric. 2006 was my favorite. I guess my favorite part was when it got revealed and everyone had that "Aha!" moment. It's the only game so far (I don't think) where any post was correct about any part of the game. I wish dave would go back to riddles. They're fun!

Like I said in 2004 the riddle was a quote for "Stairway to Heaven". We guessed that there would be stairs and there was, so i would have to say that 2006 wasn't the first year that someone got it right.

[Josh Goodman]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

Like I said in 2004 the riddle was a quote for "Stairway to Heaven". We guessed that there would be stairs and there was, so i would have to say that 2006 wasn't the first year that someone got it right.

Yes, I apologize. Since 2006 was my first kickoff, I wasn't aware of the 2004 one (until now). It was the only one in "my highschool first generation".