[FRC Blog] 2014 Game Hint

[BigJ]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

Colchester is also a city in England, and there were a couple episodes of Dr. Who set there.

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Colchester Says that Colchester was visited by the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, who was mentioned in that one blog post.

[magnets]

has anybody tried coordinates yet? I got some place in the desert by dividing the numbers.

Also, I haven't found anything with doing decimal to ascii or that sort of thing.

[Rangel]

On Febuary 26th, 1963, the 57th day of 1963, it seems their is a space related event that occured.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1963

A final piece of debris from the decaying orbit of Mars 2MV-4 No.1 re-entered the earth's atmosphere.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by BigJ

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Colchester Says that Colchester was visited by the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, who was mentioned in that one blog post.

We also have a couple of episodes with the eleventh doctor, Matt Smith, which were set there.

The Lodger

Closing Time

[Calvin Hartley]

Originally Posted by 4404 PCH Colts

side note, whos @FakeGDC

Here's your answer.

Originally Posted by @FakeGDC

4404 PCH Colts on Chief Delphi asks who I am. My name is quite clear - I'm the GDC. http://puu.sh/5T8oA.png

[BleakRNS]

Personal opinion is that it's another cipher with nothing to do with ZIP codes or years but here's what Wikipedia has to say about 1963 in science:

-Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane coins the word "clone".
-Edward Lorenz publishes his discovery of the 'butterfly effect', significant in the development of chaos theory.
-November 23 - First episode of science fiction television series Doctor Who broadcast by the BBC in the United Kingdom.

Something else interesting but probably irrelevant:
8/2/1934: Hitler becomes Fuhrer

[Cecil]

Originally Posted by Bryce Paputa

Maybe some type of mail game?

All I could think about when you said that was this...

Now all we have to do is make an accurate mail sorter that can hand out jury duty. The post office will love us!

[Brandon Zalinsky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSLlZh9yelk

[JRuegsegger]

Going off the whole number searching thing:

First result on Wikipedia for 8234 is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8234_Nobeoka which is an asteroid discovered by a Japanese astronomer.

For the year 57 on Wikipedia, I got http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57 which has some Japanese history about writing.

I have no idea what this could mean, though.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by BleakRNS

Personal opinion is that it's another cipher with nothing to do with ZIP codes or years

I'm betting it's both a cipher and a clever connection to Dr. Who-- the Dr. Who references are just fun red herrings they threw in there to give us mortals something to look at while someone actually cracks the cipher.

[jwallace15]

Not only did 1963 hold the beginning of Doctor Who, but it also contained the assassination of President John F. Kennedy... Perhaps something to do with that?

He was shot from a book depository...

Books go on shelves...

Stacking things onto shelves?

[JohnFogarty]

I'd love life if it was a doctor who refrence.

[cadandcookies]

I'm really liking the "Who's on FIRST" game name theory right now.

[Gregor]

Ascii code 144 is É

144-31=133

Ascii code 133 is à.

133-4 is 129.

Ascii code 129 is ü.

Éàü = eau.

eau means water in French.

Watergame.

*I'm not smart enough to figure that out, Natalia from 1310 is the genius behind it.

[Brandon Zalinsky]

I seriously hope it's not a Dr. Who reference.

Also 1963 = JFK shot = JFK challenged USA to "go to the moon in this decade" = moon game = Lunacy