Official 2005 Clue Thread

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Oh the joy of trying to figure out the game just over a week ahead of time.
Red+Blue=purple
Blue is the color of water, red of fire. They wouldnt have fire in a FIRST game, so it must be a water game!

Water and Fire make steam.. Let's get this game already and go FULL STEAM AHEAD!!!

Reminds me of a picture of an Engineer that JVN posted a while ago! Choo Choo!!

Speaking of JVN, we have not heard from him yet, even though his (sorta) name is in the clue.. Odd..

[Joel J]

I have some more information..

There is a book, The Amethyst Spectacles, that was written in 1944 (or 1946) by Francis Crane. It is a mystery and suspense book, but more importantly its in the Private Investigator (Pi) genre. Anyway, here is a quick summary of the book (saw it somewhere online):

The intrusion of murder tears apart the tranquility of New Mexico's canyon ranch country, where Patrick and Jean Abbott live. This was the last place where the Abbotts expected to see death, and the fact that the victim was one of their friends makes the event doubly shocking. Beneath the seemingly carefree existence of their group, Patrick and Jean discover deep undercurrents of intrigue and jealousy. The principal clue to a surprising solution is a pair of spectacles, in frames of violet-blue shell resembling amethyst. The glasses had a terrifying habit of suddenly appearing in the most unexpected places. Main character: Patrick Abbott

That sets off a number of ideas in my mind.

1. Is there a connection in the year?
2. Those glasses are now seeming like the glasses from FLL.
3. The glasses appeared unexpectedly and in weird places. This is similar to how some people wanted autonomous mode, eh?
4. Pi: 2. any confused mixture; jumble.

This may go somewhere at some point, heh.

[Rich Wong]

Originally Posted by Swampdude

I think we need to keep some valid hints active in this assessment:

There's the new official hint

There's the one that begat the new official hint

There's the original done in the style of the past, as "the manual signature hint"

I'm certain that these 3 are the real deal.

Here is one more "baseball reference" from Dave:

Tweet! Upon further consideration, the umpire has determined that this is an illegal pitch. Lucien has thrown us a spitball. The pitch is called as a "ball." There is a full count, and the runner will advance to first on the next ball.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...168#post311168
AND don't forget this:
"The best Christmas gift I received -
A DVD version of Clint Eastwood in "Dirty Harry" - my family knows me so well! (I've watched it four times already! "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?" - one of the best movie lines EVER!!!)
Are you sure you DIDN'T already get that?-dave"

[Sparks333]

this may be a huge coincidnce, but George Burns, in 1983, had a birdie average of 3.14 (Pi). Which Geroge Burns is this, the guy who plays golf or is the narrator in 'Solid Gold Cadillac'?

Sparks

[dlavery]

Nineteen pages of discusssion in just over 24 hours. This may just be the fastest-growing CD thread ever. Outstanding! It is really going to be fun right after kick-off and the unvieling of the game to read back through this thread and see who was right, who was close, and who was way, way, way wrong!

-dave

[sanddrag]

I don't know if this is of any significance, but there was a baseball player by the name of Pi at around the same time period as the other two. http://premium.si.cnn.com/baseball/m...ayers/s/46775/

[Rich Wong]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Nineteen pages of discusssion in just over 24 hours. This may just be the fastest-growing CD thread ever. Outstanding! It is really going to be fun right after kick-off and the unvieling of the game to read back through this thread and see who was right, who was close, and who was way, way, way wrong!

-dave

Oh boy!
Another contest......

My bet is a BASBALL Field!
1. Pi is related to the Great Pyramids; the height is 1 while the sides are Pi/2 (that's the theory!)
2. Amethyst has a pyramid shape atomic structure
3. the base of the pyramid is square like a baseball diamond
4. The official clue references two baseball players on 1st base
5. From 1st base you must travel three more bases to score at home plate
(my brain is in pain... can't sleep must think.....)

[Mr. Steve]

Originally Posted by dlavery

to read back through this thread and see who was right, who was close, and who was way, way, way wrong!

Thereby implying somebody is on the right track so far....

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Nineteen pages of discusssion in just over 24 hours. This may just be the fastest-growing CD thread ever. Outstanding! It is really going to be fun right after kick-off and the unvieling of the game to read back through this thread and see who was right, who was close, and who was way, way, way wrong!

-dave

I only see 10. Guess we need to try harder!


Wetzel

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Nineteen pages of discusssion in just over 24 hours. This may just be the fastest-growing CD thread ever. Outstanding! It is really going to be fun right after kick-off and the unvieling of the game to read back through this thread and see who was right, who was close, and who was way, way, way wrong!

-dave

Dave, what else are you going to do make our 8 days of life MORE stressful?

[Sparks333]

I betcha the FIRST officials in the know come in here from time to time and either gasp and think of how to make next year's clue harder or fall off their chair laughing.

Just a random thought.

Sparks

[Swampdude]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Nineteen pages of discusssion in just over 24 hours. This may just be the fastest-growing CD thread ever. Outstanding! It is really going to be fun right after kick-off and the unvieling of the game to read back through this thread and see who was right, who was close, and who was way, way, way wrong!

-dave

There it is again... 3!

[Michael Leicht]

would if this hint is just a small part of the game and has nothing to do with the field. maybe you get 3x the losers score. and you have the same point system.

[Lil' Lavery]

On a more serious note than my last post, maybe something is on the field as well inbetween Pi, You and Me. Could you and me be the 2(yes, im sticking with 2 for now) teams, and Pi be the triangle. In between the triangle, you, and me would sugest that the triangle would be off to the side(forming another triangle between the 2 player stations and it). The object we'd be looking for would be in the middle of those 3 points. Now the glasses come into play. Ultraviolet(purple-amethyst), and infrared are on opposit sides of the spectrum, and wearing purple glasses would filter out certain spectrums of light. Maybe that is what were looking for. A certain spectrum of light in between those points, coughIRcough.

[Paradox1350]

Except that filtering wouldn't matter; you would need some sort of camera to process the light and then output it onto a monitor. Our eyes cannot see IR light, or UV light. If you filter it, you are only filtering out the stuff that isn't it, but you aren't changing its wavelength, and thus it's not visible.

Now if FIRST wanted to hook up IR cameras and put monirtors in the driver's pit, that'd be swank. ^_^


By the way, anyone ever wonder if FIRST would make it so that we didn't decide where our bot started, but our opponents did? That wouldn't make the IR beacon in a random/changing spot, but it WOULD make the bot NEED to use some sort of poisitioning system (IR) to figure out where it is . . . although this has nothing to do with the clue . . .


As for Pi, what if the objects on the field were frisbees? I doubt it, since there's no easy way to throw it over the shielding (unless you are extremely good at hte hammer-toss) but FIRST has used all sorts of balls, boxes, doughnot-beanbag-thingies, and even a pleaying field with corn kernals as the turf. Frisbees would be fun, and not hte wierdest thing ever ^_^