Official 2005 Clue Thread

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by anna~marie

perhaps we need to look at the shape of Pi....π

Really? How about a tunnel or a table? Maybe legs is a requirement this year.

Maybe they mean the curly kind. How about a dance contenst. (Wouldn't that be an interesting year?)

Or maybe it's a big puzzle we have to solve, and they've quietly given us 2 extra weeks to do it.

[Pat McCarthy]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

Maybe they mean the curly kind. How about a dance contenst. (Wouldn't that be an interesting year?)

Robots playing DDR! That would get a large audience! j/k

[Paradox1350]

How long as the carpeting been used? This has nothing to do with the clue, really, but how likely is it that they'll change the turf that we'll have to drive on?

[Steve Howland]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

This thread would probably make it to a thousand replies if it wasn't for the fact that kickoff is next Saturday.

Well...the hint has been out for 2 days and there are 7 days until kickoff. We have 300 replies, so at this rate there will be over 1000 replies by kickoff!

P.S. There have been many repeated ideas. If you intend for others to read your posts, please kindly read the ideas posted before yours. This is not meant as a attack on certain people, but it would save many people time (and CD server space) if you checked for similar ideas before posting.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Paradox1350

How long as the carpeting been used? This has nothing to do with the clue, really, but how likely is it that they'll change the turf that we'll have to drive on?

If memory serves me right (and if I'm wrong, correct me), FIRST has gone the carpet route every year since 1993. Only in 1992 did they use something else (cough)corn(cough)

As for the shape of pi, I think it'd be quite interesting to see how robots would get over that.

[goliathdrakken]

I think it is related to The Beatles, last year it was as simple as the song title, Stairway to Heaven. I wouldn't be surprised if it had to do with rings as some others said. I dont think the hint needs to be analized so much.

[Addy]

Originally Posted by goliathdrakken

I think it is related to The Beatles, last year it was as simple as the song title, Stairway to Heaven. I wouldn't be surprised if it had to do with rings as some others said. I dont think the hint needs to be analized so much.

I don't know, the Beatles thing seems a bit iffy to me. Last year, like you said, it was clear, but this year all we're going on for the Beatles (correct me if I'm wrong, I may have missed something in the 300+ posts!) is just "John" and "George". If we had been given John and George, no last names, I would have agreed with you, but I think that this time, it's pretty clear that it's the baseball.

[anna~marie]

Originally Posted by Paradox1350

How long as the carpeting been used? This has nothing to do with the clue, really, but how likely is it that they'll change the turf that we'll have to drive on?

I seriously doubt a major change in flooring, as agreed. But if they did (doubtful) then many drivetrain systems would have to be reconfigured. Besides, how would they even choose what flooring?

[Conor Ryan]

i and a friend have found some intresting facts.

John Neun- Neun means Nine, could mean something

If that triple play they both had came against clevland this leads me to something else, the amethyst Glasses. Bono of U2 wheres those colored glasses all the time, and what do you know? Its Their inauguration year into the Rock and Roll hall of Fame in Cleveland this march on National Pi Day, (3/14)

here are his glasses, notice the amethyst color here


now to find how it relates to the competiton

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by BurningQuestion

…so uppercase Pi is used as the “product” symbol eh?

Does this mean that there will be a multiplier in this game? Like the 2x ball from last year and the stacks from 2003

I'm definately agreeing here, I bet the score will be able to be multiplied somehow via doubler objects or possibly stopping the clock again early. I don't think there will be more the 4 teams per round this year, I'm just having a hard time trying to figure out where purple is coming in... possibly purple field objects. Oh who knows... can't wait to find out what the game is ^_^

[Mr. A]

Heres a thought.
The only way George Burns could see himself would be with a mirror or camera. Maybe a little webcam on the robot? Maybe the amethyst glasses have something to do with this.
Hmmmm

[Max Lobovsky]

I gave up trying to keep up with this thread at about post 150. Does anyone who has kept up care to summarize the ideas currently floating around? Thanks.

[663.keith]

Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky

I gave up trying to keep up with this thread at about post 150. Does anyone who has kept up care to summarize the ideas currently floating around? Thanks.

a summary of over 150 posts! . Most people have given ideas as to what the clue means (go figure). Some claim that the clue has everything to do with the Beatles, and others argue that it is all about baseball. Many (ahem) unique ideas have been brought up. Everyone is frantically trying to figure out what the clue is before the kickoff. People have even come up with entire game designs including graphics!

now on to my own 'unique' thoughts

I think that if one looks back at the clue last year (stairway to heaven), it didn't have much to do with the game, a few small steps, and two ways to get up to a platform, not very much to do at all. The clue seemed to have been there just to wet our appetite, (for which I am very glad). I think that this years clue will be similar, and we will all smack our foreheads and go "OH!" when the game is revealed.

Personally I like the idea that the amethyst has something to do with the layout of the field, or some small aspect (such as different colored Plexiglas, or neutral zones that are purple in color). I love this clue, and I have lost much sleep over it!

[OZ_341]

It is certainly fun to speculate about the game. But, I have a question for our FIRST historians out there.

Has anyone ever guessed the game exactly (or come close)? Has anyone done this more than once?

Just curious.

[Rickertsen2]

While wearing Amethyst colored glasses, John Neun gave George Burns
the following riddle: "Look closely and you will see something
between Pi, You and Me."

There are some definate constraints as to the possible meaning of this clue that have not been mentioned.

Amethyst colored - I think that the addition of the word colored means that this part of the clue has more to do with the color of Amethyst than than the structure or any other attribute ot amethyst.

Look closely and you will see something
between Pi, You and Me - Secondly there is a bit of ambiguity with the sentence structure of the last part,"Look closely and you will see something between Pi, You and Me". This could be one of two things both of which have two different meanings. It could be listing 3 things that are seen when you look closely, "something between pie", "you" and "me". It could also mean that when you look closely, you see you and me between pi.

There has been alot of concentration on connections between the various things mentioned in the clue but very little attention to how they relate in the context of the clue. FIRST could have just given us a clue that read something like "John Neun, You, Glasses, Me, pi, Amethyst, Emerald, look closely,George Burns" but they didn't. The structure of the sentence is purposeful and there for a reason.