Official 2005 Clue Thread

[sanddrag]

Can we get anything from this in Dave's latest post

Let's go off on a slight tangent while I throw a cautionary note in here.

Pi is what makes circles, and Dave is talking about tangents. Hrmm. And then he says "throw" Hrmm. Baseballs, donuts, I don't know...

[Scott L.]

Glasses are made of 2 circular lenses connected by a Bridge.
6 sided crystal.

Maybe the game involves a bridge that moves in multiple (6) directions. (Like balanced on one central pivot)



You Can Anything if You Put Your Mind to It.

I Googled John Neun, because the name seemed familiar.
There is a mysterious "John V. Neun" who has been mentioned for years in this forum. I don't know if this is a real person or an alias. I have a super slow connection this weekend, and haven't been able to research further. So "John Neun" might have two meanings, "George Burns" might have two meanings. Everything in the riddle can have multiple meanings. What does it all mean? Maybe the best solution to the game involves Group(Set) Theory, Fractal Geometry, and Topology. The game committee wants us to "DO THE MATH."


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[MikeDubreuil]

Originally Posted by Dr.Bot

I Googled John Neun, because the name seemed familiar.
There is a mysterious "John V. Neun" who has been mentioned for years in this forum. I don't know if this is a real person or an alias.

There is an actual person named John Vielkind-Neun who usually shortens his name to JVN. He is a mechanical engineering student at Clarkson University and is on their team, #229 Division by Zero.
There was much excitment when John's father, also named John Neun began posting on the forum. He is an engineer on team #20 The Rocketeers.

Of course, the question is: we all know Dave Lavery is on the game design comittee. The name John Neun would be known to most people on the forum and many in the FIRST community. He obviously picked that name to confuse us. Was he thinking of something in particular about John Neun, and specifically which CD poster; or was he thinking about Johhny Neun the baseball player?

[Ted Boucher]

Ok... it is kind of weird but I think that it might relate to one of the game guesses in this thread.

Innovation First still has not released their robot controller or operator interface for 2005. Could this mean that they made a major change to the controllers that might give away the 2005 game? I was thinking along the lines of a different radio setup for the 3 vs. 3 at competitions. This would solve the problem mentioned in this thread. If they basically kept the controller form last year then wouldn’t it they just release it?

[Rickertsen2]

Originally Posted by Ted Boucher

Ok... it is kind of weird but I think that it might relate to one of the game guesses in this thread.

Innovation First still has not released their robot controller or operator interface for 2005. Could this mean that they made a major change to the controllers that might give away the 2005 game? I was thinking along the lines of a different radio setup for the 3 vs. 3 at competitions. This would solve the problem mentioned in this thread. If they basically kept the controller form last year then wouldn’t it they just release it?

The 2004 control sys setup is completely capable of 3v3. The only thing that they would have to change is the team color lights. That wouldn't be a major change at all.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by anna~marie

perhaps we need to look at the shape of Pi....<pi>

thats the shape of pi, not Pi. Capitilization matters in greek as well. And Pi means product, vs. pi meaning 3.14.....

[Elgin Clock]

Isn't the shape of pi meaning 3.14 in circle measuring terms, a straight line from the center of said circle to the diameter which relates to the number of times that straight line can be laid on top of the Diameter of the circle?

[Tom Bottiglieri]

a radius? lol

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Rickertsen2

The 2004 control sys setup is completely capable of 3v3. The only thing that they would have to change is the team color lights. That wouldn't be a major change at all.

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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

a radius? lol

No, more of a chord in pure center to diameter form, and a radius in a laid over the diameter sense..

[anna~marie]

What I am saying is that perhaps we need to *quit* thinking so much math and look only at the shape of the character Pi....

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by anna~marie

What I am saying is that perhaps we need to *quit* thinking so much math and look only at the shape of the character Pi....

Ok...

[anna~marie]

again, it could be a 3-d reference to the playing field...

[Pin Man]

Originally Posted by anna~marie

again, it could be a 3-d reference to the playing field...

how? you mean like a table or something?

[anna~marie]

Originally Posted by Pin Man

how? you mean like a table or something?

Like it could be showing depth of something - like ramp or table or even a lower pit area. The such.
But as we were saying earlier that things can have double meanings in clues, I'm not trashing the circular object idea.