Official 2005 Clue Thread

[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.

[Pin Man]

Originally Posted by anna~marie

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.

OH OH OH!!! HOW ABOUT MULTIPLE FLOORS!??! That would rule!

[sanddrag]

Here is a past post of mine that you all may find insteresting. link

[Hami1557]

Here is a couple ideas:

1. What is there is a total new bot design what if FIRST has purchased hexpod kits from Pi Products and a total new starting point for team bots.

2. What if FIRST has their own bot (hexpod) with IR beacon mounted on it?thus the need for tinted glasses

3. First base men = FIRST

4. I totally agree 3x3.

5. Specific scoring objects for each team and other objects that both teams can score with?

My $.02
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[Kyle]

I think that It would be great for FIRST to do something new and such as the hex Field or bot or whatever it may be and to do 3v3 because it would really level the field for rookie teams and very experienced vets so everyone has a much better chance. a team could have been around for 8 years or more but they would have the same amount of experience at building a bot that had to work on a hex Field or had to bridge a gap in someway as a rookie team would have to.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Hami1557

Here is a couple ideas:

1. What is there is a total new bot design what if FIRST has purchased hexpod kits from Pi Products and a total new starting point for team bots.

2. What if FIRST has their own bot (hexpod) with IR beacon mounted on it?thus the need for tinted glasses

1) What is Hexpod kits from Pi Products? Link?

2) Why would tinted glasses help you with an IR beacon?

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

1) What is Hexpod kits from Pi Products? Link?

2) Why would tinted glasses help you with an IR beacon?

I think they meant the tinted glass that covers the IR sensor its not clear plastic its darkened (I think) so other light and signals wont inter fear with the intended signal as much.

[anna~marie]

first base?

[henryBsick]

Originally Posted by anna~marie

first base?

John Neun and George Burns were two baseball players who have pulled unassisted triple plays. They both played first base and were in the official clue.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

2) Why would tinted glasses help you with an IR beacon?

They wouldnt, I was just saying that the tinted glasses would alter the light your seeing, and that might be a clue to the light your looking for.

On another note, Pi has more to do with a circle than a triangle, so maybe its a circle we are supposed to find. Note how there's no comma between you and me. Grammatically you only use the comma before and if the "and" is being used to connect a statement of three or more objects. So if the pi cant be in there, because then youd need the comma before and. So grammatically it means, if you look between pi, you'll see you and me(or something along those lines). So if the pi represents a circle, you and me are in a circle.

[Paradox1350]

The way we learned it in 6th grade, and the way I use it in my essays, is that yes, there should be a comma between the 'you' and the 'and'. So it should read, according to the rules we learend in grammar school, as:

"Pi, you, and me."


HOWEVER, everytime I'm reading a book, or an article, or a textbook, I'm CONSTANTLY seeing no second comma. Thus, according to the seemingly widely accepted standard, "Pi, you and me" is perfectly correct, also.


Thus, I'm not sure if we can get anything out of the lack of a comma.


I do find it very weird that there would be both a baseball, and a Beatles connection between the two names though. Either one of them is a coincidence, or both, or neither. Either way, this clue is frikken weird . . .