**FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2

[emnasson303]

John Singleton Copley -> Boston Tea Party -> Throwing Tea into ... WATER!!

Hahahahaha. juuuuuust kidding. Gotta love stretching the hints =P

[Nuttyman54]

Google only returns two results for 342.242026, Both of them CD

EDIT: Mike is posting his idea himself, no need for it to be duplicated here

[DAN1504]

maybe they aren't GPS coordinates. just a thought

[Team2339]

2nd 2 numbers could be magnetic north in GPS.

[madmac625]

The library call number 342 refers to 'The U.S. Constitution And The Supreme Court', which is a large book series. 242026 might refer to a page number and section, or a book and a page number in the set...

[Barry Bonzack]

Perhaps the nature of the clues are clues.

The first clue was something you can hold/touch/assemble/teach/play with

The second clue is somewhere you go/look and possibly involves time

Perhaps there is a special scoring element you give your robot when time for autonomous mode or endgame, and it is to go somewhere to receive coordinates/instructions from IR on how to use/score it.

[Athleticgirl389]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

As nice as that would be, it's a bad idea. Colorblind people would have a problem...

Haha yes that would be quite problematic for those who have difficulties in telling clolrs apart... especially those colors and havin to do it in such rapidness haha. They wouldn't be THAT mean to us now

[StephLee]

How’s this for a stretch:
The game (or game name) involves something along the lines of “Truckin’” or “Grateful Dead.”


How I got there:

If the first two numbers are latitude/longitude and point to Copley Square and the Trinity Church, it could be a reference to the movie “National Treasure,” in which the treasure was beneath Trinity Church.

Now, it was mentioned that the third number could be a Dewey Decimal system number and that the Boston Public Library is near Copley Square. 342 in the Dewey Decimal system is constitutional and administrative law, strengthening the connection to “National Treasure.” However, it was also stated that the Boston Public Library uses the Library of Congress system (I can’t find that stated on wiki, but I’ll take your word for it).

Searching “national treasure” on Wikipedia yielded a page about national treasures instead of the movie. Listed was a song called “Truckin’” by the Grateful Dead, which is considered by the Library of Congress to be a national treasure.

The chorus of “Truckin’” runs like this:

Sometimes the light's all shining on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me
What a long strange trip it's been

(Yes, I know this is entirely crazy. I just had fun linking it all together, and it’s a really odd set of connections.)

Link to lyrics for “Truckin’”
Link to the wiki page on national treasures in general.
Link to the wiki page on “National Treasure” the movie.

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by StephLee

How’s this for a stretch:
The game (or game name) involves something along the lines of “Truckin’” or “Grateful Dead.”

Steph-- Dave's facebok status is:

Dave Lavery
is Truckin' . . . (where is Jerry Garcia when you need him?)

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by Libby K

Steph-- Dave's facebok status is:

Dave Lavery
is Truckin' . . . (where is Jerry Garcia when you need him?)

It says he changed it AFTER I posted - is he just messing with us??

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by charmed862

Again robots playing football?
Maybe, but i remember reading in a thread not too long ago, about someone seeing a truck filled with footballs outside FIRST. I don't know if this was 100% true but maybe.... We would have to shoot footballs through the obelisks, into a globe shaped bin and if you fill the entire bin you get bonus points???? I'm not sure really where I was going with this, but it seemed logical at the time of thought.

The Patriots are sweeping the NFL...

[Guy Davidson]

Is it possible Dave read the post and then changed his status? Becuase otherwise, this would be the craziest connection I have ever seen to have some form of real 'evidence'. That would be quite amazing.

F
Infra
Red
Sensor
T

anyone got any ideas as to what goes in the F or the T?

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by sumadin

Is it possible Dave read the post and then changed his status? Becuase otherwise, this would be the craziest connection I have ever seen to have some form of real 'evidence'. That would be quite amazing.

He changed his status about 5 minutes after I posted. It's more likely than not that he read the post first, then changed it.

[sishu7]

I am SO impressed by all these crazy connections! Creative thinking for sure.

I like the idea about two hints being new... and therefore there being two of something else (that there's usually only 1 of) in the game.

I also like the square, circle, triangle connection and the "T" idea.

I think we have not yet figured out the real meaning of the last set of numbers, though I like the idea that in that many hours, a third hint will come (coming to us the night before kickoff - in my time zone, anyway).