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

[Roger]

So (not having gone thru the middle 20-something pages of suggestions) -- has anyone actually gone to Copley Square and looked for themselves to see if anything is there? For all we know the clue is there. (Or do I have to do it Wednesday morning on my way to work?)
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[BanksKid]

there is no way that these are values fo latitiude and longitude else it would be formatted as thus, / you dont have a third part so that third value kills off that idea. gentleman this game has nothing to do with boston (in reference to the lat..lon. theory) you have all wasted far to muck time on this matter wen need to look at these as values for the board....not just rest values but operating values ie when it is hooked up correclty.

once again this is not latt and lon
unless there is a mmagic third value that represents elevation which ther eis not

[ergodezign]

I hope they make them with LEDs so they have little eyes that light up...

from Dave hex bug post....hmmmm....LED's.....

[Kyle O'Don]

once again this is not latt and lon

Out if the near infinite number of lat/long coordinates, I find it hard to believe that two numbers with 9 significant figures just happens to land us in a plaza of a large city.

Besides, compared to last years hint this one is pretty strait forward.

[BanksKid]

yeah lets pretend that post never happened...things have just been uber stressfull for me these last two days, personal reasons, but i should have never lashed out at my fellow roboteers like that and for this i am truely sorry.

i hope you will accept this as a formal appology

Ethan Banks

[JoeXIII'007]

Originally Posted by Kyle O'Don

Besides, compared to last years hint this one is pretty strait forward.

*cough* XKCD #240, Dave's Signature about things not conforming to our expectations... I dunno, I could be just paranoid, but whenever we have reached this point, we usually arrive at kick-off dead wrong about the entire concept (darn that circle with the #5... it should have been 8!).

At least with the Paul Revere thing we are really thinking outside the box thinking outside the box (yes, times 2, if we have to we will go 3 boxes).

All that said, we could be right on the nose and Dave/Anybody else could be scheming to divert our attention.

-Joe

Edit: There are far too many connections between where the first two numbers point to on GPS and where the third number points to from there (Copley Square and Paul Revere's Residence respectively). Then again, there is what I have said above... and the circuitrunner could be right... shall we look into other possible meaning for these numbers... somehow, knowing this request has been made before to no result???

[njamietech]

Originally Posted by JoeXIII'007

All that said, we could be right on the nose and Dave/Anybody else could be scheming to divert our attention.

Resist the temptation!!!!!!!!!!!

(as in resist losing focus)

[JaneYoung]

The game hints are hints. If they aren't solved or they are solved, there is still going to be a Kick off on January 5 that will reveal the game. Every year, there is an aha moment during the reveal, as students and mentors who have tried to figure out the clues, 'get it'. This year, there are lots of perspectives and suggestions but nothing is really wasted. There's more in these threads that just solving the clues. There is a common bond and there are opportunities to communicate and work together. 5 pages from now, we may be off on another tangent, thinking, puzzling, and communicating with each other. If you find yourself losing your temper or your humor, don't post until you've taken a break and regained your humor and perspective. These are hints. Nothing more, nothing less.

.02

P.S. My daughter just put in - Remember The Titans - I'm going to watch it.

[StephLee]

I had a fun and most likely useless idea strike me earlier:

Following the Paul Revere line of thinking, what if "One if by land, two if by sea" refers to the number of clues?

One if by land = previous years when we had a land game
Two if by sea = WATER GAME!!

(Yes, I'm kidding. I had a good laugh at myself.)

I really do think the fact that we've been pointed to Paul Revere and his famous saying in the year we get two clues instead of one points to something, but I'm not sure what it is. Any ideas?

[1086VEX]

^^ thats it!!!!!^^ hahaha...

maybe the saying is refering to some sort of remote siginal that'll be sent out to our bots during the game, which would link our new sensor into all of this...

[Elgin Clock]

If we're going to encompass the whole city of Boston into the clue, and throw in Paul Revere, I'm going to throw in the link to The Beastie Boys (because the sang a song named Paul Revere) and guess that they are going to be playing the Wrap Party @ The Championship Event!! YAY!!!!

Or maybe our game piece is like Legends of The Hidden Temple style, and going to be a statue... like a Brass Monkey... That funky monkey!!
(And Monkey's like Bananas, just like Dave!! woooooooo!!!!!

Or wait, let's go even further off tangent, and say that Beastie Boys begins with a BB, so the game is going to begin with B__ B__ as well.

Welcome to the 2008 FIRST Robotics challenge, BRAIN BOGGLE!!!
Woooo Hoooo!!!

Oh wait, our brains are already boggled enough with the clues.
That can't be the name of the game too!!!

Or can it??
DUN DUN DUN!!!!


To be continued...

[GBIT]

Haha that was great. Anyway me being local to boston i would love for it to involve boston, but seeing FIRST is a international org. im doubting that they would focus on one city.


anyway i know that some one commented on this being possibly involving the field elements.


or....

possibly this was put out by FIRST just to torment us all......who knows!!

[T3_1565]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

If we're going to encompass the whole city of Boston into the clue, and throw in Paul Revere, I'm going to throw in the link to The Beastie Boys (because the sang a song named Paul Revere) and guess that they are going to be playing the Wrap Party @ The Championship Event!! YAY!!!!

Or maybe our game piece is like Legends of The Hidden Temple style, and going to be a statue... like a Brass Monkey... That funky monkey!!
(And Monkey's like Bananas, just like Dave!! woooooooo!!!!!

Or wait, let's go even further off tangent, and say that Beastie Boys begins with a BB, so the game is going to begin with B__ B__ as well.

Welcome to the 2008 FIRST Robotics challenge, BRAIN BOGGLE!!!
Woooo Hoooo!!!

Oh wait, our brains are already boggled enough with the clues.
That can't be the name of the game too!!!

Or can it??
DUN DUN DUN!!!!


To be continued...

So Elgin Clock is down for the count! How many more victims will this acursed hint claim?? Tune in Tommorrow to find out!!

[DonRotolo]

If Elgin's going to invoke the Beastie Boys, then those of MY generation* will invoke Paul Revere and the Raiders.

Don

*No relation to The Who.

[burkey_turkey]

Sorry if this is redundant, i just finished page 6, but i think there is a significance in the number of decimal places. There are 8 sig figs in the first two, but 9 in the last number. all of them have 6 digits after the decimal, so that seems to be important. six... six total robots again? not much of a hint. I just think that the precision of the numbers is important somehow...