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

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by 11Mort11

the gamewill probablly use globe shaped game pieces

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

Atlasphere like from the old 'American Gladiators' ?

Originally Posted by 11Mort11

that would be amazing

If that happens, I want credit.
From the 2007 Game Hint thread:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&postcount=707

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

If that happens, I want credit.
From the 2007 Game Hint thread:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&postcount=707

Absolutely. 100% credit (Blame ) would go to you.

And it would be great

[dr1008]

Originally Posted by EricH

Look, you guys, the answer is right in front of you. Triangles, circles, in a square, and Trinity Church. What one object is a combination of all of the first three elements, and also shows each individually (like the Trinity, for Christians, almost)?

A TRAFFIC CONE!

I think the game piece is a traffic cone. Lay out an obstacle course. Bonus points for beating it in the end-of game automode.

i think this is the best theory i have heard, i gotta give you props, i beleive this will happen.

[steveg]

Originally Posted by Vaillancourt88

Are we thinking in the right "sphere"? What about Right Ascension, Declination, Date....It would give the position of some celestial object, and explain the 3rd number, and Dave Lavery is a NASA guy...anyone have a starmapping program handy?

That was something I actually thought of, so a couple days ago I fired up Stellarium to check. I tried observing using using equatorial coordinates, as well as from both Manchester, NH and Copley Sqaure, on both December 7th, 1900 and December 8th, 2007 at 5:48:41AM.

While there are some celestial bodies nearby, none are at the coordinates with the precision specified, and those that are close don't have any remarkable names.

Converting from degrees to hours, minutes, and seconds is easy.

Take the number, if it's negative, add it to 360. For example -71.076072 becomes 288.9239. Divide by 15 to get the hours. Take the fractional part, then multiply it by 60 to get minutes. Take the fractional part of that, and again multiply it by 60 to get seconds. So -71.078072 becomes 19hr5min41.724sec

[Elgin Clock]

Nice view & some good info:

http://books.google.com/books?id=dmF...s95kU#PPA50,M1



More random Copley Plaza facts.
They filmed portions of the movie The Pink Panther 2 there on September 19th of this year.
http://picasaweb.google.com/pixiecakes/OnTheSet

And... uh oh.. one more thing before I go.

The Hancock Tower was designed by the architect I. M. Pei.
The same I. M. Pei some people guessed about back in '05 when trying to guess the clue that year.
Connections to previous years??? Ahhh!!!! My head a-splode!
Can this mean that our guesses for clues can be used in the future?
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&postcount=561

We better be careful what we wish for in these posts from now on.

[MiniNerd24]

Okay I'm new to this guys but here it is
the first two numbers in the hint as we have all concluded are GPS coordinates
but I think I found out the last number!
Go to the FIRSTwiki and search 342.24.20.26 .
Now this seems like a dead end to me because it is an account for someone who apparently lives here : http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/ip-...=75.21.123.237
And anyway You guys are probably smarter than me cause would never have found out or thought of all of these ideas

[gregb1x]

Hey All!

[Warren Boudreau]

It's almost embarrasing to be posting my idea on the 30th page of this thread. Don't you people sleep?

Anyway, my guess is that the game will revolve around positioning squares (Copley Square reference) between obelisks (directional reference to third number).

A derivation would be that the squares are really cubes of different colors (red, blue, green, orange). Four pairs of obelisks will border goals of four colors. The trick will be autonomously place the squares in the correctly colored goals. Or, better yet, the colored squares can only be scored when the correctly colored light (or IR signal) is active.

[11Mort11]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

If that happens, I want credit.
From the 2007 Game Hint thread:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&postcount=707

good call

American Gladiator meets First robotics
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[MiniNerd24]

Ok I haven't read all of the posts here but I was wondering, does anyone have an idea about how this game hint ties in with the first hint after all it was our first hint.

P.S. American Gladiator Robots amazing!

[DAN1504]

Originally Posted by MiniNerd24

Now this seems like a dead end to me because it is an account for someone who apparently lives here : http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/ip-...=75.21.123.237
And anyway You guys are probably smarter than me cause would never have found out or thought of all of these ideas

i noticed that one of the surrounding streets is Trinity Street. nice connection, i would never have thought of an ip address.

[MiniNerd24]

Well thank you but I found it by complete accident

[BanksKid]

Originally Posted by meaubry

The whole game is never totally revealed in these "hints" - only obscure parts are.

The hard work has been accomplished - lat & longit, takes us to Copley Square in Boston, where atop the Hancock building is a beacon. Which has the capability of emitting 4 outputs - red solid, red flashing, blue solid, blue flashing.

These are the standard FIRST colors, and we now have included in the kit, an IR board with 4 selections on it. 4 choices and 4 beacon outputs, hmmm...

Perhaps, one part of the game will be that each human player will select from the 4 IR choices mentioned earlier, and that is what will establish your desired game parameters (scoring location, value, match length of time, starting or ending location, alliance partner choice, something that would influence the outcome, ect).

Human player interaction using the IR - its "in their hands".

i would just like to get this out there but what if the IR board had nothing to do with game play and instead was just a ridulosely(?) expensive hint???
-probubly not

but it does sound a little feaky and conspiratorial

HOORAY CONSPIRICY!!!!

[bfvaneyck]

Teams,

Has anyone, knowing Dave L's association with the Mars Rover program, tried mapping these coordinates on Mars?

[bfvaneyck]

Whoa! It's been over 20 minutes since I posted and still NO responses. Maybe all that caffine has lost it's effectiveness?