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

[MiniNerd24]

This is off topic but has anyone noticed that the games objectives sort of rotate? ( This is just a stretch) e.g. 1995 Ramp 'n Roll 2007 Rack 'n Roll
1994 Tower Power 2003 Stack Attack

see. in 1994 towers 2003 more towers (stacking towers of game pieces)

this is the site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRST#F...cs_Competition

I also noticed that (Why didn't we think of it?! ) there was a polygon and T-shaped field mentioned for some of the games.
Any ideas?

[MiniNerd24]

If you zoom out a few notches, you'll see that all those lines make up (what appears to be) one of those giant dry riverbeds on Mars. - artdutra04
(Don't know how to quote)

The ground looks green in his pic. So maybe that's what they meant in the first clue and seeing Montana's green heights It sorta makes sense right?

[Chief Samwize]

Originally Posted by Libby K

WHen I did that, it showed part of the image, with a whole bunch of thick gray lines.

My immediate thought was, "Zoom out. Maybe it's a message".

It's nothing, but I figured it would have been

Nah nah nah nah nah!!!

-dave



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I did the exact same thing when I first saw it and then found it was nothing so I didn't mention it but I know exactly how you felt.

-Sam

[B.Collette]

Not sure if anybody did this yet, but I put the first number in to yahoo search and it came up with a Bloglines search for a company called Nanosolar (www.nanosolar.com).

The search result on Bloglines returned ALL THREE numbers we were given by FIRST.

Any idea how this can go with the game? Maybe something with the IR panel?

/brian

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by B.Collette

Not sure if anybody did this yet, but I put the first number in to yahoo search and it came up with a Bloglines search for a company called Nanosolar (www.nanosolar.com).
The search result on Bloglines returned ALL THREE numbers we were given by FIRST.
Any idea how this can go with the game? Maybe something with the IR panel?
/brian

It's just a stream of current blogs. The two seperate blog entries of Nanosolar's release about the $1 per kw/h of electricity it's new panel can produce & someone's totally unrelated blog about the clue just happen to be on the same page.
No connection there. Sorry.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Vaillancourt88

Maybe if we construct a large wooden badger.....

Badger? We ain't got no Badgers... We don' need no stinkin' Badgers...

Originally Posted by MiniNerd24

But I think I found out the last number!
Go to the FIRSTwiki and search 342.24.20.26

...Except that IP addresses are limited to the range 0 to 255. 342 cannot be an IP address.

Originally Posted by Vince lau

what if the 42.349905 is like the distance of Mars from Earth in million miles.

Not even close.


I change my vote to squares that need to be maneuvered between obelisks.
(or is that obelisks between squares )
Don

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[B.Collette]

We did just have another idea:

Trinity Church is in Copley Square, and it's powered by geothermal energy. Could the last number 342.242026 be a temperature of some kind?

The conversions were in an attachment here

/brian

[MiniNerd24]

Yeah I think I'll go with the squares and obelisks too.

[Frinkahedron]

Somewhere, Dave is sitting around with his shades all at how far off we all probably are.

All these do is make my hype exponentially increase prior to build season, which isn't a bad thing

[DAN1504]

has anyone that went to Copley Square, taken any pictures?

[Mr_I]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

So it's an EX-water game!

And we ALL know that "EX" marks the spot!

(Sorry, I had to do that for all of my students.)

[sishu7]

Originally Posted by ervtech

or it could be something that is just flying under everybodys radar because i dont think that the people from FIRST and NASA would just hand us the game on a silver platter.

UM... all this talk about answers being too obvious...

If it was obvious, we would have it figured out!!!

(Unless we want to do Dave's Princess Bride type logic puzzle thing, in which case it is obvious that it would not be obvious but it still must be obvious enough to be labeled obvious and therefore the most likely thing is the least obvious thing that was obvious enough for us to come up with... unless it was obvious that it would be obvious that it would not be obvious, in which case it really should be obvious.)

[MiniNerd24]

Originally Posted by sishu7

UM... all this talk about answers being too obvious...

If it was obvious, we would have it figured out!!!

(Unless we want to do Dave's Princess Bride type logic puzzle thing, in which case it is obvious that it would not be obvious but it still must be obvious enough to be labeled obvious and therefore the most likely thing is the least obvious thing that was obvious enough for us to come up with... unless it was obvious that it would be obvious that it would not be obvious, in which case it really should be obvious.)

LOL yeah and to be honest this thread has around 30 people in it who can't figure this out! Ironic.

[Doug Adams]

Looking on Wikipedia, John Singleton Copley not only painted Paul Revere, he also painted "The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782". I seem do remember Dave, Woody and Dean ending the kickoff last year in some floats on water? Dave was slapping the water saying something like "what can we do for next year..."

Maybe there'll be 4 mobile targets each with their own IR beacon and frequency. Different frequencies for different point values.

[MiniNerd24]

Ya know, all of our observations, guesses, and ideas all seem to eventually bring up water. And if you think about it wouldn't that be a cool if there was an event for making some kind of submersible? It would probably cost more to do though. Also what, wait I just thought of another. The first clue said something about noodles and if it is pool noodles then it could be another reference to water. If anyone thinks of another kind of water reference let me know.

(You might want to use both clues)