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

[Howman]

If 342.242026 refers to the heading, then it seems to point you right at the fountain. So maybe the game has something to do with water?

However, because of the number of sig digits, it may be a heading to something much further away or something near but quite small.

[ALIBI]

Originally Posted by Howman

If 342.242026 refers to the heading, then it seems to point you right at the fountain. So maybe the game has something to do with water?

However, because of the number of sig digits, it may be a heading to something much further away or something near but quite small.

A fountain full of tetra? GO FISH!

[Roger]

Originally Posted by Anne_droid

I'm not sure what the Smoot might have to do with the Game Hint...

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It's dlavery's way of getting everyone off the subject when we get too close to the correct answer to the Hint.

Wikipedia says "the bridge's length was measured to be 364.4 smoots plus or minus one ear, with the 'plus or minus' intended to express uncertainty of measurement", which does lend credence to dave's version of the events. Why .4 plus an ear? Wouldn't 364 plus a leg be better? But why would two sources closer to the event omit this?

Yet reading Lambda Chi's webpage a little more may reveal more of the truth. Oliver Smoot himself says "Luckily ... we were cold sober" when a police van came upon them. But this was a fraternity pledge hack in 1958; a later quote from a younger frat brother says "later the story came out as 'he was stiff as a board' from earlier festivities at the bar!" I suspect the tolerance would be a bit more than "plus or minus one ear."

[batterybox]

Here is what I am thinking so far...

Using Google Earth, the coordinates 42.349905, -71.076072 brought me to Copley Square in Boston.
Approximately 342 smoots away from that point is the Prudential Tower.
The Prudential Tower has a little message system using the red and blue lights on top of the tower.

Steady Blue, Clear View
Flashing Blue, Clouds are Due
Steady Red, Rain Ahead
Flashing Red, Snow Instead

IR board using different signals to perform different tasks..? That's all I got.

[Capt. Quirk]

If Copley Square really is a clue, then maybe the "Square" is the real clue.

[batterybox]

Originally Posted by Capt. Quirk

If Copley Square really is the clue, then maybe the "Square" is the real clue.

Where is the fun in that....

[Justin Montois]

I didn't read every post so Sorry if this was already mentioned but Copley Square is very close to "Co-Play Square"

[Capt. Quirk]

Woodie's game hint

"Just be careful about the stock market, with jello, gerbils, and K'nex blocks."

mentions "Squares", the stock market could be a stack that goes up & down.

When I think of Gerbils, Desert Rats, Rodents or Mouse (Mice) come to mind and may indicate a change in OI before we thought.

Or possibly the squares are going to be loaded on goals that move around the playing field (cage) like gerbils in a cage? Mobile goals may be like the "stock market, with jello" if the playing pieces are not stable.

[Nightfall831]

dunno if anyone has said this or not, but if your idea for what the third number is gets you a number that is "close" to the third number....its probably wrong...i don't think that they would give us a number to nine signifigant figures if they wanted us to be "close"...just a thought...

[Scott Carpman]

This is post 666 in this thread.

How devlishly confusing these hints are....

[alex1699]

Originally Posted by Capt. Quirk

If Copley Square really is a clue, then maybe the "Square" is the real clue.

i just thought of posting that.