CAMBRIDGE TEA PARTY
by Mike Selinker, Greg Lohman, Dan Katz, Jonathan Sheffi, and Jenn Braun
Solution: HOTEL AT MIT
The hunt for the rebels' tea begins at a restaurant hinted by the man who played Ferrari in Casablanca. That's Sydney Greenstreet, and at the corner of Sidney Street and Green Street in Cambridge is the Hotel@MIT, where you'll find Sidney's Grille.
At Sidney's, players receive a handout which shows the letter "T" in the logos of eight food establishments shown on the map. Finding these places on Massachusetts Avenue and Main Street produces eight series of digits from the locations. The digits are a span of four consecutive numbers (e.g., 0553-0556) between 0001 and 7500. These indicate positions in the table of 7500 digits of pi given on the handout. Finding those positions gives eight four-digit numbers.
| Tavern on the Square (730 Mass Ave) | 0553-0556 | 9437 | WHER |
| Royal East (792 Main St.) | 0086-0089 | 3482 | EITA |
| Toscanini's (899 Main St.) | 4016-4019 | 5578 | LLST |
| Central Kitchen (567 Mass Ave) | 5529-5532 | 2783 | ARTE |
| Salts (798 Main St.) | 3805-3808 | 3773 | DSPE |
| Harvest Cooperative Supermarket (581 Mass Ave) | 6466-6469 | 5527 | LLAS |
| Pu Pu Hot Pot (907 Main St.) | 3194-3197 | 9626 | YMBO |
| Thailand Café (302 Mass Ave) | 1751-1754 | 5688 | LOUT |
On a telephone keypad (suggested by the phrase "try phoning a friend"), you can spell out the instruction WHERE IT ALL STARTED SPELL A SYMBOL OUT. It all started at, with a spelled-out symbol, the HOTEL AT MIT.