George Boole
publication date: Thursday, August 18, 2011 (part of Summer 2011)
category: Science
clue: 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100101 00100000 01101111 01110010 00100000 01100110 01100001 01101100 01110011 01100101 00111111
explanation: The clue reads "true or false?" when decoded from binary. Boole invented Boolean algebra, a system of binary logic which later led to programming logic. In computer science, a "Boolean" value is either true or false. more…
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, Justin Woods, Joanna Woods, Mike Rothstein, Steve Dunn, and Ryan Dunn
trivia: This tournament goo was accidentally revealed to some players without activation, forcing Scott to remove it from the tournament and reset outcomes so far that day.

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