We thought that the numbers on the bag might have something to do with ASCII, so I brought out my ASCII converter. However, they were not. The mysterious sheet of paper had told us, ACID (made up of 3's) and two types BASES (made up of 2's). Did we have to make some sort of chemical reaction?

Deciphering some of the numbers into binary gave some hope for conversion into the A=1, B=2, Z=26 scale. However, some of the numbers yielded a result much larger than 26. So, we tried base 3 for these. Since 'acids' was made up of 3's on the clue-sheet, we solved the number on the front in base 3, and for bases, we solved the number in base 2.

Bag 1: 11, acid, convert into base 3, yielding D
Bag 2: 10001, base, convert into base 2, yielding R
Bag 3: 102, acid, convert into base 3, yielding E
Bag 4: 11001, base, convert into base 2, yielding Y
Bag 5: 101, base, convert into base 2, yielding E
Bag 6: 122, acid, convert into base 3, yielding R.

Excitedly, we called Game Control to see if the Dreyer's Factory was our next destination. It was.

Our groups agreed that since we had worked on the clue together, we should go the Dreyer's factory together, and then split up. Computer genius Peter Deng, from Jon's team, looked up Dreyer's on his laptop, and saw that there was a factory in Union City, just south of Hayward. We had no idea how to get there, but thankfully, his computer gave step-by-step instructions on how to get there.

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