Game Hint #2 Prediction

[whlspacedude]

OK, so here is how this works.
Reply with...

1. Date and time at which you think game hint # 2 will come out.
2. What you think the new hint will be. (format (picture, poem, text etc), content (what is in the picture/text))

I will declare a winner upon clue disclosure from F.I.R.S.T.


Here is my Prediction

1. Saturday December 13, 2008 : 10 Pm
2. Picture, Different Fish

[Travis Hoffman]

OK, so here is how this works.
Reply with...

1. Date and time at which you think game hint # 2 will come out.
2. What you think the new hint will be. (format (picture, poem, text etc), content (what is in the picture/text))

I will declare a winner upon clue disclosure from F.I.R.S.T.



1. 1/2/09 11:59 PM
2. Dave Lavery Interpretive Dance triggered by extreme emotional stress over trying to finish the game animation. Fish Ballet.

[Schnabel]

I guess Saturday January 4th, about 8:30AM. It will come in many forms, the two major ones will be a webcast and a manual.

[GaryVoshol]

I guess Saturday January 4th ...Of what year?

[vivek16]

Of what year?

:yikes:

He must know something we don't!

*starts analyzing speeches from previous years' kickoffs*

-Vivek

[Herodotus]

Predictions for the game hint? Wait... seriously? Were really doing this?

[ttldomination]

1. Never
2. Nothing

No more game hints.

[daltore]

I think last year they just ran with it because they wanted to give a real game hint as well as shipping out all of the IR boards. Then they tacked on another hint to make an even 3. So I'll go with:

1) Mid-morning January 3rd,
2) A series of public events.

[anthonyttu]

why would the game hint #2 come out after the kick off?

[ATannahill]

Dean did mention Overdrive in his speech this year, that may be repeated this year.

[lingomaniac88]

We're speculating about a game hint that hasn't even been released yet. Now that's just sad. -_-

[EricH]

why would the game hint #2 come out after the kick off?
"What, behind the rabbit?"
"No. It is the rabbit."

Any questions?

[skimoose]

1. 12/24/2008 5:00PM EST
2. Picture of Dave holding tartar sauce.

2009 Game Name "Filet O'FIRST" ;)

[bobwrit]

1. 12/15/08
2. A picture of a fish tank(:p)

[Bruce_Almighty]

Dec. 25 this year
picture of water

[Dragonos]

1. 12/17/08
2. A picture Asteroid

[joshy1323]

1) december 25 2008
2) a picture of santa eating fish

[darkember]

december 24
Picture of a fish on the moon.

[Tom I]

1. Friday, December 19th, 10:00am.
2. A Bird...

...the third one will be a land animal... aka they're just trying to mess with us!! haha!

[T3H_K3YM45T3R]

1) 12/12/08 @ 11:32 am (Eastern time)
2) a picture of Dave's other car with a red herring photoshop'd in front of it

[martin417]

"What, behind the rabbit?"
"No. It is the rabbit."

Any questions?

Well, that's no ordinary rabbit!
That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!

No, it's just a fish. doesn't mean anything, move along.

[Optimogdor]

They won't give out more hints until the competitons. They are introducing a surprise factor to see how well we really are a designing! The hint? A flamethrower!

[Nin_estarSaerah]

December 25th.
a live goldfish mailed to every team.

[DMetalKong]

January 15th, 2008, 1:23:00 EST

An inverted picture of a scene from The Chronicles of Narnia

[Herodotus]

Ok fine, if we are doing this anyways I'll put in my two cents.

Dunno when, but the next game clue will be a detailed description of both the game and field, and also several possible designs for robots to effectively compete in the game.

Everyone will still rip it to shreds to find the hidden meaning.

[koreabell]

DEC 12, 2008. Around 11:00 AM PST

Some text or a picture of plate

[Kiwi]

*starts analyzing speeches from previous years' kickoffs*

-Vivek

Remember the end of the Rack 'n Roll kickoff? Where it showed Dean and Woodie floating on a suspiciously waterlike surface using the Ringers like innertubes, as they denied any possibility of hints?

[AustinDpOwers89]

Dec 24th 11:59pm EST 2008

another fish with a santa hat on and a small out of focus blob in the lower left-hand corner...

[Koko Ed]

December 18th. 4pm.
A box of corn flake crumbs.

[keen101]

based on last year we will either get hint #2 6 day's after the first one. (12/11/08) or on the 21st of dec. I'm betting on the 11th personally, but it might be as late as the 21st.

I think it will be a closeup image of something used on the field. In the game with the rings it was a close up image of the rack and a ring.

[Taylor]

Time: 6a EST
Date: 12/14/2008
Hint: The triangle-square-circle FIRST logo, made entirely of dial calipers and protractors.

[Tetraman]

I think CD is more obsessed with hints then they are of the actual game.

[Elgin Clock]

By predicting the next hint (if there is one) in a public forum, does one not create a bias as to when the next hint will be released??? :ahh:

But then again... the GDC is way too smart to be fooled by that one, aren't they? :cool:

None-the-less, my guess:

Hint 2: A poem, limerick, rhyme, & or just a random grouping of words, not so much a "famous" quote, but one that will become infamous by the time the new game rolls around within the FIRST community.

Date: 12/19/2008
(We got a hint on the first quarter phase of the moon (12/5), why not the last?)

[johnr]

Someone guessed my guesses. Guess i'll be more specific.
12-11-08--4:00 pm
osprey

[dvancleve]

1. New Year's Eve, 11:59 P.M.
2. Another fish.

[banannaman20]

honestly there was 4
ir board
random numbers
hurtle tetra....
and when dean camen gave his speech he said "overdrive"

[Elgin Clock]

honestly there was 4
ir board
random numbers
hurtle tetra....
and when dean camen gave his speech he said "overdrive"

5 if you want to count the ever lasting constant in all this craziness... The image they show behind the Suppliers when they announce them at Kickoff.

Take a look at Kickoff vids of years gone by. You'll see what I mean. (I even posted my own riddle about that myself a few years back when I noticed that subtle fact)
I was at Kickoff in NH this year (2008), & was thrown for a loop seeing the engine in the background. No clue what that referenced.
It was pretty nice, & better than floating spheres which would have been the all too obvious choice.

[Starke]

Date: December 25th, 2008
Time: 12:00 PM
Picture: The same picture (http://usfirst.org/community/frc/content.aspx?id=11310)....

[384 huband44]

Thursday 12/11/08 3PM
A picture of something that has many different charecteristic/possibilities of what the hint means.

[ReapersRule]

12/11/08


A shark. (look in the background of the first hint. There's a silhouette of a shark)

[Katie_UPS]

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FIRST HINT.

(Seeing as how everyone is so obsessed with the words that were on the other side of the page)

[Justin Montois]

12-15-08
2:37 PM
Text form. Three lines, very cryptic.(Ex. Five bots tangling in pasta)

[Sam2197]

im thinking the next hint will be about what we are playing on... ICE.

[NorviewsVeteran]

that makes me feel so much better

[Stephen of REX]

12-12-08
7:15 PM
Some false lead thought up on CD (IE a picture of the moon)

[nevereverregret]

I absolutely LOVE how we just got the first hint and we are already talking about hint 2!!!!! :P

[DJWattsALot]

I think that the next clue will,
1) come out on 1/2/09 at 4 am EST
2) it will include every wrong guess suggested on CD with the words "your wrong" scrambled up in the background

[coalhot]

1. sometime after Christmas, but before the kickoff...
2. a robot that looks like a fish...why? because its a really fishy clue...
:confused:

[xnaut]

1. - December 10 at 9 pm - (when i check the forums last)
2. - picture of air misinterpreted as the background :)

[Zflash]

The Following is From Bill's Blog...Who won!

Thursday, December 11, 2008
Game Hint # 2

Good Morning Teams,

Take your machine out of the shop on Colorado in Paramount;
stop by and get connected on Central in Phoenix;
drive by and make a pickup on Minnetonka in Minnetonka;
then head to the field on Evergreen in Dover.

23 Days until Kickoff
See you then


Posted by Bill at 7:02 AM 0 comments

[whlspacedude]

OK and now for the winners..
No one got both the date and the content right so i just went by the date first.

Winners.
In order of posting.

keen101
Elgin Clock (topic correct but not the date)
johnr
384 huband44
ReapersRule

Congratulations!!!