Re: 2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!
 

Here's my interpretation:

Pi: Round Frisbee.

A rose kissed / singer great:The first part and the first half the second refer to the song, performed by Seal. The second half of the second part (great) combines with the first to make "great seal", aka one of the Great seals of the USA, which has a pyramid on it.

A dinner missed: The fact a Frisbee also works as a makeshift plate.

Holding weight: Hanging/climbing off the pyramind.

Re: 2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!
 

Something possible:

In the Rick Astley hint

It wasn't a pushpin
It was a frisbee

Re: 2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!
 

If you converted the entire hint into ASCII and then converted relevant stuff from Chinese to English, you ended up with a Pyramid character, "House of Dun" and something related to pigeons/birds (Clay pigeons? Frisbees?). This might have been partially explored on page 2.

I'm certainly looking forward to everyone's creative ideas this year!
:]

Re: 2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!
 

Like Frank wrote, it WAS a really good hint.

Threes all over the place - triangles (pyramids?)
Then a nice crypto (kissed by a rose, etc.)
Then a binary pyramid (here)

This one was several layers deep, someone spent a LOT of time on this (and should now get back to work ;) )

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I think I heard one of our mentors did something with GPS coordinates and the hint, and got the Great Pyramids. :eek:

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Yes! There IS more to that mega-anagram (rearrange letters ... message hiding ...): At least for line 1 of the poem: A ROSE, KISSED becomes SEE DISK SOAR. I'll leave the rest to anyone who may be interested - but, we've got a 'bot to build! (Looks like it'll be a fun game.)

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Hey guys, going out on a limb here but average FIRST, a FIRST twitter account, just said that this years game was baseball. Maybe the "3" means 3 bases?

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Not a verified Twitter account = Not an actual game hint

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Note to everyone: this thread is a year old and is NOT the current game hint anymore.

Since a spammer replied here and sent this thread back to the portal, I'm closing this thread to avoid any later confusion with whatever 2014 brings.