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They have already hinted at the size of the chasis being larger than last year with the release of the size of the box the KOP Drive comes in. Last years box was 30inches long this years is 33in(33in>30in)

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So? thats simply the box it comes in, not the size of the pieces. If anything, we can say how the box is two pounds lighter.

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Also, across the street from the post office in Rockford (61126/1963 into google maps), there is a building with a company called "Security First" on Mariposa drive. Put Mariposa into Wikipedia, and there is a Canadian figure skating school that goes by that name...coincidence? I'm calling a figure skating game..or something related. Like hockey.

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I have further information that reinforces this theory!

The second pair of numbers, 61126/1963, shows a location near Rockford, Illinois when put into Google Maps. Immediately next to this location is a road called Mariposa Drive. Mariposa is also the name of a world renowned skating school! http://www.skatemariposa.com I'm not sure what this means, but it is very interesting.

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Not sure if everyone saw this, however it seems waaaay to obvious to ignore. If this was true, I believe that many of the triangle observations with the water bottles (btw one is not lifted they are just separated by a vent of some sort), the coordinates with the triangle, and the staircase cad picture seem like extremely plausible guesses and seem as though they can all be linked together. I am also interested with the 25% weight reduction sign as that seems to be way to obvious to ignore also.

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If it says that there are no game hints in the photo...why are we thinking that there are game hints in the photo?

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Why would they say there are no game clues in one specific photo?

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Just a request, but would anybody who posts "somebody might have seen this already" style, messages involving 3, or messages involving triangles please at the very least skim the first 34 pages of this thread?

On another note, there are no game hints in THAT photo, but maybe there are in the others? That fits with the appearance of a staircase that was posted earlier...

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i like how i have this page and my scholarship essay page open......should probably actually start them....nah they're not due till March. :D :p

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i would agree with this, it can simply be GDC saying "hey don't bother with this photo, go look at the others we posted"

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Because they knew people would over analyze it since it has to do with Kickoff.

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Like Dean Kamen, Sir James Dyson is an inventor (cyclone vacuum cleaners & bladeless fans), entrepreneur & philanthropist. Maybe Dean did some of his legendary persuading & got James to donate "Air Multiplier" fans to the Kit of Parts? Check out this fun video.

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This isn't battlebots this is FRC FIRST no war here. Hope there will never be a full out battlebots. I hate it when the people at my school whenever I tell them I do FIRST robotics team competition and they assume they I do battlebots :mad: I say "no" and then they say that our competition is not cool.

Anyways based on knowledge of past FRC games just drop the idea there is going to be a war game.

The most of generation of students in FIRST now probably will be creating robots for war though, at least that is my prediction. But you know what military technology pretty much always makes it way into civilian life for peaceful purposes. So I guess good can come from it. Like the Xb-47
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B">Like the X-47b (click me)</a>. The x-47b was the first unmanned aircraft to land on the a aircraft carrier, anyways that technology will probably make it's way into self-driving cars. Anyways you get my point.

But I hope it is not Battlebots. In my opinion FIRST FRC is more challenging than Battlebots because Battlebots are basically the same every year (just destroying the other robot) while FRC robots change every year and there is a tough task every year and only have 6 weeks to build the robot.

Sorry for any typos on a mobile.

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Running with your theory here... I tried out "15806 wind farm" in the googley, and there are some results, the most interesting ones perhaps: 1) http://www.thewindpower.net/develope...rgiequelle.php shows 15806 as the postal code for Energiequelle's address. 2) U-15806 as the case number in MI about a "long-term renewable energy contract between Detroit Edison Company and Tuscola Bay Wind, LLC".

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The game probably won't relate to wind turbines specifically, but turbines rotate, which may hint to using a ball as a scoring object, or even a rotating goal.

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Hmm. While some might find it odd that some people think about baseball in all of this, it's not actually that far fetched. Let's consider the facts.

This game hint was posted by FRC Director Frank Merrick. Now if I asked someone in FRC what they think when they hear the name "Frank", they will likely think of our noble director. However if I were to poll the average passersby at a mall or on the street, the first "Frank" they think of is probably Frank Sinatra.

Frank Sinatra, as most know, had unprecedented, decades-long success as a solo artist and movie star beginning from the "swing era" after World War 2 until his death at the end of the 20th century. He was so talented and loved that calling him simply one of the best selling solo artists of all time only begins to describe him. That descriptor doesn't include his critically-acclaimed role in The Manchurian Candidate, or his founding of The Rat Pack, or being part of the lead cast in one of the most successful musical films of the era, Guys and Dolls. Simply put, Frank Sinatra is a New Jersey native who accomplished more in any given year of his life than in anyone else's entire lifetime, earning such accolades like being one of the earliest recipients of the Kennedy Center Honor in 1983, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom 2 years after that, and earning the Congressional Gold Medal after going over the hump of being eighty years old!

"But what does Frank Sinatra have to do with baseball?"

Well, Frank Sinatra shares the state of his birth with current Cincinnati Reds third baseman and all around totally awesome guy Todd Frazier. Todd Frazier is very proud of his New Jersey heritage, being a major contributor to cleanup after Hurricane Sandy and having exclusively Frank Sinatra songs play as his "walk up" music (my personal favorite he uses is "My Way, one of Sinatra's later hits). He is also a bit of a local legend, having once saved a fan of an opposing team choking in a restaurant with the Heimlich maneuver, hit a home run without having contact with the bat, and being the best friend of occasional bat boy and Cincinnati native Teddy Kremer (who also has Down Syndrome). There's even a fun story where Teddy asked Todd Frazier to go "hit a home run" for him before he went up to the on deck circle in a game last season, and Todd proceeded to scorch the ball into the moon Deck in right field of Great American Ballpark, which was a total babe Ruth moment everyone deserves to know about. He won the NL Rookie of The Year in 2012, awarded by the MLB Player's Association (but not from those wretched media scum who voted for the insidious Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals).

Before being a MLB slugger, Todd Frazier was the winning pitcher for his hometown of Toms River, New Jersey in the 1998 Little League World Series, in a game where he also scored a home run as the first hit of the game. He later won Big East Player of the Year while playing for Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. Suffice to say, he is a great baseball player and my favorite baseball player on my favorite baseball team, the Cincinnati Reds.

What does this have to do with the speculation of baseball being related to the 2014 game? Not a darn thing. But, I figured if you are sifting through hundreds of posts chock full of rampant, unchecked, possibly logic-free speculation, you might as well read up on two really cool people.

Happy Holidays!

Also, I need bout tree fiddy.

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tree fiddy?
loch-ness monster?
must be a water game

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Now this is first I've read of this thread. Now my reasearch AKA (over analyzing) is as follows.

61126/1963=Rockford Illinois>ups>Security FIRST=Rockford Illinois has Professional Hockey and Baseball teams there. The Rockford Icehogs & Rockford Aviators

8234/57= Weight limits reduced 25% effective Jan 1 to May 1st.= Pretty straightforward and has been discussed on CD enough.

62326> Colchester Illinois.
15806>Toques, Spain> toques translated means "to touch". In baseball you touch someone to get them out.

Personally I want hockey over baseball

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The first numbers are zip codes, to Vilnius Lithuania, Rockford IL, and Colchester, all have wind turbine farms. Right now the museums of Lithuania, has an energy and technology wing, which includes wind. In 1957 the museum was destroyed in the soviet war (as said by obaranow2015). The first numbers in the second set “61126” when flipped you get the “62116”.In the middle numbers (1963) there was a very famous futuristic series (Jetsons, in spanish “Supersonicos“) show. I searched up “1963 supersonicos” (i speak spanish so that is why i searched up Jetson in spanish ) in google and found a youtube video. You can see in the description a brief description in which says “Canal 11 en 1963” (english translation: Channel 11 in 1963). 1963 the zip codes were started (which is why it makes sense to get the locations from the first set) and was also the year in which the Jetson were first shown in channel 11. From the number “62116”, 62 represents the first year of the Jetsons in the TV, 11 represents the channel 11 in which the video we found on youtube was shown as well as the year in which this video was uploaded to youtube (2011), 6 represents the day in which the video was uploaded to youtube.

hypothesis: We are thinking of an air game in which the robot has to lunch some kind of object into some sort of hole with turbines which will push the object (idea from Kevin Thorp’s video and connection to the turbine from the first set of numbers).

*We are still working on finding the what the last set of numbers mean, suggestions help.*

LINKS:
Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=supe...ed=0CAYQ_AUoAA
Video from Kevin Thorp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WNcjkZ6d0w

from joanku, camilo86

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Alright, I wasn't going to post here but I found something interesting. If you go usfirst.org and look at the address of the loaded page it is http://www3.usfirst.org/. Is that 3 always there and if not, more 3's!!

Happy kickoff!

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It's just you. I get a www, both using my bookmark and using Google.

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Weird. i don't get the www3... what web browser are you using?

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This is what I get

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I see...I tried putting 4,5,6 instead of 3 and the results were:
3: works
4:doesn't work
5: works
6: works

I don't think it has to do with anything. But who knows...

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This seems pretty solid.

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Guys, if you're going to post on the thread, please read the thread! This was discussed on page 14:

::rtm::

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Quick update:

While reading another post by yarden.saa , I saw how the last clue can potentially connect to the idea of weight limit.

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I say the 25% weigh reduction signs is the most legit thing we have, the picture with the 3 water bottles is the other clue we should focus on.

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Im pretty sure those 3 bottles of water mean something...why 3! 3 is everywhere in FRC. 3 this, 3 that. My conclusion is 3 v.3 game just like in Ultimate Ascent and probably 3 game objects.

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If baseball is correct, we are somewhat overdue for a robot-robot interaction game (i.e Lunacy trailers, Rebound Rumble bridges), maybe you can touch another robot in a certain area to draw points/penalties?

This is a possibility for 3 theories, football, hockey, and baseball. In football, obviously, tackle, in hockey, bodychecking another player, and in baseball, touching someone with the game piece to get them out.

This also satisfies the capture the flag theory.

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I got the same thing using Chrome, even went to multiple pages to see if it changes. Then, for the cause, I opened up Internet Explorer :mad: to try it and it was the same thing.

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We've already gone over multiple times how any three non-linear points will give you a triangle. Also the studio picture is marked that it is not a hint, so you can take that suspiciously or possibly thank the GDC for making us not have to worry about that photo. Instead, look at the other pictures that have been posted.

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Again, there are 3 water bottles in the photo because there are 3 people who would want something to drink.

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I'm not trying to be negative, but I still don't think that's a valid lead. If the GDC had wanted to point us to that sign how could they have figured out that that search term would show that sign?

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They have ins with Google? And we all know Google rules everything on the web.

15806 = the NBA record for assists. Held by John Stockton of the Jazz. Could this signal a return of coopertition?

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I just want a racing game and baseball....hopefully short scoring with lower speeds so someone doesn't get serious head trama :eek: so maybe certain zones???

EDIT: trauma

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2 options:
The weight reduction isn't referring to the robot, its referring to the game piece - wiffle balls. Wind is important to this because as air flows through the wiffle ball, it impacts the flight path.

OR

People are looking at the wrong road sign for the 8234/57 on google streetview. Don't look at the weight reduction sign. Turn to the right, you will see a Junction sign. The second set of numbers, 61126/1963, also brings up a location in TX that just happens to be on Junction Hwy. What happens at a junction? Either 2 or more things become 1, or you are are forced to make a choice between which route you want to take.

So what are we going to do this year, Brain? The same thing we do every year, Pinky - try to have 3 robots combine to form one alliance, with each choosing a different task to complete a common goal. Also, coopertition points are revamped and back as both alliances come together at the end to form the FIRST logo using a tetra, a tube, and a bin

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Just thought I'd mention that last time the GDC posted a picture before the actual hint it really had very little to do with the next game. All that could be related is the line "never gonna let you down" to climbing from Rick's song. Everyone was so fixated on the pins and, nope, they were just the Pushpins the GDC had lying around.

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The website starting with www3 has nothing to do with the game. It is used all over the web. They all lead to the same place, your browser might take preference.

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They do have an "in". Sergey Brin has appeared at the CMP, and has recorded a testimonial to the importance of FIRST and the study of robotics.
Though the Japanese may be eating our lunch.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/sc....html?src=recg

The google search engine was adjusted several years ago to return usfirst.org as the top choice when you type in the words "first".

Not necessarily. There are other choices, but we are lazy. (me included).

Back to the game hint:
I think that the weight reduction may reflect an encouragement of modular designs that can be interchanged depending on the relative strengths of each of the robots in the alliances modular designs.

You may choose a robot that can gather game pieces, or score, or defend a goal, or be proficient at an endgame, but not all three at once.
This may be the GDC's way to encourage the robots in an alliance to interact with each other.
A la "The Atom Bomb" from Aim High, where one robot that was great at collecting balls fed another robot that was great at shooting.........balls.

The weight of each robot on the field will be less, but the withholding allowance will be much larger.

Has everyone finished wrapping their presents yet?

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Are you kidding me? It's not even the Dec. 24th yet. I haven't even gone shopping!

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I really like the idea of wiffle ball. It would be a better challenge than baseball:
http://youtu.be/FXq5KvtNf4s
Also the Andy Baker in "Robot in 3 Days", shows something similar to baseball/wiffle ball game. http://youtu.be/wJTpQmPpjmY?t=22s

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To me a "dinner missed" and "holding weight" also had the double meaning in that a "dinner missed" could be referred to as "tightening your belts", which would refer to the smaller robot dimensions, yet the robots weight would still hold--"holding weight"

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I think that the most solid thing we have are the 25% weight reduction and the picture of the plane with the upside down name, along with baseball.

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FWIW, a wiffle ball playfield is an inverted triangle...
http://www.wiffle.com/pages/game_rul...age=game_rules

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If everyone's so concerned with the web search, then why doesn't someone try it with Bing and see what happens? Sure it's going to be a little different because it's Bing, and there's a slight chance FIRST has a deal with them too, but it's worth a shot.

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Yes, it appears that it also works on Bing.
Also Dogpile, but they may be aggregating results from Bing and Google.

Back to the Game Hint..........

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Hey could someone really quickly direct me on how they found the Google Maps things that led to the FIRST church, FIRST security, and Weight limit reduced 25% signs?

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Used the Game Hint to get coordinates. Then I put different groupings of the coordinates into Google maps. This led me to four places. The Sahara Desert, the Congo, and two points near the Marianas Trench. This leads me to believe that the entire game is going to be some sort of extremes, like a mixture of uneven land, some water, and some sand. More evidence proving this is that FLL is also doing something that is sort of along the same lines. Anyways, this hint is just really bugging me and comes out as gibberish that doesn't mean anything any other way.

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I understand that this thread can become arduous to work through, but you will find all of the answers to your questions in the 36+ pages that preceded your question.
If you have the time, it may be worth your time. :-)

Not mine, I bought more gifts this morning that I need to wrap now.

Otherwise, suffice it to say that:
Google maps.
Latitude and Longitude.
Weight limits.
Rockford, Illinois.
Skating clubs.
FIRST Security.
Hockey or baseball or.....curling!!!
Something about three things.
Patents.
3v3v3, or 2v2v2, or.....

...spend time with family and friends and try to explain to them why you may be busy for the 6 weeks after 1/4/12.

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Boom. 37 pages of posts. Post number 552.

/sarcasm
 

Guys, this is extremely relevant!

http://imgur.com/gallery/AGG99GS

Football game. Finally!

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don't let the cat out of the bag...............

I will take a stab at one set of numbers!
I not sure if this have been passed over yet....
but..... 61126/1963 = 50 years

zip zode 61126 turned 50 in 2013
http://open.salon.com/blog/steven_ro...e_to_celebrate

also this fact
"ZIP codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963. The term ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan,"
"By the early 1960s a more organized system was needed, and on July 1, 1963, non-mandatory ZIP codes were announced for the entire country"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_code

but thats all I have come up with so far


so pitch that into your mail box!

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Upside down flying, overweight, robot Base ball? Programmers would be panicking. Build team would be breaking down.Electronics would be evacuating. Complete and utter chaos would ensue!

Can't wait ;)

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The name of the game will be "Conjunction Junction".

The robots will be tasked with hooking up words and phrases and clauses.

You're welcome.

Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPoBE-E8VOc. Learn something today, children.

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The pit scouts will be going around asking teams "What's your function?"

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Derailed. Pun intended. :P

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They're Cartesian coordinates. It's a hockey stick.

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Notice how they're all non-terminating decimals? Let it be known that the game will be irrational this year!

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Just out of curiosity sake I googled space baseball to see if it actually happened or if it's some obscure game I've never heard of. And this is what I found.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...--himself.html

Does this mean the robot has to do all of it at once :ahh:

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Weight reduction means... Hovercraft!
I'm predicting hovercraft hockey and I won't hear any different...

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Math clarification: the numbers are rational. They are expressed as one whole number over another -- the definition of rational. A more accurate representation would be to say that the game is non-terminating....

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Right, but you can't just take the hint as-is. That would be too easy . . . gotta do some unnecessary conversions first!
Though a non-terminating game sounds just as fun.

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Don't know if this matters at all but in 2014 it will be the 25 anniversary of the NFL.

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Umm, where did you get this from?
It's going to be SuperBowl XLVIII last I checked.

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The NFL was created in 1920 (source).

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It is the 25 anniversary of Madden Football guys.

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Just because it is the 25th of madden does not mean that the nfl is also 25 years old, just a thought. That was probably where you got 25 from..

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Maybe we are looking at the message the wrong way instead of 8234/57, 61126/1963, 62326/15806 maybe we should look at the comas as arbitrary separators of larger numbers and the actual numbers look like

8234/5761126/196362326/15806

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When you take a look at the two sites. They both say what's major about the cities. Rockford is known as the "Forrest City" and Colchester is where Coal was discovered in he 1850s

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When you Goodle 8234, the first result is a NI part ID. 5761126 comes up with a Digikey part number... Not getting anything on the other two, though, so can't be sure....

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That could be possible. Also maybe we could try using the comma as a decimal point like done in Spanish?

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Interesting idea...
That would give us 4.6049332943431415x10^-16

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You weren't kidding...... This is getting ridiculous:)

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Brilliant! :) Reminded me of my middle school teacher!

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Okay how about we all think to the some of the past games. They all had to deal with the number three. Since the numbers are in three different groups. It probably has to deal with something with the number three. Maybe they changed the shape of the field? Or it has to deal with something with the number three. ::rtm::

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I really like the google earth results with the first set of values 8234/57 and the 25% weight reduction. 8234/57 is a fraction in irreducible form. If you simplify the remaining 2 values you get 4702/151 and 31163/7903 in simplest form. Can someone try the google earth trick with these new values? I am in the computer lab and can't get administrative privileges to try it until I get home. :(

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So how about a NASCAR race in Dec 1963 that was really part of the 1964 circuit...

http://m.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/story?storyId=10172235

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So entering 61126 (with or without the 1963) in Google Maps points you to Harrison Avenue, in Rockford, IL (presumably, this is because it's the main street of Rockford, which is the city that contains ZIP code 61104). What's at 1963 Harrison Avenue?

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1963+...RPB2IZlC5wXyCA

Bearings, V-belts, roller chain drives? Sounds like robot parts to me!

I tried something similar with the 3rd set of numbers, but there's no Street View in that area... Maybe someone can go there? :cool:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=15806...s+62326& z=15

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Jim Henson made a short Film in 1963 titled the robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivJNNwTGDcw

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Jim Henson's 'Robot': 1963 Short Film For The Bell System Released (VIDEO)
http://news.moviefone.com/2012/01/27...63-short-film/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivJNNwTGDcw

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No. It will be the 2018 game, played early.

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So I'm new to this whole kick-off game hint thing but I'm super pumped for the game this year and this hint has been keeping me up...:yikes:

I took a little more of a mechanical look at it rather than trying to connect it to a certain type of game or sport or certain numbers. I took some of other people's ideas and formulated an idea by googling the numbers with "Robotics" after it separately... ::rtm:: This is what I got:

8234 Robotics: Ethernet cable number, Server
57 Robotics: First Japanese writing (AD), error code (could pop up with new coding)

61126 Robotics: Rockford (city), Radiator Drain Ock, Solder RA Thru-Hole Tray, Surgical Arm Number

1963 Robotics: Kennedy Assassination, Hula-hoop patented, Sketch Pad (drawing software) patented, THE FIRST COMPUTER CONTROLLED ROBOTIC ARM IS CREATED.

62326 Robotics: Arduino robot number (computer on wheels)

15806 Robotics: Sensor for brain surgery? Patent number for leak detection system, Roller unit number (possible change in KOP system?)

What did I get from this? Well...

There's a lot of info pointing to an arm game... Along with the triangles that people are posting and spheres and rectangular prisms, I'm thinking it's going to be a sorting game with the logo's pieces but they're 3D (like boxy-er I get that everything in the world is 3D, I meant like... more). Plus, with all of the hints in that picture (even though it says there's no clue...) I think that the end game will be somehow climbing one robot onto the other two.

Just an ideaaaa from a tonnn of research, but yeah. Shoot down as you will. :)

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LMAO--that awkward moment when your source is a video game...

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Multiplying the 3 gives you 17737.359248813320791934611015893.

The number contains 737 which is a plane (Boeing 737)

Googling the first 5 decimals (when rounded, so 35925) gives the Delta 35925-SS Vessona Stainless Lavatory Faucet. Delta is an airline.

This game must have planes/flying stuff

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I don't know if anybody did this already, but i tried looking up what the names of the teams were that were valid FRC teams.

57-leopards

1963-PSC robotics

That's all I can think of, I don't think it is much help though :(

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So.. Uh...

Top Ideas:

(1)Baseball
(2)Mashup
(3)Abstract

Reasons:

(1)TRIANGLES
(2)The Google Earth
(3)Water Bottle Picture
(4)Stairs Picture
(5)Dividing, Morse Code, Binary

I doubt any of the others.

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So... Uh... Wow. Any ideas?

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I'm not so sure about the sign it is apparently a standard Ohio department of transportation sign and can be found in this document as R-77A on page 9

http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions...20Revision.pdf

so it may or may not just be a sign that was at the right place at the right time.

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Okay, so I'm sort of going off of someone else's idea here. I noticed pages back someone mentioned some Fish thing, I don't remember it exactly, but he said he took the sum of the digits in each string. The sums produce the following pattern:
17/12, 16/19, 19/20

If applied to the English Alphabet, it produces this:
Q/L, P/S, S/T

This reduces to:
QLPSST

Applied to every basic Rotation, the following strings are produced:
QLPSST
RMQTTU
SNRUUV
TOSVVW
UPTWWX
VQUXXY
WRVYYZ
XSWZZA
YTXAAB
ZUYBBC
AVZCCD
BWADDE
CXBEEF
DYCFFG
EZDGGH
FAEHHI
GBFIIJ
HCGJJK
IDHKKL
JEILLM
KFJMMN
LGKNNO
MHLOOP
NIMPPQ
OJNQQR
PKORRS


To me, the most notable of these is MHLOOP. If you search it on Google, you should find that it's more commonly referred to as a hysteresis curve, a ferromagnetic property. I am not certain that it means anything, but I finally decided it was worth posting here, considering all of the other crazy ideas people are posting.

Normally, I would be (mostly) satisfied with this interpretation, but only part troubles me. The zero in the last set of numbers. If the numbers were meant to be added, the zero is completely useless.


Anyway, take all of this however you would like. I personally don't think it means too much, but it's the most realistic interpretation I can think of right now.

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well still the dates line up really well and that isn't part of every sign that is a R-77A sign

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yes but half of the unique value of the sign is that one like it sounded ridiculous now its just a likely coincidence, I'm not saying that it is definitely not that sign but i think we should explore other possibilities since this one Isn't quite as sound as it used to appear.

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If you multiply the numbers you get:
192/35, 72/162, 432/0

Do what you want with this.

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Those are 5.485 or so, 0.444444(hint?) and null.

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I really like this idea. The Google maps thing doesn't work for me since I'm on mobile right now, but could somebody try to run with this?

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So from what I am reading the game is baseball, with a 25% weight limit reduction, the game may or may not include stairs, and WILL NOT INCLUDE A WATER ELEMENT.:rolleyes:

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Don't be so sure. I have a theory that supports the Water Game.

Dean Kamen visited the Michigan State Championship in 2012.
Michigan has recently been getting a fair amount of winter weather.
There are icicles hanging outside my bedroom window.
Icicles are made of water.
Water game.

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Actually, never mind. I think we might've exhausted the hint. Lighter robots playing baseball. Or maybe, maaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyybbbbbbbeeeeeee hockey, just because of the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

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It also contains 30 other numbers too, even more when taking into account groups of numbers. A single grouping of a set of numbers in that doesn't mean anything.