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They're all waiting for the official hint. Once that comes out, you'll get your responses.

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I've been thinking, and I dont know if this has already been posted, so i may look like an idiot here... but what does water do to light? it bends it... bends, curves, ARCS This makes me think about how this was released as a clue for last years game, but also makes me think this years game could involve projectiles.

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I looked up the image source in CD Media and found it Tagged under 2005
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/22418

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i was just thinking what if the "banana" was part of his face?

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Also what if the clue has something to do with a TV show, like last year?

Who remembers this?

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Whoa Whait a minuit slow dowm for a sec here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Question: why are we listening to the ever so questionable dave lavery??????


Answer: HE has tricked us into believing everything he says..


Conclusion: The game will be some totally random, off the wall challenge of juggernaught proportions, designed to push our robots as well as the very minds that created them past the limits of typical human reality......................But thats just a guess.;)

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I hope not, the past 2 years have wiped me out,

i hope its simple and everyone can be on equal ground :)

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Yeah, thats smart....water mixed with electronics

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I have long since given up on these hints, and come to the conclusion that they are designed to befuddle us all and amuse Dave.

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My boss just came up with something:

What if the drivers are looking through distorted plexiglass for all or part of the match.

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Or this?

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All I have to say to add to that is:

One fish
Two fish
Red fish
Blue fish

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and it's working so well!

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Anyone think about a possible game piece in those large water jugs (like the ones from culligen)?

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the water hint could be in that direction. A game using water jugs would be much more feasable than a "water" game, like with boats... nah. too hard to set up the field. What would the jugs be used for, though?

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new question, what is the deal with you guys and mixinng water with electronics? the the thought scare you, or is it beyond your comprehension to realize that if it was an underwater game then the kit would be totally different.

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Obviously we would use empty jugs, as they are much lighter. They could definitly be used for scoring, or as some sort of goal, but my thought is a gamepiece.

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Bowling or bashing each other!! :D

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I highly doubt that there would be any "bashing." This isn't battlebots:mad:

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haha, Dean, Woodie, and Dave are the pins.... :yikes: :p

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2 words...

stack

attack

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we use water jugs... because the game will entail SUPER MENTOS ROCKETS!!!

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I. Love. It.

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So, are you thinking we are coming down the stairs? (Yes, I do remember, and yes, it is the best theme song in the history of everything)

(Why do I keep posting after Steph? I swear, I'm not following you, Steph! Even if I do love 1629)

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I think the game is going to consist of having to stack objects this year.... I have been intercepting the snail mail, of all the GDC members and they have been receiving an extraordinary amount of free AOL Cd's.... so I think we are going to have to stack AOL Cd's this year



then again, maybe people just shouldn't listen to Big Mike, when he is bored, or tired and can't sleep

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baby it will be extreem underwater battle bots, i know its been thought of before and i know that in the end it is a huge waste of time money and reasources but wouldnt it be cool just for one year tho throw all of that to the wind, say the heck with it, and have us build the terrifing death traps that are battle bots, and as far as gracious professionalism, helping otherteams would be key, and so would graciously and professionally standing by and watching your bot get totally ripped to shredds.;)

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Have they been sent to those 200 mailboxes from last year?

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i like that, better than my idea anyway.

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So, the GDC is trying to provide a public service by creating a use for AOL Cds? Wow, I'm impressed! :D

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I bet we'll be building flying robots this year.

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What about having to stack the Cd's without srcatching them so they can be used at a later date or make a DJ-bot

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My analysis:
The water: We can't see the game clearly.
The banana: Dave is saying that our minds will slip up on figuring out the game again.
The blue robot: The game will involve robots.
The light bar on the robot (connected to the "hint" at the Championship): Red vs. Blue, with green target lights.
The fish: Dave is throwing us some red herrings.
The blue line: Random item to throw us off.

By the way, this is a still from the 2006 animation, modified to give a bunch of "fake hints".

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When does the official game hint come out by the way? I haven't seen any news on this, and it is getting very close to the big day we've been waiting for since last year on this very special day I'm talking about. :D

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Wait about another 1-2 weeks. If it's released at all, it'll be sometime in that window by tradition.

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perhaps everyone is underthinking things. I belive that the three lights ar eimportant because there r going to be 3 teams of 2 in position stations on oposite ends of the field. The banana is just a farytail - ie dave laverys idea of a joke.

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Thank you very much! I'll be on a watch for it.

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If we're all underthinking things, then I think that means you're overthinking them. Every year, everyone reads too much into the hints given by Dave.

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It would be sooo funny if the Game hint for this year was this picture.

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Hey everyone, my first post.
Where can I find all the clues so far?

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Your reading them:)

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It probably isn't much. 3 on 3 is the current norm. However I'm having thoughts that the Blue, Red, and Gree 'lights' at the top, is actually the field configuration. If you look really close at the top three, the blue is cut off on the left, the green on the right, and the red is full circle.



I figure this by saying that the yellow fish and the yellow banana are across each other...the orange fish and the orange eyebrow are across each other, the blue eye and the light blue mark on the fish is across each other.

EDIT: You know how there is a picture of Dave tossing his Red snappers and said "Maybe they are Herring". Well after some research, in 2004 75% of all Red Snapper was actually found out to be labeled incorrectly, for those Red Snapper where a whole different fish...Red Herring...Now All I need to find is a connection.

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This is actually what I was thinking.

The delineation between the "groups" is clear by the line.

Defense bot has the banana.

Keep-away comes to mind, but it's too aggressive for FIRST.

If this hint is in any way relevant to the game, I think that we might see alliances that shift based on some aspect of the game--time or possession. Not a big shift, but some sort of one.

Or, maybe teams will be limited to one half of the field--the half opposite to their alliance station, to make it difficult, and will thus "face off" against each other.

I'm waiting for a more specific game hint though.

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Looking at the picture in Tetramans post I thought of this. What if there are 3 - 2 team alliances, one blue, one green and one red, with the field divided in half. One bot in each alliance has to be on each side, but things that happen on one side affects what happens on the other. Just an idea, I can't wait to find out how wrong I am. :D

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Oh my god.

My first Lavery hint was four years ago.

:eek:

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I hope I don't ruin any of Dave's fun, but the Herring thing does have nothing to do with this unless it just so happens.

The picture of him tossing the Red Herring/Red Snapper is located on a website of one of the team members of 116 where she photoshops pics of Dave. Google image it.

I have a feeling the shift in the line via the ripples is actaully a hint. Such as stairs. A game field that is split in half by two levels, seperated in the center by stairs.

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I just got off on a tangent: juggling. I can't help but think that dlavery is juggling the red herring in that picture posted a while back. It kinda makes sense, jello the clown would juggle for the crowd's entertainment, especially at the circus.

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The red herring photo is exactly that: a red herring.

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So if the red herring is a red herring, then what's a real hint?

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The one the game design committee will hopefully put out within a few days.

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I'm getting a weird feeling that this is the actual hint. The game hint should be out by now, shouldn't it.

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So we're using red x's as game elements this year?
Well that's different.

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I am pretty sure that the game hint came out on the 23rd last year. Give it a week.

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haha.

Three fish across the line.
Hold the yellow fruit delight,
under the waves; over the light.

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Does anyone notice the period dlavery puts at the end of every one of the posts (pretty much) that he makes to the game clue threads. It started recently, and he doesn't do it in any other thread.

4 newlines and then a period.
4 red herrings.
at least 4 "clues," not one.

4 what!?

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Its not Triple Play! Its Quadruple play! :ahh:

Hum.. what comes in 4s... a square has 4 sides... maybe 4 teams per alliance (i doubt this thou...). Ok I'll stop now, already gone to far with this :p

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very insightful.

I do recall, as many people have already mentioned, that FIRST has started using their own symbols as game pieces... triangle, circle... now we're due for that square. (along those lines i looked at the 2005 kick-off video, and they did say they wanted to use all the shapes of first....)

Maybe another stacking game like stack attack?

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Actually, Dave does that a lot for many of his posts over the years. I think it's just for aesthetic reasons, so there would be a white space from the bottom of his post until the start of his signature. (Otherwise new lines at the end of a post without any text on them are deleted.)

Or maybe not. lol ;-)


Someone should make FIRST fortune cookies, because I think I just thought of a good one. ;)


:ahh:

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I


think it


is because the return



key on my


keyboard is


broken.




- dave







.

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It could

Also be the idea that

something will be switched on for

a while than pause to

stop every so often.

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Possibly with the lights that they showed us last year in atlanta, they said that they would change colors every so many seconds (i think it was 2 sec.). And if we do use squares (blocks, cubes, PVC pipes assembled into cubes: ;) ) i hope that we will be launching them like we did last year, the shooter games are a lot of fun, although shooting squares would be a bit difficult.

ehh... i guess ill wait another week for the clue.

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Has anyone else noticed that dave always signs his posts even though it is clear that they are from him. Maybe there well be specific objectives for each team on an alliance that is specific for what position they are.

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I know of several people who do that. It's probalbly just a habit.

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I'd guess that's just a habit, I dont think theres a post he's made that doesn't have his signature.

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Yes there is.



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I've also noticed Dave switching his user title surprisingly much lately in comparison to how he used to. (For the longest of times, it was simply Curmudgeon, or in my really early days on CD Curmudgeon V-Neun.) Somebody care to find the connection between John Lennon, Joe Barbera, and robots?

(I'm absolutely joking here--I have absolutely no interest in hint-chasing this year.)

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John Lennon died on December 8, 1980
Joe Barbera died on December 18, 2006
- a tribute perhaps -

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8
18
What happenes/happened on the 28th?

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8 and 18 are both multibles of......
no never mind..........

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Hopefully not a death of someone that was respected and admired, and perhaps a hero. I don't think everything Mr. Lavery does has to do with game clues even at this time of year. This is a very intense time and everyone is waiting for 'the' clue/hint but perhaps we can respect a small tribute for someone who has passed as being just that. Mr. Barbera was an animator, cartoon artist, producer, and wore many other hats doing wonderful wonderful work. It was his life's work.

.02
Jane
Edit: I didn't include the quote but I was referring to an above post trying to link 8 and 18.

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The *real* clue, of course. It means the real clue is going to be later than usual this year, so he was giving us something else to puzzle over until it comes out.


(I'm entirely kidding, I agree with Jane that it probably has nothing to do with the game.)

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Of course.

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What I have to say is actually grounded, so this may not be the best place to say it, but as it seems all the game speculation has ended up in this thread might as well put it here. According to FIRST's website

So, once again robots weigh 120 lbs, we have six weeks, and we have bumpers. Why I'm searching for game hints at 1 in the morning I have no idea. :rolleyes:

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This just came to me last night...
They had tripple play but what about connect four? its a square and utilizes the number four in a sugnificant way

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oo dang. good idea!