Originally Posted by EricH
2003: y=ax^2+bx+c, a reference to the scoring system
2004: Some lines from Stairway to Heaven, by Led Zeppelin, referring to the stairs and the bar on the field.
2005: a riddle, involving Pi, amethyst, two players to make unassisted triple plays, and other references to 3, pointing to the game name, Triple Play
2006: "Five 'bots tangling with pasta, A game piece obsessed with a shovel's show, And seeing Montana's green heights." In shape, that was a roundish riddle; in hindsight, it covered what you'd do with the game piece, the offense/defense periods, and the CMUCam vision targets.
2007: Image from the game animation, showing a scored game piece on the #5 column, top peg.
2008: The doozy of doozies. Hint season opened with every team getting hint #1, an IR receiver that would work with a standard remote, in the mail. Hint #2, a couple weeks later, was GPS coordinates leading to a statue of the tortoise and the hare in Boston. Hint #3, "Vets hurdling FIRST tetras", was most of the password to the encrypted manual--scrambled, of course, and without punctuation.
2009: First the opah. Then, a riddle that lead from the Zamboni plant to the maker of the game piece to a couple other places.
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