Let me continue speculating on the game hint... I know some already touched on the significance of the number 3 based on:
- the second game hint was labeled hint #
3
- pi starts with
3, and pi was used to translate the numbers
- "Never Gonna Give You Up" is
3 minutes and
33 seconds long
- The Rick Astley Picture is held up by
3 different colored pins (if their intentions weren't to make it specifically
3 different colors and wanted to maintain correspondence to FIRST's color scheme, one of the red pins would be white)
But here are two things that I didn't see anyone mention that emphasizes on the importance of the number 3 here...
1)
The picture of Rick Astley occurs EXACTLY 3 minutes into the music video it was taken from.?
2) Is it just a coincidence that the only pin that is different on that image is the
3rd one whether you count them as if reading lines, or if you count them like quadrants of a unit circle ***pi***?
Now, I'll recite what someone previously said about FIRST's game trends:
2011 resembled 2007
2012 resembled 2006
If 2013 will follow this pattern and resemble 2005, then the 3's are easily and obviously related to
tetras.
But other than that and the unlikely possibility of having 3 alliances, any thoughts on why 3 would be so important, and how it may relate to the other game hint?