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Originally Posted by ReapersRule
This is the exact poem I was referring to from 2009. If you actually go to the locations on google maps (or don't, just read it and think about it) it is quite obvious what each line refers to.
"Take your machine out of the shop on Colorado in Paramount" Zamboni shop - low coefficient of friction, like ice
"stop by and get connected on Central in Phoenix" the u haul - and we connected to our trailers
"drive by and make a pickup on Minnetonka in Minnetonka" - forgot what was there, but we had to pick up the empty cells.
"then head to the field on Evergreen in Dover" - if I need to explain this one, there will be epic facepalms.
It may have made no sense at the time, but it doesn't seem that complex now.
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I have to say, cannot contain myself any further, but have been lurking through and reading this thread nearly non stop since Wed. night (took time out to go to a Mentors Meeting/Dinner in a restaurant w/ wifey tonight - Thurs. though, and discussed the thread instead part of the time). Takes a while when you follow most links of course. Only hit 1 Trojan (Be careful of the old MFG. site for the Jaguars tech info straight from the VexBot site to the old makers of the Jag's. there's a JS.Trojan.Exploit there upon opening the page link...MS Security Essentials cleand it immed., no harm, no foul...Oh, and only 1 actual non-expected RickRolling LOL).
Way back when Win XP was about to be released to the public, before the release, Microsoft hosted a worldwide game (a real world game much like what this particular clue release has caused in this thread), and the game took weeks, people all over the world cooperated together to solve the puzzle together....(I work in the IT & computer repair/consulting field, and I work for myself, am big multi-tasker very Type A Idiot, and I could play the game while I worked and still produce fully, think FRC build season 24 hrs a day)...But that game ("Loki" you nearly killed me)...I played that game nearly 24 hrs. a day for the few weeks or months it ran and I still have every clue & post link in neat lil' folders archived on a BU HD and some great memories (I actually was a Second Place Winner and won a Zune Player from Microsoft that I gave to my middle son).
I would have been proud to have had any/ & many of you along for the ride as many of you have gone down so many roads and are on the right track I think in many places, some I think are waaaaay off base as I very well may be also.
Luckily for me, there is only less than a day and a few more hours and the whole puzzle will be revealed as far as what the clues mean.
Kudos to those that decrypted the poem, right on through to the actual poster of approx. the (Partial) of Pi....Though If I read one more reference to "water game" (though I did have to laugh about the T-Shirt at AndyMark a page or 2 ago), and am also as terrified of the scouting aspect of 4v4 or the even worse thought of 3v3v3...Yikes!
I have seen some suggest and discuss their feelings (most being Mentors of course), about how build season over extending, etc.
Sry, had to lay a foundation...Here are my guesses. Bear w/ me and my book here a few minutes...Remember I read from page 1 of the thread to the post somewhere in page 30 or so before posting once. But the quoted post above hit where I was before I hit page 24. (Methinks Frank is a very bright man, I wouldn't even be surprised to know that either Frank and/or a few on the Game Development Team also met "LOKI" along the way also).
1. The Pic of Rick. Rickrolled? HS Jr. Student son (Programmer, Driver, all around everything if it needs doing), and I were discussing the RICKPIC last night, and my Teacher Mentor Wifey says "What's Rickrolled?" We educated her very quickly. Now (my real ?)...How in the world did she make it to late 40something teaching / & researching the web like she does without ever getting Rickrolled? I need to really find out that secret (I live on the web, I research solutions to hardware/software & other problems for a living, any idea how many times I have been Rickrolled myself since 2004? Care to even guess? Think of the digits in Pi, then add a Raspberri or 2...LOL).
Or, is the RICKPIC a VERY GOOD hint? A real promise by Frank to post the pic previously to the actual posting? I looked back through his postings & I saw no proof (if you did see a previous promise to post that pic in another of his previous blog posts, please post back a link for me).
So it leads me to also think that pic has a ton of meaning, that particular frame of the vid is exactly minute 3:00 into the actual vid (any on youtube, same song, and that song can/could have many of the game element and/or title meanings all over it), then there is the "rose" window up to the right, rectangle field, the choice of pushpin colors & positions, (a light hits the gloom on the gray...Never mind that is Game Clue #3 after decryption of the poem, and I digress), but there are elements inside the pic I saw that could relate to parts of the decrypted poem easily. I'll see later if the RICKPIC has anything at all to do w/ this game later, I SURELY HOPE?! </;-)
2. The teaser clues in Frank's Dec. 18 Post and his use of 2 words/phrases hit me odly (Mesoamerican Long Count..., & not Myan Long Count...), and ‘coincidence’ ....which was anything but when on 12/21/12 a portion of what seemed like a series of #'s as "easy as pie" (but wasn't, still WOW), was served up as The Promised Clue - or "Game Clue #3" (Along w/ certain info for those interested in the KOP•Size: 6" x 7" x 30"). Very interesting stuff.
3. The title of "GAME CLUE #3" is a clue in it's own right. (3's as almost everyone knows so far, will go far)...No "coincidence" that 12/21/12=3+3+3 caused a ton of consternation, nervous energy, guessing & excitement. Personally after looking at what the bracket sheets looked like for when it was 3v3v3 back when (before my time for sure), it was a mess or appeared that way, though they got through it....I personally think 3vs3 is safe for now (I guess we'll see together in less than 36 hrs, eh?)
4. Cryptography really isn't my thing (and the ones who like cryptography here), seemed to have safely and logically deduced & reduced, and decrypted & massaged the game clue cipher into a reasonable poem result; Work explained very well & easily trusted.
A ROSE, KISSED
SINGER GREAT
A DINNER, MISSED
HOLDING WEIGHT (Though the last comma was misplaced originally in a few
of the posts). The one pointing that out and the ones
that immediately followed it turned on an instant light in
my head.(!) ("My eyes become large and the light that you
shine can be seen").
5. Straight to YouTube (Sokay, I love that Seal Song anyway and had been whistling it since the first mention of "Kiss From A Rose" by Seal), you know that tape in your brain that keeps looping until another song or piece of music replaces it (please do not deny it, humor me....I CANNOT REALLY BE ALONE IN THIS!!!) LOL Watched the vid a time or 2, off to download the Lyrics IMMEDIATELY...Hmm, they were not discussed in any of the posts so far in this thread.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/seal/kissfromarose.html
6. Then I began reading them and it felt (read it as you hear it), just like "Build Season" & beyond (I believe many of us during competition will really miss the "witholding weight" fellow FIRST FRC Members). But, I think based on the amount of Dinners we do miss between Saturday 1/5 & that Bag & Tag day after mid February arrives, and all that happens like a blurrrrr between those 2 points and beyond (it is time we find time to have a REAL sit down & eat at home "Dinner" or 2).
Then again looking back to last year and how different colored lights reflected differently from that ("A light hits the gloom on the gray"), gray reflective tape that was used on the backboards last year, and how neat that looked through the Camera as a target in reverse contrast...Either red, or blue, or green on a black background....So the song could mean many things to many different people.
Or it (the poem), could explain elements of the game, or the Game Title....We'll see. But, I do personally think we are going back to Bag It, Tag It, Run what ya brung, and fix it (only) if you have to during the few hrs. you have onsite at competitions (No arriving w/ that 25~35 lbs. of reserved & refined extra practiced witholding weight in the form of major fabricated pcs. or what you saw that worked real well in that YouTube vid last week).
SRY All, My book is done....Fading into the wallpaper to finish the thread....."My power, my pleasure, my pain, FRCeeeeeeee"
OK, I'd rather believe that we all make it to the Championships, Seal comes and performs a set or 2 incl. "Kiss From A Rose" for all of Mentors like Wil & the Peas did for the kids, and FIRST throws in a sit down dinner. Hey, I didn't start all this...Frank did.
Cg