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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

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Originally Posted by iCurtis
I did a Google image search for Butte and I found some that didn't have slanted sides, near vertical in almost all cases. Therefore, I think that this year's game will not have inclined surfaces, but rather a platform (with the top being higher than three feet) with a bar at one, much like the steps in FLL's 2004 challenge, No Limits. The object? Reach the top of the platform before the match expires and you recieve extra points instead of a multiplier (or maybe a fixed multiplier like 2x or 3x) becuase frankly, TV audiences don't like doing multiplication (especially with decimals) when they could be adding.
That does make an awful lot of sense. Buttes tend to be plateaus.

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I'm all for water games, inflatable clownfish games, or whatever other kind of game FIRST could invent. However, the logistics of filling a 60x40 foot tank of water even a foot deep are astronomically nightmarish (that's a lot of buckets ). So a water game will not happen, unless regionals are moved to facilities with Olympic Sized swimming pool facilities (which we know they aren't this year).
Yeah. Can we end the water game speculation now?

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Originally Posted by skimoose

It's not Joe Montana the clue is refering to, it's actually refering to Frank Zappa's masterpiece; "I might be moving to Montana soon... Gonna be a dental floss tycoon" 5 bots tangling with dental floss!
By Jove...

Good as inference as I've heard from anyone.

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Originally Posted by Fruity Pebbles
I think we've all just about had it with this clue, and i think we need to listen to the "Quotable Adam" as he puts it...

Just a little skippit of our IM

Adam - 1341 (10:37:38 PM): hey, what's up?
Me (10:37:45 PM): thinking about you know what lol
Adam - 1341(10:37:54 PM): haha give it a rest
Adam - 1341(10:38:00 PM): you won't figure out the game
Adam - 1341 (10:38:02 PM): no one ever has
I disagree, "Quotable Adam." Last year, CDers figured out the basic tetrahedral part of the game, in that things would be pyramid shaped. We didn't figure out the tic-tac-toe thing, but that couldn't be expected.

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