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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

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five 'bots tangling with pasta
a game piece obsessed with a shovel's show
and seeing Montana's green heights
Hey guys just a few notes that I think could head this thing off in a slightly different direction.

Accoding to the first entry in this thesarus, obsessed is a synonym for controlled. So a game piece controlled by a shovel's show? Perhaps the shovel part alludes to how the game piece might be manipulated, and therafore what shape it might be.

On a similar note, the pasta part has been picked apart quite a bit with conclusions ranging from game piece shapes to hydrality (it's a word now), but here's something new. Perhaps it refers to plurality. You never see talk about pasta as a single object, but as many pieces, and generally small. I'll go out on a limb and say many smaller game pieces that need to be collected (going on the shovels show/minining theory) and and put into goals. If the objects were really small (inches) that would lead to some interesting scoring possibilities, as scores would probibly have to be determined by volume, not number of object, also we'd see some very different collection systems.

Also the tangling is a synonym for mixing. Perhaps game pieces can be mixed in goals?


Oh, 5 DOES NOT REFER TO BOTS! Regardless of it's place in the sentance structure. There are many countless reasons previously covered about this. It's far more likely to refer to something more likely like number of goals, game pieces (that would be different, each alliance starts with only 5 pieces to score with), or even something more abstract, 5 minute matches anyone?

And here's hoping this inspires people to look at things a little different, where does the Human Player fit into all this? Are they shoveling? Providing communication to the driver for a part of field blocked by the hieghts? What then?

Anyways here's to hoping people are inspired




So in short:

1: Game piece controled by shovels show.
2: Pasta = plurality/small
3: Five /= bots
4: Where does the Human Player fit in?
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