2012 Encrypted Manual Now Avaliable

[Grim Tuesday]

Alright, I was just testing the waters; a password guessing thread could either be a fun distraction or vastly offensive thing. A game hint at the password, given a day before kickoff could be fun, too, though it would ruin the surprise.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

Alright, I was just testing the waters; a password guessing thread could either be a fun distraction or vastly offensive thing.

Did someone say...WATERS?

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

Alright, I was just testing the waters; a password guessing thread could either be a fun distraction or vastly offensive thing. A game hint at the password, given a day before kickoff could be fun, too, though it would ruin the surprise.

Yeah, I see what you mean. I doubt FIRST would release the password as the game hint - somebody would probably figure it out and ruin the surprise and strict time constraint. But you never really do know with the GDC...

And a password guessing thread, which may be on the "okay" side of the grey area, is probably not a good idea to delve into, since it's not really within the spirit of early-encrypted-manual-releases (and we don't want that privilege taken away...). For, it's just a better idea to avoid trying to figure out the password early game anyway; I've waited long enough for kickoff, I should be able to make it another three days, 15 hours, ~30 minutes.

And also, it only takes one person to not think before they post, say something stupid and wrong, and ruin it for everybody.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

I doubt FIRST would release the password as the game hint ...

One year the game hint was an anagram of the password. Not like they'd ever use that trick again.

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

One year the game hint was an anagram of the password. Not like they'd ever use that trick again.

Did it get guessed? Which year was it?

[bearbot]

o its just the encrypt file what now everone going to attempt the break the long encytped code haha cnt ya just wait ......i have seen anagram and hints but please just wait a few days

[Jacob Paikoff]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

Did it get guessed? Which year was it?

2008

I think that we had all of the words but not in the right order.

[the man]

Yeah so what is the process of downloading these? Should there be a save option when I right click?

[Ninja_Bait]

Originally Posted by the man

Yeah so what is the process of downloading these? Should there be a save option when I right click?

Yes, "save link as...". Also, you can save it from Adobe Reader if you open it in your browser.

[CalTran]

Whaaat? There's not one manual to rule them all?? XD Aside from that, looks like I'll be doing some downloads tonight, get myself ready for Saturday. Can't wait!

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Jacob Paikoff

2008

I think that we had all of the words but not in the right order.

May have gotten all the right words, but there was zero punctuation in "Vets hurdling FIRST tetras" and there were 4 punctuation marks in "DriveStraightTurnLeft" (I don't remember the types/order). In other words, still no way to get it... even if we'd figured out that it was the decryption password instead of thinking it was a riddle.

[Trent B]

One concern with what is uploaded. The KOP last year, and apparently this year has not been uploaded yet and that is what most people had concerns/demand for. I will try to grab it and make it available if FIRST's website goes down

[davidthefat]

http://www.mediafire.com/?g4rkaib5j6...72719vn9j39u9d

Why not just mirror them now?

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

http://www.mediafire.com/?g4rkaib5j6...72719vn9j39u9d

Why not just mirror them now?

This is why:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...4&postcount=54

[davidthefat]

First letter might be "G". The last word in the phrase might start with "S". I called it!