2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!

[gyroscopeRaptor]

Yep, the rhyme Nate posted is the real translation. H and V, G and T, S and B both have the same set of digits.

Great work, guys!

[karomata]

I still believe that we need to look into the NASA website a bit more in depth. Mission 31 launched today, meaning that maybe the GDC worked with NASA when creating this hint. On the blog, it even says that this hint is really good. I would assume that what they mean by that is that it is a very interesting/complex hint. The website is:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st...n31/index.html
This is one of the first few links that you get on Google when you search 31, the only repeating isolated number in the chain of code. This might very well be worth looking into, because it is plausable that the GDC decided to to another NASA themed game, similar to Lunacy, and looking at it from a worldy aspect, NASA recently lost government funding, they could use some promotional events to help them sustain in the upcoming years, unless the world ends today.

This definantly could be a substancial lead in understanding the meaning of this hint.

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by BigJ

As a previous poster pointed out:



Seal won 3 Grammys in '96 for the song "Kiss From a Rose". I refuse to believe this is a coincedence!

Interesting that though the Grammy was won in 1996, the song was released in the US in 1995. The FIRST game in 1995 was Ramp n' Roll, Similar to "Rick Roll" No?

EDIT: Overview of Ramp n' Roll:

In two minute matches, three robots race down a 30-foot
raceway, over a speed bump just wide enough for two to
pass through, to retrieve their 24” and 30” vinyl balls. To
score, they must carry the ball(s) back up the raceway
and push or shoot the ball over a nine-foot field goal
from either the playing floor or a raised platform area, all
the while trying to keep their opponents from scoring.
Teams may score more than once with each ball – the
smaller ball is worth two points and the larger ball is
worth three points.

2013 Game Name: Seal the Deal

[Sean Raia]

A ROSE, KISSED
SINGER GREAT
A DINNER, MISSED
HOLDING WEIGHT

"Holding Weight" I believe, is the real hint here.
The second line corresponds to the first hint (Rick Astley)
The third line corresponds to the the second hint ("End of the world")

I still don't understand the Rose Kissed part.

[JohnChristensen]

Originally Posted by karomata

I still believe that we need to look into the NASA website a bit more in depth. Mission 31 launched today, meaning that maybe the GDC worked with NASA when creating this hint. On the blog, it even says that this hint is really good. I would assume that what they mean by that is that it is a very interesting/complex hint. The website is:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st...n31/index.html
This is one of the first few links that you get on Google when you search 31, the only repeating isolated number in the chain of code. This might very well be worth looking into, because it is plausable that the GDC decided to to another NASA themed game, similar to Lunacy, and looking at it from a worldy aspect, NASA recently lost government funding, they could use some promotional events to help them sustain in the upcoming years, unless the world ends today.

This definantly could be a substancial lead in understanding the meaning of this hint.

I think I must be missing something. It appears to me that Mission 31 launched exactly one year ago today, not today. So 366 days between the dates.

EDIT: What if the "HOLDING WEIGHT" line refers to heavy game elements. Last year at championships, they had a guy from NASA speaking about the Curiosity mission. I forget his exact quote, but the way he said it and what he said made me immediately think it was a game hint. This is really out there, but what if the game is based on Mars and heavy Mars rocks (could be the two boxes in the KoP?). There have been '3' games between the last NASA game and now...

[goodsky]

I'll just toss my thoughts out here.

A ROSE, KISSED
SINGER GREAT

all seems to refer to Seal to me.

A DINNER, MISSED
HOLDING WEIGHT

Seems to refer to a single something that I can't figure out. This would make the answer to the riddle "Seal X". Some short phrase or something. Does anyone else have any ideas along these lines?

[Culvan Van Li]

Originally Posted by goodsky

A DINNER, MISSED
HOLDING WEIGHT

Seems to refer to a single something that I can't figure out. This would make the answer to the riddle "Seal X". Some short phrase or something. Does anyone else have any ideas along these lines?

Missing a meal could be called "Fasting" or it could make you "tighten your belt".

Andy

[Bill_B]

Last year's FTC game involved holding weight - as high as they could - stacking game.

[Roger]

Originally Posted by who716

Got my hopes up, when i google imaged search the numbers one photo came up but it turned out to be just a site that the hint was posted on

Sorry... had nothing better to do.

"Kiss from a Rose" song lyrics:

There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea
You became the light on the dark side of me
Love remains a drug that's the high and not the pill
But did you know that when it snows
My eyes become large
And the light that you shine can't be seen?

[Chorus]
Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey
Ooo, the more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah
Now that your rose is in bloom
A light hits the gloom on the grey

...

Lighthouses? When it snows == build season? IR lights?

Also was sung in the movie "Batman Forever" -- something about Dark Knights/Nights?

[coalhot]

Originally Posted by goodsky

A DINNER, MISSED
HOLDING WEIGHT

How about this? You miss a dinner, yet you don't lose any weight. Sounds like something is being removed, yet it's not affecting/changing anything.

[MelodyPond]

Originally Posted by HumblePie

Intrigued by the KOP dimensions, could be interesting if not a typo. We believe that the GDC works more than 1 year out, so I dug up this post from last year:

"On a slightly unrelated note, there has been a lot of speculation re: the return of minibots. Why not apply the "miniaturization" principle to the grown-up bot? The 38 x 28 footprint has been somewhat sacred lately, and it's possible that the GDC had issues with so many chassis designs being "recirculated" from Rack 'n Roll last year. The new CRio is smaller, why not the robots? A smaller footprint would force many teams to rethink their entire packaging scheme."

Smaller robots might make a 3 alliance match feasible, or are we missing the obvious witht the multi-colored push pins, and the GAME PIECES come in 3 colors (red/yellow/blue)?

Yellow was the color of the autonomous Logomotion tubes right? There were three different colored pins, and the third color was yellow. If the rumors are true that there may be 3 minute matches, then the rumors that there will be longer autonomous rounds could be explained by the third push pin. Right?

[rlowe61]

Originally Posted by karomata

So the number 31 is repeated twice, so when searching it into a regular google search, one of the top links is this: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st...n31/index.html
This may refer to the game in some fashion because FIRST has been known to relate games to NASA missions and other accomplishments.

If you look at the link, during mission 31, they experimented with "Water".....Water Game

[CalTran]

For y'all, h2o is a bent molecule, easily converted to a triangular shape (clear "bond" thing between the hydrogen) there's your water game

[Sean Raia]

Originally Posted by HumblePie

I dunno....this reminds me more of MEATLOAF.....

A ROSE, KISSED
SINGER GREAT
A DINNER, MISSED
HOLDING WEIGHT

It could be both Seal, and Meatloaf.
I don't believe that's what they were going for, but maybe there is something in common between the two singers.

[Walter Deitzler]

Originally Posted by coalhot

How about this? You miss a dinner, yet you don't lose any weight. Sounds like something is being removed, yet it's not affecting/changing anything.

Well, with the fact that there seems to be a smaller chassis. This could mean that sized is removed from the robot allowance, yet it shouldn't subtract from the overall play of the game.