2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!

[sharrington9614]

Now I'm no expert in cryptology or the history of FIRST however these hints have been conning out for a few years now. if we were to go back and reverse engineer all the previous hints a pattern could emerge helping us better understand the thought process of theGDC. in tern making it more simple to decode the current game hint

Oh and by the way new drive train be be in part because the big rumor I heard was Belt drives

AND SHUT-UP ABOUT WATER GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's not gonna happen

[sg999]

I feel like that there's another layer to the hint that's been missed so far:

KISS
- (from CalTran's sig) Keep It Super Safe
- (from I don't remember whom) Keep It Simple, Stupid
Therefore, the smaller robot dimensions make sense because they will be safer and simpler. However, there's probably something else that this can be related to.

Kit of arts:
-Rick Astley, Rose Kue, and Seal are all music artists (or at least stellar musicians)
-The backdrop of the crew picture is a piece of art (starry night)
-"The Starry Night" is a famous poem by Anne Sexton (may or may not be related)
-Rose art museum- history of Carnegie Hall (famous for music)
Carnegie: Carnegie Mellon University, steel plant, philanthropist, etc (missing something here, he has to tie into this somehow)
-Seal- family seal=art form in some cultures
Art will be tied into this somehow.

EDIT: Got rid of repetitive info

[F22Rapture]

Originally Posted by dellagd

I think im leaning towards more of Rick Astly being less and less of a hint.

It did just say a picture from the GDC lab, and maybe someone there wanted to be funny and posted a picture of "Never gonna give you up" on the board because it had the lyrics "Never gonna let you down" in it, just like the end game of lifting your teammates off the ground I think will happen this year.

Its very possible that there just happened to be 2 red one blue and one yellow pushpin available for use when whoever posted the photo on the board.

Also, the fact that this rhymes (And with the correct syllable counts) makes me think it is the correct decryption even more:

I have a hard time reconciling that the screenshot having been taken at exactly 3:00 is a coincidence. "Three" is a recurring theme this year... I still think it's significant.

[Radical Pi]

Originally Posted by sg999

G and T are the same:
-G doesn't exist in many other scripts, but the sound of g exists almost world wide.
-G was created by a Roman (Romans=copycats of the Greek), has changed a lot (used to be represented by many different letters)
-T is from the ancient Greek, which was once a very powerful country, and Greek was used both by mathematicians/scientists (Pythagoras, etc) and literary artists (Aristotle, etc).
-T also stayed constant throughout the ages, having a similar representation in most scripts.
G=T, so new aspects to FIRST which may involve more non-engineering ideas (art?)
There has to be some reason that they're the same, so if the above isn't it, it has to be something else, there's no way the GDC would just do it randomly.

That one's been explained already. The cipher is based on pi, with every 2 digits corresponding to one letter of the alphabet. As it happens, arranging in alphabetical order makes G and T both correspond to 97

[jtechau]

Originally Posted by F22Rapture

I"Three" is a recurring theme this year... I still think it's significant.

"Three" is a very common number. It's pretty easy to find coincidental relationships with things so common.

If you play "The Wizard of Oz" and "Dark Side of the Moon" simultaneously, there are an impressive number of coincidences. But they're still coincidences.

[Daryl Vogel]

I think what we should do is post (in one thing) everything we know for sure and
then start trying to make connections

[Shifter]

Good work gyroscopeRAPTOR on the pi thing!

One possible reason for using "pi" as part of the hint, maybe each team gets one of these in this year's KoP.

As far as the "DINNER MISSED", I don't know from Bill's Dec 20, 2012 blog who from the FRC staff was missing. An older list of FRC staff appears in an April 27, 2011 blog but there are multiple different names on the two lists.

[coalhot]

Idea: this is game hint number 3, but it doesn't say anywhere that numbers 1 and 2 have been released yet. What it they are something else, say the names of the game manual, maybe a new section, maybe a new product released in the next two weeks?

[Dominator1619]

running on the pi thing, maybe there is no end game? if you miss dinner, you dont get desert right?

[Dominator1619]

or pi could be the actual hint itself

[Bastius95]

Has anyone found the EXIF data for the Rick Astly photo? It seems that the image was taken inside a building called Mill no. 3 in Manchester NH. I dont know if this means anything but the see science centre is located in this building.

[jspatz1]

17 pages and you guys don't have this figured out yet.

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by Dominator1619

or pi could be the actual hint itself

I think the idea of a pie game scares me more than the idea of a water game.

- Sunny G.

[Cosgrayk1]

31 is a very important mathematical and Geometrical number. 31 is used to reference the center of a triangle, pentagon, or decagon. thats all i got right now.

[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

You whipper-snappers don't remember the before-bumper days, when we all had steel frames and prayed they'd hold up...

I would trust regular robot-robot action, but not with wheels exposed from the front of the frame by 4" that can get clipped off