2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!

[alectronic]

Originally Posted by ReapersRule

"drive by and make a pickup on Minnetonka in Minnetonka" - forgot what was there, but we had to pick up the empty cells.

IIRC, that was the location of the "moonrock" manufacturer, in MN

[Gadeer Zbedat]

2013 game hint ??

[maddog175]

Back to the hint (#3): All of the letters of the decoded poem can be anagrammed into: "rearrange letters, showing message hiding inside, kiddos" - so that the hidden message is that there's a hidden message!? Note that it's circular - and so relates to pi.

[Siri]

Originally Posted by ReapersRule

This is the exact poem I was referring to from 2009. If you actually go to the locations on google maps (or don't, just read it and think about it) it is quite obvious what each line refers to.

"Take your machine out of the shop on Colorado in Paramount" Zamboni shop - low coefficient of friction, like ice

"stop by and get connected on Central in Phoenix" the u haul - and we connected to our trailers

"drive by and make a pickup on Minnetonka in Minnetonka" - forgot what was there, but we had to pick up the empty cells.

"then head to the field on Evergreen in Dover" - if I need to explain this one, there will be epic facepalms.


It may have made no sense at the time, but it doesn't seem that complex now.

Yes, I figured it out then. What I'm saying is that is not "immediately obvious after the game is released without much analysis". You list it as an example along side things like the 2010 ball return CAD, but it isn't. Even after the game, you still have to do considerable work and stretching to back-discover what it's talking about.

This 2013 hint may well be the same way, except even stretchier because it has less information. If you weren't around for the 2009 hint, even if you knew Lunacy (which is why I asked "you [plural]"), you wouldn't be able to connect the poem to the game without serious research, and even then it's more difficult that things like realizing Little Eva sings "Locomotion". This 2013 version is like taking the 2009 poem, and replacing all the useful proper nouns with word riddles while removing the verbs.

The closest recent example is the 2008 GPS coordinates, but even that's obvious once you know what's there--2009 still isn't obvious even once you know, for instance, that Blip Toys is located at 15255 Minnetonka Blvd, Minnetonka, MN 55345.

[Foster]

My favorite JVN quote is:

To ANY Robowrangler students reading this thread: If any of you ask me about the game hint, at any time, you will be assigned 4 hours of shop cleaning duty during week 1. No exceptions.

Oh wait, cross-posted from the "inspire thread" sorry ...

... or not

As a young person, I always wanted time to speed by.

As an older person, I want time to slow down so I can savor every day.

As a mentor, I want the time from the 26th of December to kickoff to pass in a hummingbird heartbeat ....

[gabrielau23]

Originally Posted by Foster

My favorite JVN quote is:


Oh wait, cross-posted from the "inspire thread" sorry ...

... or not

As a young person, I always wanted time to speed by.

As an older person, I want time to slow down so I can savor every day.

As a mentor, I want the time from the 26th of December to kickoff to pass in a hummingbird heartbeat ....

I'm young right now, and I want everything to just slooooooooooooooooooooow down. Everything's been going by so fast lately. And lolz at the 4 hours of shop work.

[Flimsor]

Originally Posted by ReapersRule

I think we're going too far away from the hint. What have we had in previous years is immediately obvious after the game is released without much analysis

I agree. I think we need to step back and look at this a little more simply. Each clue is probably just a generalization of an important part of the game. I'm thinkin' that the Rick Astley hint refers to the end game, and that the decoded version of the other hint is the actions that the robot has to go through to score a point (we'd have to figure that out though). 3 is something extremely important to the game, but we may not be able to figure that out until we've seen the game.

Originally Posted by midway78224

2013- ???????? (2005 Triple Play with a twist maybe)
Any guess what this year game twist will be.

I'm thinkin' that that's what's going to happen. I was looking through the animation of Triple Play and noticed that there was a pad that the human player had to stand on and if they got off to load a game piece the robot would turn off. My first thoughts were Kinect implementation. We haven't heard much of that this year, and we already know that they wanted to improve its function in the game, so it wouldn't have been a clue anyways. That may be part of the twist thought. I'm also thinking that they're will be a different field setup and a better end game.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by CalTran

Return of the human player pad? XD

Originally Posted by Flimsor

I'm thinkin' that that's what's going to happen. I was looking through the animation of Triple Play and noticed that there was a pad that the human player had to stand on and if they got off to load a game piece the robot would turn off. My first thoughts were Kinect implementation. We haven't heard much of that this year, and we already know that they wanted to improve its function in the game, so it wouldn't have been a clue anyways. That may be part of the twist thought. I'm also thinking that they're will be a different field setup and a better end game.

I thought it was earlier than 2006 that the human player pad was...because I was kidding when I said return of it. I don't think the Kinect will be returning either because it's not in the rookie kit, and I doubt that Microsoft is up for donating another 3000 of them. I think barely 10% of teams ended up using the hybrid station, though some more than others.

I've been saying it for a while too, I think Triple Play-esque is the way the GDC swung for this year. They're somewhat overdue for an unconventional object game. As far as the 4 robot alliances / 3 alliances, I just have to say one thing. No. Not happening.

[ksafin]

Relevant?

Normal is lame anyway

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[Kevin Thorp]

Originally Posted by midway78224

... i think it might be a remake of Triple Play with a twist ...

Maybe this is the twist?

[Littleboy]

That could be a lot like a 3D Logomotion.

[gabrielau23]

Originally Posted by Kevin342

Maybe this is the twist?

The middle piece would cause some problems. In Logomotion this was avoided because they were all tubes that could be grabbed, but I don't see this one as being easy to grab and hang. Then again, who said we had to hang? And the pieces don't have to be exactly like this.

[orangemoore]

Maybe the circle would be a sphere because that would go with the team of the 3D models

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by gabrielau23

The middle piece would cause some problems. In Logomotion this was avoided because they were all tubes that could be grabbed, but I don't see this one as being easy to grab and hang. Then again, who said we had to hang? And the pieces don't have to be exactly like this.

FTC teams are pretty good at grabbing cylinders.