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Re: 2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!

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Maybe this is the twist?
The first line in Seal's "Kiss from a Rose" is:

"There used to be a graying tower alone on the sea."

I wonder if this might refer to a tower in the middle of the playing field(sea) from which robots(seals) have to hang these game pieces(fish).
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Maybe this is the twist?
Nw I'm going to have nightmares about trying to design a mechanism that can handle all 3 of those parts!
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Nw I'm going to have nightmares about trying to design a mechanism that can handle all 3 of those parts!
Just design something that will grab the material, not the entire part. Something that'll grab the PVC tube.

While I think that it'll be a Triple Play remake, I think this specific remake would be too close to Logomotion for the GDC to pick
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Nw I'm going to have nightmares about trying to design a mechanism that can handle all 3 of those parts!
Just a hook on an arm or a fork lift to go all the way through.
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Just a hook on an arm or a fork lift to go all the way through.
Perhaps an inflatable bag that can easily be filled/emptied with compressed air would suffice
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A ROSE, KISSED
SINGER GREAT
A DINNER, MISSED
HOLDING WEIGHT
Um, I have not seen this mentioned in this thread yet:

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Having a little time on my hands, I used an online, iterative anagram solver, to rearrange the poem into this:

"rearrange letters, showing message hiding inside, kiddos"

So, the hidden message is that there is a hidden message !?!?
(from here)

Is that as strange to you as it is to me?
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Re: 2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!

I could deal with those game pieces
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Re: 2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!

I like how the this thread has devolved into designing game piece manipulators for a non-existant game.

Don's post seems promising.
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Just a hook on an arm or a fork lift to go all the way through.
I think the main problem with that would be the potential for the piece to swing or twist around the PVC tube. Designing a manipulator for one piece, say, the cylinder, wouldn't be so hard, but designing a manipulator that could handle the pyramid and cylinder (the cube is the easiest) together might be a challenge because of the angled sides. Then again, I could conceivably see an arm reaching through it that could go up and down to slide the game on or off the arm. Lol we don't even know if that's going to be the game....
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I like how the this thread has devolved into designing game piece manipulators for a non-existant game.

Don's post seems promising.
Agreed. The anagram was pretty crazy. Could it be a coincidence? My heart says yes, my head says no.
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I like how the this thread has devolved into designing game piece manipulators for a non-existant game.
At least we're working on how to play the game for once, haha. Normally we'd just speculate, just to speculate. No one ever gets close enough to actually get any advantage and start coming up with ideas.
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At least we're working on how to play the game for once, haha. Normally we'd just speculate, just to speculate. No one ever gets close enough to actually get any advantage and start coming up with ideas.
Play what game? Everyone's combined knowledge of the game so far is 0.
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Is that as strange to you as it is to me?
If you've ever mailed in your box tops and waited, impatiently, for several weeks until your secret decoder ring arrived -- only to discover that the secret message was a reminder to drink your Ovaltine -- well, a secret message telling you that there is a secret message does not seem strange at all.
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Re: 2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!

After reading a wide array of threads, I've investigated the most common ideas. After doing so, I have determined that they all stop soon after the obvious. After, I soon conducted a simple web search with the game hit. After looking through 4 or so pages, many scripts from the Titanic movie came up. "A ROSE KISSED" would make sense pointing directly at the main character, Rose, and her on going romance. "A GREAT SINGER" is a bit harder to make a connection with, but the Titanic did have many great performers on board, and it could be pegging the performance of "My Heart will go On" made for the movie. "A DINNER MISSED" could be pointing at the scene in which the sinking ship disrupts a dinner party, and "HOLDING WEIGHT" refers to not only the sea holding the ship for many hours, but also the what is still on the ship today.

As far as 3 is referenced:
the movie came out in 1997, 3 years before 2000.
Jack was on the 3rd class.
Titanic was one of 3 White Star Line Ships of its class.
It picked up passengers from 3 major cities before going across the Atlantic.
It took 3 hours to go down.

Now, I personally think that the 3 in the hint is not of any if so little importance, after all it is the most common number in the world.

So with this what might the game be?
-Keep the ship from sinking.
-Try to reclaim "items" from a wreck.

These games wouldn't be in water, but how long have people said it was a water game? This is about as close as FIRST will ever get.
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Play what game? Everyone's combined knowledge of the game so far is 0.
I meant coming up with a solution to a possible game. We're still nowhere near figuring this out.
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