When will the first official game hint be released?

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

2010 was the only year where someone actually used the hint to figure out what the game was going to be IIRC. Someone looked at the thickness of the polycarbonate sheet and estimated that soccer balls could fit nicely in it.

Fun bit of hint trivia: The 2007 game hint was used to determine the game piece of that year. Here's the post (the pictures are gone, but essentially he rendered a picture of a tube on a spider leg from the game hint)

Of course, the challenge's rules don't change if you figure out the game early, so it is of no help to you to do so. Not to mention that you won't know if you're right until the exact same time you'd figure out the game the regular way.

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Fun bit of hint trivia: The 2007 game hint was used to determine the game piece of that year. Here's the post (the pictures are gone, but essentially he rendered a picture of a tube on a spider leg from the game hint)

Of course, the challenge's rules don't change if you figure out the game early, so it is of no help to you to do so. Not to mention that you won't know if you're right until the exact same time you'd figure out the game the regular way.

Wasn't there also one year, early 00s, where the game hint was a BoM, and someone actually built part of the field, VERY similar to the final product?(IIRC it was for a double-level trailer similar to what was used in Lunacy...Zone Zeal?)

[magnets]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Of course, the challenge's rules don't change if you figure out the game early, so it is of no help to you to do so. Not to mention that you won't know if you're right until the exact same time you'd figure out the game the regular way.

I'd say if you unscrambled the anagram "Vet hurdling FIRST tetra" from 08 and got the encrypted manual open, you'd be pretty sure that you were right.

[Kristian Calhoun]

Originally Posted by magnets

I'd say if you unscrambled the anagram "Vet hurdling FIRST tetra" from 08 and got the encrypted manual open, you'd be pretty sure that you were right.

Except even if you solved the anagram, you couldn't decrypt the manual without the proper capitalization and punctuation (Drive!Straight?turn!LEFT!?).