When will the first official game hint be released?

[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?)

[Dustin Shadbolt]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

In olden times, former GDC member Dave Lavery used to post hints right here on CD, from which we could learn the exact nature of the FRC game -- IF we could decode them. Unfortunately, Dave's code was exceedingly complex. Something akin to translating all the technical facts into Kurdish, all the historical facts into Navajo, all the numerals into Chinese, and then scrambling the characters, re-encoding in EBCDIC, and then posting the final text in pig-latin. That explanation is actually a bit oversimplified. No one ever really understood any of Dave's hints.

These were the best type of hints. Just random hints dropped throughout the forum. It always fun going through the hints after Kickoff and realizing the meaning of each hint.

If we get a hint, you will know about it.

[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.

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

In olden times, former GDC member Dave Lavery used to post hints right here on CD, from which we could learn the exact nature of the FRC game -- IF we could decode them. Unfortunately, Dave's code was exceedingly complex. Something akin to translating all the technical facts into Kurdish, all the historical facts into Navajo, all the numerals into Chinese, and then scrambling the characters, re-encoding in EBCDIC, and then posting the final text in pig-latin. That explanation is actually a bit oversimplified. No one ever really understood any of Dave's hints.

"No one ever really understood any of Dave's hints."??? How can you say that??!?!! I understood every single one of them!!! (and so did Bill Murray!)


-dave




..

[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!?).

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by dlavery

-dave




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Anyone know the history behind Dave putting a good inch of black space at the end of his posts? All the old ones I've seen seem to have this same "Dave gap" too.

[Whippet]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

Anyone know the history behind Dave putting a good inch of black space at the end of his posts? All the old ones I've seen seem to have this same "Dave gap" too.

From what I can tell, he just likes his posts to have extra white space. On the other hand, there are two dots at the end this time, rather than only one. Double the dots... Double the robots!

[yash101]

I talked to FIRST, and they gave me a hint:
Boxes fly, robots stack

















Lol. that's a joke!
The more we wait for the hint, the more time it will take for them to release it!

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Whippet

From what I can tell, he just likes his posts to have extra white space. On the other hand, there are two dots at the end this time, rather than only one. Double the dots... Double the robots!

Oh, great. Dave and his Morse code strike again.


And I'm willing to bet that some portion of the game animation is currently busy on Dave's render farm... otherwise, why would he be out here stirring up confusion?

[BBray_T1296]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

I believe that one of the hints for 2009 was a fish.

What do fish have? Tails

What comes to mind when I say "Fish Tail"? Fishtailing

What is "Fishtailing" referring to? Pulling a Trailer

Game Hint Explained

[Walter Deitzler]

Originally Posted by BBray_T1296

What do fish have? Tails

What comes to mind when I say "Fish Tail"? Fishtailing

What is "Fishtailing" referring to? Pulling a Trailer

Game Hint Explained

Actually, I believe the fish in question was a moon fish...

[BBray_T1296]

Originally Posted by LedLover96

Actually, I believe the fish in question was a moon fish...

Who said the hint had only one solution? We are dealing with some slippery fish here (no pun intended)

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by dlavery

"No one ever really understood any of Dave's hints."??? How can you say that??!?!! I understood every single one of them!!! (and so did Bill Murray!)


-dave




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Touche', Dave.


BTW, I notice a striking resemblance between your Other Car, and the Chinese 'Jade Rabbit' lunar rover. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Congratulations on continuing to inspire.

Now that China has joined the moon exploration club, and has several FRC teams, maybe FIRST should revisit Lunacy?

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

... maybe FIRST should revisit Lunacy?

With automated moonrock counters on the trailers!

[Dominick Ferone]

Did anyone figure out the rick astley hint from last year my guess was rick rolld flick rolld its frisbee but i am wondering was that actually the hint?