[FRC Blog] 2014 Game Hint

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by Neima

or it could be a second lunacy challenge

How about no.

I'm betting on a time-travelling moon game played underwater at this point.

[TK3950]

62326 is a palindrome.

[gyroscopeRaptor]

Originally Posted by TK3950

62326 is a palindrome.

So is Racecar.

Overdrive redone confirmed

[John Sabath]

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)

I thought the numbers might be coordinates. Here they are plotted on a 2d version.

Originally Posted by 4404 PCH Colts

Also, did anyone have any speculation as to why the photo from the Nov 25 blog showed the water bottles? They seemed so arbitrarily yet intentionally placed.

Coincidence?

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by bearbot

From the hint their are three "3's" which could lead to three areas or the field,scoring zones,3 dimensional game piece CUBES?

Relatively confident that every game piece we've ever had has been three dimensional.

Originally Posted by John Sabath

Coincidence?

This is one of the more legitimate things I've seen.

[MikeE]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

Relatively confident that every game piece we've ever had has been three dimensional.

Citation?

[Rangel]

Originally Posted by John Sabath

Coincidence?

I actually did not notice that. The water bottles are aligned in a triangle similar to the coordinate points.

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

This is one of the more legitimate things I've seen.

Those water bottles do seem to be the only thing in the photo that could have been made to..."hold"...data.

[Bryce Paputa]

Every last digit in base ten is either a prime number or divisible by two. Creating a binary number out of this gives either 101011 (43, divisible by two->1, prime->0) or 010100 (20, opposite). Assuming the year is 2014, subtracting these gives the years 1971 and 1994.
In 1971:

• Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
  
  
• Ray Tomlinson sends the first ARPAnet e-mail between host computers.
  
  
• The British postal workers' strike, led by UPW General Secretary Tom Jackson, ends after 47 days.

In 1994:

• March 14 – Apple Computer, Inc. releases the first Macintosh computers to use the new PowerPC Microprocessors. This is considered to be a major leap in personal computer, as well as Macintosh history.
  
  
• May 12 – Ice hockey becomes Canada's official winter sport.
  
  
• June 14 – Hacker Kevin Poulsen pleads guilty to 7 counts of mail fraud, wire and computer fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.

This is probably all coincidence, but it's interesting.

[RoundTabler]

March 14, 1963 ---- Rockford's official population is announced at 132,835.

http://www.colorhexa.com/132835

Color for the third alliance?

Also, JFK keeps coming up in my searches....

[davidthefat]

The ratio between the first two numbers is about 4.64 and the ratio of the second to third number is about 7.90. Each consecutive number is smaller by a bigger factor.

The target this year will get progressively smaller as time or score progresses. Since the limiting factor of the size of the goal is the game piece, the game piece this year will be a tennis ball or golf ball (something around that size).

[Xavbro]

Originally Posted by John Sabath

Coincidence?

Nice catch.

[Brandon Zalinsky]

Originally Posted by John Sabath

Coincidence?

THIS
Post confirmed for true

If not only to get the right answer, but to dispel the Dr. Who discussion.

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

This is one of the more legitimate things I've seen.

No, look at the axis labels. That's the first thought to pop into your head, but the scales are off.