[FRC Blog] 2014 Game Hint

[malanis]

My guess for awhile now, this having little to do with the clue, is weighted balls. i,e medicine balls/ bowling ball/ 48in solid steel ball.

[Sean Raia]

62326

5 digits and a mirrored number?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Five_lette... wards#slide=2
Radar and Rotor stand out here.

Might be of interest. Perhaps the digits stand for letters

[magnets]

Originally Posted by Sean Raia

62326

5 digits and a mirrored number?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Five_lette... wards#slide=2
Radar and Rotor stand out here.

Might be of interest. Perhaps the digits stand for letters

I've been trying for a while with this, and gotten nowhere. There's a ton of 6's so I set six equal to e, but the only words that start and end in e (for 61126) is efface, and there aren't any palindromes like that (for 62326). Then, I tried with two letters is, in, my, at, or, and couldn't get anywhere with that either.

[SuperDave777]

Originally Posted by malanis

My guess for awhile now, this having little to do with the clue, is weighted balls. i,e medicine balls/ bowling ball/ 48in solid steel ball.

I hate to have to lift a 48in solid steel ball. Battle bots watch out.

[ksafin]

So by assuming x/y=x divided by y we get the numbers:
144.4, 31.1, 3.9; now recognize that these are quite close to 144,32,4=12^2,2^5,2^2. Now add the base number in each to the power and look at that letter in the alphabet to get NGD; the ticker symbol for none other than New Gold Inc. "It engages in both exploratory and production activity in North America, South America and Australia" And what is the abbreviation for these three continents? That's right, NSA; the government agency recently being exposed for wiretapping. Thus we can obviously see that this challenge will require our robot to somehow incorporate wires.

[TK3950]

Originally Posted by ksafin

So by assuming x/y=x divided by y we get the numbers:
144.4, 31.1, 3.9; now recognize that these are quite close to 144,32,4=12^2,2^5,2^2. Now add the base number in each to the power and look at that letter in the alphabet to get NGD; the ticker symbol for none other than New Gold Inc. "It engages in both exploratory and production activity in North America, South America and Australia" And what is the abbreviation for these three continents? That's right, NSA; the government agency recently being exposed for wiretapping. Thus we can obviously see that this challenge will require our robot to somehow incorporate wires.

Genius. Code cracked. We can all sleep easy.

[Robotmmm]

Holy over-analysis Batman! This thread really exploded!

Can someone who has been around awhile answer a simple question please?

Has analysis of the game hint ever produced a clear understanding of the game prior to kickoff?

[Brandon Ha]

Originally Posted by Robotmmm

Holy over-analysis Batman! This thread really exploded!

Can someone who has been around awhile answer a simple question please?

Has analysis of the game hint ever produced a clear understanding of the game prior to kickoff?

never. in. ever.
I think the only reason why they even put them out is to get the creative juices flowing. and to give some jobs to people that love FIRST

[jolrael]

OK, hold with me here.

In 1963 the post offices created the zip codes.
61126 is the area code for Rockford, IL.
In Rockford there is a Boy Scouts of America team; Number 57.
Googleing BSA 8234 gives you a site about a silver dollar.
http://www.greatcollections.com/Coin...llar-NGC-MS-70
Googleing silver dollar and 15806 sends you to this site, about the red rainbow-fish. By the way the rainbow-fish picture was taken in IL.
http://www.ratemyfishtank.com/friendemail.php/15806
I couldn't find anything for the last number...

[Bryce Paputa]

Originally Posted by Robotmmm

Holy over-analysis Batman! This thread really exploded!

Can someone who has been around awhile answer a simple question please?

Has analysis of the game hint ever produced a clear understanding of the game prior to kickoff?

Not that I know of? I think that people generally figured out that 2010 would be soccer from the CAD file they gave (maybe that was another year/game), but couldn't really know anything about the game without the rules. The games make the hints pretty obvious though, and normally someone gets it right; The problem is knowing which of the crazy "solutions" is correct.

[z_beeblebrox]

Originally Posted by Robotmmm

Holy over-analysis Batman! This thread really exploded!

Can someone who has been around awhile answer a simple question please?

Has analysis of the game hint ever produced a clear understanding of the game prior to kickoff?

I asked that around this time last year!

[RB73]

Going back to this picture: http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default...ff-Filming.jpg

Im surprised no one has commented about how, from left to right, they have 0, 1, then 2 feet on the ground.

Endgame involving climbing on something? full points for fully supported, partial points for partially supported.

[Flimsor]

Originally Posted by RB73

Going back to this picture: http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default...ff-Filming.jpg

Im surprised no one has commented about how, from left to right, they have 0, 1, then 2 feet on the ground.

Endgame involving climbing on something? full points for fully supported, partial points for partially supported.

What if we get points for being lower? As in maybe the robots will be higher most of the time, then get bonus points for being lower somehow?

[mikemat]

Originally Posted by Robotmmm

Holy over-analysis Batman! This thread really exploded!

Can someone who has been around awhile answer a simple question please?

Has analysis of the game hint ever produced a clear understanding of the game prior to kickoff?

I recall getting darn close in 2012.

[Christopher149]

If you reduce the third fraction (62326/15806), the numerator becomes 31163, which has a very similar pattern to 61126 (the second numerator).

Hmm.. I got nothing yet.