[FRC Blog] 2014 Game Hint

[bduddy]

Originally Posted by Zuelu562

Using the idea that the first number is a date, I searched June 14, 1974, December 6, 1961 (Could be January 26, '61 however), and March 26, 1962.

Those dates yielded some interesting results. June 14th '74 was the date Nolan Ryan stuck out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings. December 6, 1961 was the day the Heisman was awarded in that particular year. March 26 1962 was the birthday of several athletes, covering Baseball, basketball and soccer, and was the day the inventor of wax paper died.

January 26, 1961 (the alternative option to Dec 6 61) was the day Elvis Presley's hit "Are you lonesome tonight?" peaked to #1, and is the birthday of Hockey great Wayne Gretzky.

Lots of references to sports.

EDIT: Misunderstood your post. Yeah, they're almost certainly dates. Good job!

[Zuelu562]

Originally Posted by bduddy

This doesn't work at all with the first set of numbers, though.

I was referencing the first number of each pair.

[saikiranra]

99.99999999% sure this is not it, but if you divide the numbers, you get
455.362962963 6.44982170148 2.06643046944

If you make a date out of this, you get June 2nd, 445

The Vandals apparently sacked Rome on that date.

[BleakRNS]

The gif Frank posted is named 333.gif.

[Hallry]

If you search the first set of the updated numbers, 61474:135, on Google, you get an Aircraft Part:

TRIPLE TACHYMETRIC INDICATOR, Part No. 61474-135-1

Source: http://www.aerosup.com/THALES-AVIONI...474-135-1.aspx

No hits for the second or third sets of the updated numbers, though.

[coalhot]

Like usual, everyone's over thinking this. Need to read the blog post again:

Some folks on the GDC honestly thought the hint this year was going to be too easy.

If the GDC thought it was going to be easy, I think we should step back and try to solve the hint in the most simple method possible. We've had hints back in the day that were a lot harder to solve, and we solved them faster and more easily.

[George1902]

Steve Ralston, born 6-14-74, holds the MLS record for assists: 135.

Wayne Gretzky, born 1-26-61, holds NHL record for career assists: 1963.

John Stockton, born 3-26-62, holds the NBA assists record: 15806.

[GCDelp]

They also changed from using slashes to colons, claiming they formatted it to something we would recognize easier. And they used double 6's in each of the last pairs.

[Zuelu562]

Originally Posted by George1902

Wayne Gretzky holds the regular season record for career assists: 1963.

Ok. That's one of the most solid things we have. Lets go forward with this. Something to do with 135 on 6/14/74 and 15806 on 3/26/62

[GCDelp]

Originally Posted by Zuelu562

Ok. That's one of the most solid things we have. Lets go forward with this. Something to do with 135 on 6/14/74 and 15806 on 3/26/62

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ralston

Born on the June date, 135 career assists. I don't think this works too well though. He plays soccer.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stockton

Born 3/26/62. 15,806 career assists in the NBA. Sounds like we have a pattern going.

[Hallry]

Suggestion: Continue the discussion of the updated game hint on that respective FRC Blog post thread. That way, people don't have to go through almost 800 replies of incorrect guesses and can start fresh with the new numbers. Thoughts?

[Calvin Hartley]

Originally Posted by Hallry

Suggestion: Continue the discussion of the updated game hint on that respective FRC Blog post thread. That way, people don't have to go through almost 800 replies of incorrect guesses and can start fresh with the new numbers. Thoughts?

Agreed.

[vanjan14]

Originally Posted by Hallry

Suggestion: Continue the discussion of the updated game hint on that respective FRC Blog post thread. That way, people don't have to go through almost 800 replies of incorrect guesses and can start fresh with the new numbers. Thoughts?

Best idea in this thread!

[Anthony4004]

Originally Posted by Hallry

Suggestion: Continue the discussion of the updated game hint on that respective FRC Blog post thread. That way, people don't have to go through almost 800 replies of incorrect guesses and can start fresh with the new numbers. Thoughts?

Agreed. To the newer thread!!! *cue batman scene change music*

[vanjan14]

Originally Posted by Hallry

If you search the first set of the updated numbers, 61474:135, on Google, you get an Aircraft Part:


Source: http://www.aerosup.com/THALES-AVIONI...474-135-1.aspx

No hits for the second or third sets of the updated numbers, though.

If you image search "TRIPLE TACHYMETRIC INDICATOR" you get pictures of 3-dial wrist watches.
https://www.google.com/search?espv=210&es_sm=122&biw=1920&bih=954&tbm=isc h&sa=1&q=TRIPLE+TACHYMETRIC+INDICATOR&oq=TRIPLE+TA CHYMETRIC+INDICATOR&gs_l=img.3...2262.3369.0.4851. 2.2.0.0.0.0.63.109.2.2.0....0...1c.1.32.img..2.0.0 .h4p5gPHpzKc