[FRC Blog] Kickoff Broadcast and Game Hint Redux

[Joseph1825]

I was talking with my mom several weeks ago and I told her my idea for this years game. I guessed the game would be hockey. I thought there would be three zones and one robot from each alliance will be in each zone per match. You would play with a giant hockey puck (~18 across) and there would be goals on each side of the field. Each time a puck was scored another one would be introduced at the mid-field.
I didn't expect that my guess might actually be close to right.

[cad321]

Unfortunately I've been getting behind on my reading of all the posts so im unsure as to whether anyone has seen this yet however did you notice that 2 of the numbers in the new hint are anagrams for the numbers in the old hint? Not to sure where/if this will lead to anything but just thought I'd throw it out there. Also 2 of the numbers stayed the same but that was pretty obvious.

[Anthony4004]

Originally Posted by cad321

Unfortunately I've been getting behind on my reading of all the posts so im unsure as to whether anyone has seen this yet however did you notice that 2 of the numbers in the new hint are anagrams for the numbers in the old hint? Not to sure where/if this will lead to anything but just thought I'd throw it out there. Also 2 of the numbers stayed the same but that was pretty obvious.

yes its a different format for dates. We have already "solved" the hint as being the birth dates of record assisting athletes and their number of assists. PLEASE read the thread (or at least browse) before posting!

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

....so, um, Green isn't the answer?

tl;dr: Did anyone parse the original hint numbers using the same theory (:assists: ) to see what they got?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but here are the original numbers:

"8234/57" -> 3-4-82 w/ 57 assists -> Landon Donovan w/ most assists in US Soccer

"61126/1963" -> 61-1-26 w/ 1963 assists -> Wayne Gretzky w/ most assists in NHL

"62326/15806" -> 3-26-62 w/ 15,806 assists -> John Stockton w/ most assists in NBA

And the new numbers:

"61474:135" -> 6-14-74 w/ 135 assists -> Steve Ralston w/ most assists in MLS

"12661:1963" -> Still Gretzky

"32662:15806" -> Still Stockton

They only make the dates into a more recognizable format by putting the dates at the end instead of the beginning. I'm guessing they swapped Donovan for Ralston because:

a) Donovan only held the record for US soccer, not All of Major League Soccer

b) Donovan also hold the record for most goals at the same number of 57, making the intentions slightly confusing.

At this point I'm (and lots of others) are fairly certain this is the hint. Nothing here doesn't make sense to me.

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by cad321

Unfortunately I've been getting behind on my reading of all the posts so im unsure as to whether anyone has seen this yet however did you notice that 2 of the numbers in the new hint are anagrams for the numbers in the old hint? Not to sure where/if this will lead to anything but just thought I'd throw it out there. Also 2 of the numbers stayed the same but that was pretty obvious.

Yes.

[raptaconehs]

Ok so I saw the Wikipedia edit which said that the 2014 FRC game was Step Up. Which might not mean anything, but I would like to put out there that someone in the original game hint thread mentioned how turning a picture looked like stairs. So maybe at the endgame you have to climb the stairs.

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by raptaconehs

Ok so I saw the Wikipedia edit which said that the 2014 FRC game was Step Up. Which might not mean anything, but I would like to put out there that someone in the original game hint thread mentioned how turning a picture looked like stairs. So maybe at the endgame you have to climb the stairs.

Don't trust Wikipedia. Some guy thought it would be funny to mess the page up, the game is not "Step Up."

[phantokidd7x]

I haven't browsed through the thread yet, but searching the number sets get some results vaguely.
61474:135 gets a Triple tachymetric indicator from Aerosup
12661:1963 shows codes for pipes
32662:15806 gets banking and revenue (maybe something with the budgets of the robots?)
I don't know what these could mean, but who knows.

[gavmac928]

I think that it's less about the assists, and more about the sports, especially because both the original and new first set of numbers was meant to be a soccer record. I think that it's either a game involving soccer balls, basketballs, and hockey pucks, or a game combining soccer and basketball on regolith surface (to be like hockey). Or, if the assists also mean coopertition, as some people have theorized, I think there would be the three different game pieces from the three sports, which all weigh different amounts, and the robots would have to use them to balance a scale, and if its balanced you get coopertition points. Although it would have to somehow start unbalanced, since otherwise you would get points without doing anything.

[atucker4072]

Originally Posted by gavmac928

I think that it's less about the assists, and more about the sports, especially because both the original and new first set of numbers was meant to be a soccer record. I think that it's either a game involving soccer balls, basketballs, and hockey pucks, or a game combining soccer and basketball on regolith surface (to be like hockey). Or, if the assists also mean coopertition, as some people have theorized, I think there would be the three different game pieces from the three sports, which all weigh different amounts, and the robots would have to use them to balance a scale, and if its balanced you get coopertition points. Although it would have to somehow start unbalanced, since otherwise you would get points without doing anything.

It probably has something to do with one of the sports or the person that set the record. This is how lots of game hints have worked in the past. I mentioned earlier that maybe the game element was a stick if sort going off of the Wayne Gretzky assist record. He was also called the great one. That the stuff we need to look at, at this point.

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by phantokidd7x

I haven't browsed through the thread yet, but searching the number sets get some results vaguely.
61474:135 gets a Triple tachymetric indicator from Aerosup
12661:1963 shows codes for pipes
32662:15806 gets banking and revenue (maybe something with the budgets of the robots?)
I don't know what these could mean, but who knows.

You should read the thread

[petrovbot]

does anyone think that when Frank said that Dr. Who was not a hint, he meant that it was not part of solving the hint given?(which was the birthdays/assists stuff) and it is now safe to speculate how the Doctor wants to chip in? Cause it seems to me that if we are going to be choosing between soccer, basketball and hockey, we have already played two of those which leaves hockey, the 1963, the start of Doctor who, the only game unplayed.

it does sound like people are leaning twards hockey, so am I just restating what people have already found out...?

anyway, there are my two cents,

[Gaff_Tape]

I know that I'm a little late to the party, but I noticed that the Doctor Who GIF

Frank

*Doctor Who is not a hint. I just happen to enjoy the show.

[Please don’t take my saying Doctor Who is not a hint to mean it really is a hint. It’s really not a hint]

[[Please don’t take my saying Doctor Who really is not a hint to mean it really really is a hint. It’s really really not a hint]]

[[[etc]]]

is titled "333.gif". A cursory reverse image search does not return GIFs with the same title, so one could argue that "333" is deliberate.

In regard to the "Doctor Who is not a hint" stuff: The subject of Doctor Who is not a hint, but the GIF(and/or its title) could be.

Perhaps 333 only refers to the 3 sets of numbers or the 3 associated sports, but it could also be a teaser or something else.


Anyway, this is something that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread yet.

[joelg236]

Originally Posted by Gaff_Tape

I know that I'm a little late to the party, but I noticed that the Doctor Who GIF

is titled "333.gif". A cursory reverse image search does not return GIFs with the same title, so one could argue that "333" is deliberate.

In regard to the "Doctor Who is not a hint" stuff: The subject of Doctor Who is not a hint, but the GIF(and/or its title) could be.

Perhaps 333 only refers to the 3 sets of numbers or the 3 associated sports, but it could also be a teaser or something else.


Anyways, this is something that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread yet.

Surprisingly, I'm actually inclined to go with you here. The title could be automatically generated though, so there's no reason to get excited yet. A quick glance at other blog posts reveals a trend of word titles "ie. Frank%20Answers%20Fridays.jpg". Hmmm...

[loyal]

I think the hint has to do with repeating or redoing. First choice was a redo. The hint was a redo. The Dr Who pic. Is repeating over and over. The Dr Who as a hint denial over and over. In the TV show the Dr keeps coming back. Obamacare was a redo(thats putting it nicely). Some one in the first hint thread noticed that somehow the numbers were repeating.
If you add in the assist angle that could be a relay. So it repeats. Usually the simplest solution is the answer. This is as simple as my simple brain can come up with.