2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

[Adam Richards]

Time for an analysis:

Originally Posted by Hint

five 'bots tangling with pasta

A few possibilities here:

• 5v0 - Hopefully not. 4v0 was irritating for some teams. Adding another team into that would create issues.
• 2v2 - Maybe they're just saying 5 to throw us off (as always)
• 2v3 - Unbalanced teams, yet still plausible. The team of 2 might get extra points to balance out the lack of a 3rd robot.
• 3v3 - Again, they could be trying to throw us off.
• 2v2v1 - Few options here. Two alliances and a lone team fighting to win. The lone team could potentially be a mercenary working for whatever alliance they feel like, or the points gained by the lone bot could be added to both alliances.
• 2.5v2.5 - Perhaps we have 3v3, yet one random robot gets disabled every 20 seconds, and another is "unfrozen"

Originally Posted by Hint

a game piece obsessed with a shovel's show

Hmm...

• Shovel - A lifting mechanism for pickup sticks perhaps?
• Snow/Ice - Lets see... a shovel picks up snow in winter. Maybe we have a sled or even CURLING on snow/ice?

Originally Posted by Hint

and seeing Montana's green heights

Two words pop out here: seeing and heights. Seeing could be a reference to the reappearance of either the CMUcam or Infared. Heights could mean a multi-leveled game platform or a hill on the field or a raised part of the field.