2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

[Kristian Calhoun]

Originally Posted by Rickertsen2

Well when pasta is uncooked, it is straight. Remmeber the batons (straight things)? Shovel: thing that picks up logs(straight things)? The game peice will be some sort of log-like thing.

Montana + heights - montana has mountians. I don't think the field will be flat this year

Maybe some sort of "king of the hill" type game with (green?) foam noodle where the bot standing in a particular area at the end of the round or on whatever is supposed to represent the "hill" in this situation scores bonus points?

The heights reference might mean that the field won' just be flat, maybe raised, multi-leveled, or maybe with some sort of mound on it? Or maybe you will have to score into a goal that is placed up high, or stack/unstack the noodles.

the 5 bots part is confusing, because you could divide the bots into diff. coalitions, or put them into a number of different situations where the total number of bots is 5. or this part of the clue might have been purposely made to mislead us.

well, that's just my two 2 cents. ;-)

[viking1902]

i believe that the " 5 'bots" part has nothing to do with the actual number of robots on the field. a " 'bot" might be a goal of some kind that "tangles" with "pasta." i believe that "pasta" might suggest the use of fun noodles or another pasta-shaped object.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by ViKiNg_1083

i believe that "pasta" might suggest the use of fun noodles or another pasta-shaped object.

What about rope? Perhaps some net to go under?

[Alex Burman]

Originally Posted by Quantumman

-If you move the apostrophe over so that it is on the "five" and not the "bots", then it is simply saying five' or five feet/foot bots - perhaps a reference to the size limit.

i don't think they would miss punctuate on something to carefully planed out

we can't forget the Emerald Isle though

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

rocky terrain, the flag is almost identical to Italy's except its orange not red

Ireland has a history of being separated with goes with my idea of multiple teams

according to http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...k/geos/ei.html
Ireland has the natural resources of natural gas, peat, copper, lead, zinc, silver, barite, gypsum, limestone, dolomite

Italy has coal, mercury, zinc, potash, marble, barite, asbestos, pumice, fluorospar, feldspar, pyrite (sulfur), natural gas and crude oil reserves, fish, arable land

about joe montana's stats at notre dame http://www.thedebster.com/ndstats.html

[Quantumman]

ok this may be completely off, but if anyone has heard of the idea of entanglement(the idea in quantum mechanics that to things can be so closely related that by changing a property on one thing you effect the other as well). If we apply this to the hint then perhaps the 'bots' are not the robots, but some sort of field element that releases the 'pasta' game piece.

[Travis Hoffman]

I've found the key to unlocking the mystery of "shovel's show"! Turns out they're talking about a TV show....

http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2....cid=80488&fp=F


What....it wasn't obvious to you guys????

[Francis-134]

Originally Posted by T. Hoffman

I've found the key to unlocking the mystery of "shovel's show"! Turns out they're talking about a TV show....

http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2....cid=80488&fp=F


What....it wasn't obvious to you guys????

Looks like Lavery's animation robots are looking more and more realistic every day .

[Billfred]

After a bit of mediation, what goes well with pasta?

Meatballs.

All of a sudden, I'm getting scary visions of us having to retrieve balls from a big area littered with ropes or noodles or something.

[Bill_Hancoc]

Originally Posted by Safarley2901

It wouldn't have anything to do with snow or ice, look at where the regionals are.

You can't have snow or ice, at a regional. You realize how fast it would melt? For anyone that has been to a regional they should realize that ice isn't even a feasible idea.

Living in michigan it gets pretty cold outdoor reginal??? I was at the Monster jam and they had a halftime show with snowmobiles and despite being ^of 80 degrees in there the snow was there in entirity the whole time.

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

I think someone might have been on to it in the other post when they mentioned Joe Montana.

the clue mentions "Seeing Montana's Green Heights " well Joe Montana played at Notre Dame and played in a green jersey Number 3. Instead of saying we are seeing an object maybe seeing would be more of an adjective describing Montana and in his green jersey some heights he accomplished. He did win 4 superbowls, was inducted into the hall of fame recently. ( 2000 I believe? )

I havn't found any of his great achievments while he was at notre dame but maybe his actual physical height has something to do with it.

Maybe it means that there will be 3 green targets at some height on the field in which we have to place the pasta.

Still trying to figure out what they are telling us :-) Its a different point of view .. discuss :-)

I think that Stud Man Dan is on to sumption here, look back at the post about decoding the '05 hint
especially the part about the name of the game and the history of it. The FIRST hint comittee may be leading something historic with this part.

For the montana part i am guessing that there will be something large similer the the center goal last year that will block the view of the other side of the field, i dont know what leads me to think this but i just do.

[EricH]

Bringing Dave's hints in as well:
"five 'bots tangling with pasta" Analysis: There will be five robots at a time. I don't know how, but possibly there are six with one off by itself.They will be tangling up in something-- this could go with the English Channel hint. Although "pasta" suggests spaghetti of some form, it may be sauce, because you almost never see it without sauce.

"a game piece obsessed with a shovel's show" Analysis: First, you have to figure out what a shovel's show is. Personally, I think it might be the shovel's handle, which would put batons into the game. I am most likely wrong on this.

"and seeing Montana's green heights" Analysis: First, seeing, particularly seeing green. I think there will be a return of the cmucam. Montana has mountains, so there will likely be a ramp to go over, possibly green. Green: possibly three alliances with green being the third. Green heights: possibly forested hills, so there may be a "forest" of batons (or something) on said ramp. Worse yet, a game piece that can see.

OK, enough speculating. I'll leave for now before my brain is totally fried. We'll see what they've got for us in two weeks!

[Bill Moore]

A good description of "shovel logging" is here. In particular, look at the description of the serpentine path the logger takes on very steep slopes (near the bottom).

http://web.cocc.edu/logging/szlinks/shovellog.htm

[Alex Burman]

Originally Posted by Bill_Hancoc

For the montana part i am guessing that there will be something large similer the the center goal last year that will block the view of the other side of the field, i dont know what leads me to think this but i just do.

rocky mountains
essentially
cuts off the west coast from the rest
so possibly not being able to play defense
or maybe just one way over to the other side?
potential strategy to block the one way so your opponents cant inter fear

[CmptrGk]

five 'bots tangling with pasta

i dont really want to say this, but could the bots be driven by tethers again?

[21:14] <Friend1> montana's green heights
[21:14] <Friend2> the shovel has me stumped
[21:14] <Friend1> probably evergreen aka xmas tree
[21:15] <CmptrGk> so, something could get stacked on a tall object
[21:15] <Friend1> star on a tree
[21:15] <Friend1> but the game piece i dont see
[21:15] <Friend1> unless its an ornament

maybe there will be tall scoring structure(perhaps green), with something that needs to be placed on the top. and then smaller objects would need to be hung on it in the middle.

[aztech75]

if i had to make a guess about the shovel part of the clue i would go back to some of the previous theory's. Every1 was talkin abou the new traction wheels from IFI so it could have something 2 do with a slick surface (when it snow it gets slipery and shovels remove snow) on the field. Deffinently not ice or snow, but some kind of plastic like on the ramp in 03.

but im prolly way off

[viking1902]

Originally Posted by CmptrGk

i dont really want to say this, but could the bots be driven by tethers again?

i've got it!! this year's game is going to be just like "Maize Craze" except instead of corn kernels its going to be a bunch of ziti and spaghetti!