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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

I bet after reading these over the years, Dave is never disappointed with the way his clues are dissected. It really is amazing to me how people will comb the internet fore the Montana State Flag and decipher whats on it in an attempt to figure out the game. i think this clue is a great way to get people excited about the upcoming season. Its like The Budweiser Shootout at Daytona is for NASCAR or the Draft is for the NFL. It sure is getting people on here excited.
Anyway, the CLUE!

-Doubt Pool Noodles(Too Obvious)
Same with Five Bots, too obvious. Granted the GDC knew that a simple search for the baseball players last year would reveal Triple play and you could say that that was too obvious so who knows.
Montana, Could be Joe Montana but I think that if they wanted to say something about football, they would have said it differently. I think there will be an uneven field again this year, even if nothing in the clue supports it, people like seeing robots have to go up stairs and ramps.
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

i think we were on to something with the backgammon link..

perhaps a platform in the center with room for only 5 of 6 robots?

i'm going to wait till kick off lol...
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

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perhaps a platform in the center with room for only 5 of 6 robots?
Maybe something like the game musical chairs, where there are enough for everyone except one?
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

I think I will stick with a slippery surface due to http://www.ifirobotics.com/robot-traction-wheels.shtml.... I don't know about the clues though
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

I had a rush of caffeine in me two nights ago and had thee dry erase boards filled with theories. Some were nutty but a few make sense. Camera, hill, etc.

I was typing up an ad to sell a book i didn't need anymore. Look at the clue from a grammar teacher's perspective. Rearranging some of the words and their meanings made a lot of sense.
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

I think that the surface of the hill or raised part of the field will be very slippery

4 the rest of the clues I have no clue except that the cam is back. Yeah people are going to love this .
well good luck 2 everyone and I hope this year is fun and we Win again
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

at this point, after so much speculation, most of the ideas have been exhausted...i'm inlclined to just wait the 8 days. of course, someone might come up with another brilliant idea, and blow the whole thing wide open..who knows
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

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of course, someone might come up with another brilliant idea, and blow the whole thing wide open..who knows
I'm ready to add another dimension into the mix.

Montana not only rhymes with banana (referring to the 2007 game hint picture again) but also bananas are grown in Montana.
edit:not as widely as I thought they were, more hobbyist than mass production.

Also, in the state of Montana there is a abnormally warm area in the state known as the Banana Belt.
edit: relatively warm, again not warm enough to grow bananas for mass production.

The Bitterroot valley is referred to as the "Banana Belt" of Montana due to the frequent mild winters. The valley’s extremely mild "banana belt" climate is attributable to the mountain ranges that bound and protect it. They include the Highland, McCartney, Green Horn, Gravely, Tobacco Root, and Ruby Mountains.


What do I see referring back to that 3rd line of the clue?

"Montana's green" Horn Mountain.

But, as I stated before, the word green, or more appropriately greenhorn, means
  1. An inexperienced or immature person, especially one who is easily deceived.
  2. A newcomer, especially one who is unfamiliar with the ways of a place or group.
Other references to the Greenhorn Mountain Range include the Heights, or highest points, in the case being Sheep Mountain (9697 ft) , Baldy Mountain (9621 ft), and Horse Hill (7894 ft) All located in Madison County, MT.
http://nris.mt.gov/gis/requests/tallpeaks.html

Does the Madison County reference mean the game will have a bridge of some kind in it?

I'm done for a while.

Have fun analyzing.

edit: received some info from a fellow CD cruiser who is a Horticulturist by Degree telling me of some discrepancies.
Fixed them.
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

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I'm ready to add another dimension into the mix.

must you always prove me wrong Elgin?

I love the "Montanta's Green" Horn Mountain part..that's REALLY interesting...i'm wondering how much stuff we're finding in here that wasn't intended by the GDC, but ends up being relevant somehow anyways...
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Banana Belt .. i bet that is the games name
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

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Banana Belt .. i bet that is the games name
hmm reminds me of "Maize Craze"....i hope we're not driving through a banana plantation...
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

My family, some team members and I have been thinking about this hint for some time and one of the things my mother actually came up with was that maybe since the game piece has to be obsessed with something maybe it is animate like a house-bot type thing that FIRST would build and that is why it is five bots. 2 v 2 v 1 autonomous bot game piece.

Considering the thing about greenhorn the new robot would be a new comer to FIRST since it has never happened before.
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My family, some team members and I have been thinking about this hint for some time and one of the things my mother actually came up with was that maybe since the game piece has to be obsessed with something maybe it is animate like a house-bot type thing that FIRST would build and that is why it is five bots. 2 v 2 v 1 autonomous bot game piece.

Considering the thing about greenhorn the new robot would be a new comer to FIRST since it has never happened before.
Read the thread. This is old news. There were even pictures of a "house bot" or placebo. It has happened multiple times in the past. I highly doubt that we will have one, particularly since the original purpose is no longer valid.
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

Ughhh.. I hope someone is taking all this in cause I just can't step away from this riddle.

It's like the season, FIRST seems to take over my life.

Oh well, it's better than other things taking over my life.

Anyways....

Even more info for everyone to analyze.

In the game Texas Hold-Em Poker, the following nicknames are pretty interesting.

Holding a 9 & 2 = "Montana Banana" or "Twiggy" or "Golf Bag"
Holding a 9 & 4 = "Joe Montana Banana" or "San Fransisco"
http://www.texasholdem-poker.com/hand_nicknames.php


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Holding a 9 & 2 = "Montana Banana" or "Twiggy" or "Golf Bag"
Holding a 9 & 4 = "Joe Montana Banana" or "San Fransisco"
http://www.texasholdem-poker.com/hand_nicknames.php
Ok, if that's a coincidence...i can't even describe how whack that would be

Maybe all the GDC people each come up with a game, and then play Hold 'Em to decide which game we play?
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