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Re: Serious the Real hint

to me the backgroud looks just like water...
so my guess is that the game is going to involve water, or a water object(tubes, noodles, inflatable whales, ect)

and i think that there might be 5 seperate areas where you can score points(they'll probably be dimond plated) each might be seperate hights(1= lowest, 5=tallest)then the 1 platform would = the least amount of points and so on.
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Re: Serious the Real hint

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Round plate with a five on it. What's round and comes in fives? Olympic Rings! What ring would make an excellent gamepiece? Hmmm.....

Aerobies, in Centennial Olympic Park, anyone?
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Re: Serious the Real hint

According to Wikipedia, the fifth state to ratify the constitution was Connecticut, but I have no idea what that could do with the game... Personally, the flying disk idea is the best so far.
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Is it just me, or does the blue background have a ripple reflection pattern, indicative of something like WATER? :-P

Either that, or it's some kind of lighting effect - kinda like the light from a blue cold cathode vision target.....

I'm all for diamond plate as a field material - gives us an excuse to get more to build a new controls carrying box this year.

The filename of the picture is "2007Clue1.jpg", which leads me to believe other clues could be posted later, or that in the very least, other clue photos exist.
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Re: Serious the Real hint

Sooooo, here is my idea. Although, for what it's worth, it seems like in previous years the hints have been pretty abstract. The picture looks like the closeup of a pool ball, as in the game of pool. Also recall earlier in the year an unofficial clue was floating around (punny!) that showed a robot in an aquarium type environment; which could also be interpreted as a "pool"

The only problem I have with my guess is that it isn't abstract enough, but I am guessing....

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Re: Serious the Real hint

Well, I've got some opinions about the picture.

It is obviously a screen capture from Dave's animation.

It looks like a close up of a field element with some fun wavy action going on in the background that is irrelevant other than the blue to indicate the alliance for which this particular game element is for.

It seems to me that the reason we don't see the whole diamond plate circle is because it is mounted on something, possibly a vertical pole.

The diamond plate is a perfect circle, not oblong or anything.

If the scale of the diamonds in this render are to scale of real diamond plate (which they probably aren't), I would say that the circle is about 2 feet in diameter.

Also, I think I see a human player on the far right, along with the standard field railing.

As for the '5', I believe it is the point value for whatever the task relating to the the diamond plate circle is. If you remember in 2004, all of the balls were labeled according to point value.
This is supported by the fact that when you crank up the brightness or contrast on the image, you can see the outline of the diamonds, just as you would see if they had vinyl over the diamond plate.
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Take Five

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If so, a game based upon a robotic light theater such as the one created at UT-Austin would make for some crazy wild autonomuos scripting trying to follow these lights.

Take5 feature on Robotic Lights

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Re: Serious the Real hint

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to me the backgroud looks just like water...
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Looks like this stuff http://www.xoxide.com/primoflex-12id-34od-uvblue.html to me?
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Re: Serious the Real hint

I bet in 3 day game hint 2 will come and it will be the # 4

15 /5 =3 ???
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Re: Take Five

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Could the name of the game be Take Five

If so, a game based upon a robotic light theater such as the one created at UT-Austin would make for some crazy wild autonomuos scripting trying to follow these lights.

Take5 feature on Robotic Lights

Low Res Movie of the robotic light theatre
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Re: Serious the Real hint

My thoughts:

If you look at the blue section of the photo it is obvious that you are looking at a reflection off of an object. The way that the image is skewed show that the object is rounded with a hole in the middle, much like an inner tube.


example ne I made



the next part of this is the number 5, since this is an anniversary year for first you start at year 1992 and add 5, 1997. In 1997 the game was called Torroid Terror and teams "human players score points by placing the inner tubes onto pegs on the goal, or around the top of the goal. The tubes are color-coded to identify team ownership."

You heard it here first folks, inner tubes it is. Personally I think Dave did this just so he could persuade Krispy Kremes to be a sponsor.
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Re: Serious the Real hint

Could 5 be a path or a trough. Remember Dave Lavery's other hints, such as this one?
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Re: Serious the Real hint

i also see rings surrounding the dimond plate circle, maybe ripples, just another posible water hint

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Re: Serious the Real hint

lol what a clue.

i bet even they don't know what they're trying to say.

5 can mean anything....5 player-each-team match?

Metal floor?

blue background(?)

wow they should give us some real hints...
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Re: Serious the Real hint

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or... 500LB WEIGHT LIMIT????

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No. The shipping rules released the other day clearly stated the crate could weigh no more than 400 lbs.

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According to Wikipedia, the fifth state to ratify the constitution was Connecticut, but I have no idea what that could do with the game...
Where's this game get it's inspiration?
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ROBO-POOL!!!
Pool Yes, but not the kind you are thinking.

I'm waiting for the other hint pics to be released, and guessing one will have a Large 2 on a diamond plate piece and an Orange background.


By the way: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...3&postcount=10

That is a round object with diamond plate on the bottom. Just something to ponder. VEX game influence maybe?
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