2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[Mike Starke]

I think there is way too little information to determine anything. This thread has turned into what we want to see in this year's game, rather than what we really think the game is. Let's all be patient, and either wait for another clue, or wait until kickoff.

[Tapoore]

Try changing the URL of the clue link. Change the "?id=3720" part to another number.

[Warren Boudreau]

This is really a stumper. I have a question. Why is the diamondplate circle truncated at the top and bottom of the picture?

[Fireworks 234]

Originally Posted by Warren Boudreau

This is really a stumper. I have a question. Why is the diamondplate circle truncated at the top and bottom of the picture?

I would have to say that it is truncated because it is a screen shot from a video, like they said earlier. And that it is in motion towards the center of the screen, like a camera was zooming out.

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by mannaman

I think there is way too little information to determine anything. This thread has turned into what we want to see in this year's game, rather than what we really think the game is. Let's all be patient, and either wait for another clue, or wait until kickoff.

Why be patient? It's more fun SWAGing it.

[Chief Samwize]

Darn my internet crashing, I had to read 23 pages before i could post.
My take on the clue has to deal with music,
-After 5 years in band and learning the circle of 5ths I have determined that with the circle of 5ths the fifth sharp in order is E which is the 5th letter in the alphabet. With music seeming so significant I feel a musical chairs kind of game coming on but insted of music the lights determine when to go and when not to go, like a stoplight which was found in both the official and non offical clue. As for diamond plate I see something like goals which can be scored in, 5 of them of cource. I couldalso see them being numbered with 4 goals, numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4, surrounding the most valuable 5th goal, which can be moved so that the team with control of the goal at the end would recieve a bonus.

[Molly Stieber]

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

But what I did think was running off the Baseball Idea. Within the diamond, you have 6 players involved. ( this does not include the outfield and the pitcher. ) You have the batter, 4 infielders and the catcher. 1 of these 6 players at all times stands at the plate, if the batter is not at the plate the game doesn't continue.
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What would the human player do, stand at the plate, or what?

[ewankoff]

phew 23 pages of reading over...

maybe bannans are the game piece and they have to be placed on the diamond plate?

[Rob2713g]

Originally Posted by Chief Samwize

Darn my internet crashing, I had to read 23 pages before i could post.
My take on the clue has to deal with music,
-After 5 years in band and learning the circle of 5ths I have determined that with the circle of 5ths the fifth sharp in order is E which is the 5th letter in the alphabet. With music seeming so significant I feel a musical chairs kind of game coming on but insted of music the lights determine when to go and when not to go, like a stoplight which was found in both the official and non offical clue. As for diamond plate I see something like goals which can be scored in, 5 of them of cource. I couldalso see them being numbered with 4 goals, numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4, surrounding the most valuable 5th goal, which can be moved so that the team with control of the goal at the end would recieve a bonus.

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Sometimes I find it easier to look at what something IS NOT to figure out what it is:

IS NOT:

• 5 robots on the field. There's enough of a problem with teams getting matches in now, and with all the new rookies this would make things worse.
• A reference to a prior years game. There are very few people left in FIRST who can think back that many years. Then again, there is a history section on the FIRST page

In another note, I see the same 3 colored "stop light" as I did in the bannana hint.




Does anyone else see the same?

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Thread created automatically to discuss this image in CD-Media.

When googling banana stoplight, I realized it strangely looks like an "E". The E could easily be made of pieces of PVC and be in different sizes, shapes, or colors.

[petek]

Dave posted he was listening to Voodoo Child (sic)

Lenny Kravitz was rumored to play Hendrix in a movie

5 was the title of Lenny's fifth album

Anyone have the album to play backward?

[Ted Boucher]

So the only clues I see that work perfectly together are the new pictures of a banana being hidden in the picture, the 5, and this one.

Originally Posted by Rob2713g

Sanddrag earlier stated he saw this also on the FIRST site:

The 5 picture was originally up and taken down yesterday, could this be a clue that FIRST plans on releasing later.

Now bananas squish and squash, and they are grow up high in trees (rise), and then you wash them before they go to market. Bananas can be picked in different numbers, but a bunch of 5 bananas is not an uncommon thing.

IF sanddrag saw an actual clue, and the banana is really what we think it is in that picture.... then my offical guess is that we will have to stack or unstack a game piece (I am guessing intertubes) from up high, that is in groups of 5.

As for the word wash, it could mean many things like To cause to undergo a swirling action, To flow over, against, or past, or An activity, action, or enterprise that yields neither marked gain nor marked loss. Either of these definitions could make for some interesting game play. Now if it is not the definition of the word it would be the action. As I said, you wash bananas before you go to market, the market could be a high up goal.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Can they at least be different colored illuminated inner tubes? CMON I need to be right here!

[aztec21]

Originally Posted by emmell

Johnny Bench, played catcher (my idol from grade school)

If you do remember from the first picture (i know it came early) there was a blue line, the infamous bananna thats on the same side as to robot, and fish... Now to the current clue where there is yet again the bananna and also the #5 and the #5 as stated as a basball player possbly (Johnny Bench) a CATCHER. Now lets think Fishing... Catcher of the fish aka: the robot, and the bananna being a slippery surface... Now if we have robots on both sides then its a catch game. Now ofcourse the camera will be back this year so possible periods that you can score during and others play defence? who knows but hey it could be fun

Sean / Adam

[JaneYoung]

The arm is going to wash the glass with sponges so the drive team can see more clearly

simple

[Athleticgirl389]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Can they at least be different colored illuminated inner tubes? CMON I need to be right here!

Yes they can!! Color is good haha