Woodie's Game Hint @ Atlanta

[65_Xero_Huskie]

The game next year will involve stacking gamepieces ON your robot for points.
I have a good feeling on it.

[SuperJake]

Clearly, from the past game "hints" you have to think more about objects/concepts that relate closely with the item/concept mentioned. Thus, there will not be any gerbils or stock markets, but something relating to them.

Now, pairing this logic with everyone's obsession with water.. I propose this: The robot will have to 'suck' water from something that resembles a gerbil's watering thing... i.e. your robot will have to push something to receive water. You'll then presumably have to water a banana tree or something so Dave can finally resolve his banana craze. The stock market reference may be a new way of randomizing the robot pairings. Your QPs (or some other quantifier) would be "invested" in the team pool. Then the match pairings would occur on the fly based upon your teams "worth" in the team market.

I'm not sure about the K'nex, but they may become an acceptable building material for small assemblies. It would be cool to see teams building a custom camera mount using K'nex or something. Perhaps the manipulator that activates the water would have to be K'nex.

Have fun with that!

[whytheheckme]

I'm skeptical about the K'nex... Isn't Lego, like, a big sponsor or something like that?



Jacob

[Grant Cox]

I'm thinking next year, you will have to catch something with your robot.

Dunno why.

Just a feeling.

[Dreadfrost]

My first impression was maybe stacking objects that have similar properties of jello. and the jello stacks go up but also come down easily. However that seems to close to triple play. A hint also lies in the first logo. If you notice Triple play used triangles, aim high and rack and roll are all circle based, and then next year should be squares i think. The gerbils i really dont understand but the stock market he mentions to watch out for so the danger of the stock market is can go down quickly and enexpectedly so i think theres going to be somthing interesting next year.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Dreadfrost

A hint also lies in the first logo. If you notice Triple play used triangles, aim high and rack and roll are all circle based, and then next year should be squares i think.

Please..... for all our sake... not again.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Please..... for all our sake... not again.

wonder if anyone would be interested in linking to some of the discussions regarding past hints...

[Uberbots]

i think we are going to have to be building something around an unstable object to prevent it from crashing...

[Qbranch]

Maybe it might be some kind of high level manipulator based game... k-nex have to do with building things so maybe we're building something out of pieces available on field, like stack attack only with more of a purpose to the stacking. Maybe some kind of very loose tolearance speed rail/pvc or something...

Jello and gerbils.... maybe it will be like the hangtime thing in the 2004? (unsure) game? if you can get on the gerbil wheel you get bonus or something.

The jello.... eh... well in '06 they talked about spaghetti so maybe it has something to do with... with... ahh heck I don't know.

-q

[JesseK]

Spaghetti = Arms/Manipulators maybe?

[Spammy Badame]

Okay here's what they're gonna do:

They are going to put each robot in a giant hamster cage. We've got to be able to build something so the robot can climb it's way out. At the end of the game, we climb up on something for extra points. And the drivers and operators eat jello while the human players throw ticker tape at the robots. It explains everything!

I think it will involve monkeys.

[seanl]

Originally Posted by Jaybee1405

I think it will involve monkeys.

?..wow that was random but monkeys would be cool

[Schnabel]

Obviously these clues are not real and the FIRST Game Design comity is planting false clues in our head to make us think about it. They just want to see how much space we can waste on CD.

[nc963y]

What, no mention of a water game? '

Maybe we have to teach gerbils to swim in jello....