Woodie's Game Hint @ Atlanta

[Katusha]

What do gerbils, jello, and knex have in common???

They all come in boxes?!?!

So i think that it's obvious that the game piece has to be square.
That's all for now.

Team 168 Board.

[Mrpalmere]

Looking back at previous games, the clue from this spring is typical and not very telling. One can observe though that in 2003, a stackable box or the 3d square, 2004 a game with balls or a 3d circle, 2005 tetras on tetras or 3d triangle, 2006 back to ball -3d circle, 2007 tubes, a special 3d circle in 2 directions.......WOW here is my guess.....

A combination of two of the components of the FIRST logo like.....

circle and square yield a cylinder or column or pool noodle.......cylindrical object

circle and triangle yields a cone shaped object like a traffic cone (which has a square base) yielding the use of all three components.........

cool huh?

[synth3tk]

A lot of people insist on the traffic cone theory which I like, though has nothing to do with the clues. But that doesn't mean we're not due for it. It'd be challenging and fun at the same time. Who knows?

[basicxman]

Originally Posted by Sgt. Mammoth

Hmmm the Stock Market goes up and down... as does a gerbil wheel... possibly some sort of ferris wheel structure on the field that rotates constantly? Some sort of wiggly jello-like game piece must be placed on this rotating structure and points are received for the amount of time in the ferris-wheel-thing (like a stock market investment).

i agree except think the ferris wheel will wobble (like the rack was on chains and could freely move) and the game piece will be something that could hook onto a ferris wheel

[Tetraman]

Someone should start a thread that is a rumor mill of Who will spill next year's big rumor and what that rumor would be.

[robochick1319]

I'm really excited to hear a clue this early but I am kind of suspicious. Usually these clues come after Christmas so I can't help but wonder if this is simply a distraction rather than the real deal.

Also, (not to burst y'all's bubble) there will probably never be any game involving any type of water because:
1) It will cost too much to have each arena equipped with such capabilities

2) It will take too much maintenance to take care of a field covered with water (Let's not forget the poof balls that kept shredding and eventually lost their structural integrity)

3) You are not even supposed to drink water around a robot. Imagine a task dealing with water. The safety issues are through the roof! The complications are far too many.

I can't tell you much about this game, but there will not be water and if there is, as a safety captain, I may need some water to keep from hyperventilatiing.

[MarySheridan]

They all have to do with boxes.

take the gerbil to start with
-between his bones are cartiledge, that cartiledge is made into jello
-jello then is served to consumers in a cardboard box manufactured by the same company that makes those for the k'nex boxes
-k'nex is owned by mattell, whose stocks are for sale in the stock market

my friend told me that. i'm thinking that the next challanges has to do with boxes

[synth3tk]

robochick1319: http://www.h2orobots.org/

But it's still unlikely that FIRST will have a competition for water.

[BanksKid]

Originally Posted by vivek16

haha i think it might be a better stragedy to just leave the gerbils alone.


for me i think in autonomous you have to hook your roboti up to te internet and make it choose 5 stocks that will earn it exactly 500.32 dollars

then it has to teleport the jello back to the human player at which point the human player must eat it using only the 3 foot long forks he has fashioned from the knex blocks

vivek

are the roboti anything like the illuminati of the robot "free" masons?

[vivek16]

I dont think this has to do much withthe game hint but I personally am rooting for the return of some form of cuboid. I know there is no pattern to the games but my gut tells me to expect cuboids.

JMHO, vivek

[alex1699]

i think we got to make a robot go thewe tubes so i think something has t odo with tubes

[Rick-906]

What if the game involves tossing some smallish item at a wall covered in little spinning doors, and each door has two colors, your goal being to spin it to your teams color. this would be an interesting to come up with an autonomous mode for.
I'm not too sure how it relates to the hint but i have found past hints to be so incredibly cryptic that they serve more to throw you off then anything.

i base this guess off the fact that a local robotics competition is using something similar... and last year their game also involved tubes... so maybe there is some strange relation

[Blue_2220]

Well my team 2220 Blue Twilight is very suspicious of woodies hint we don't know what to think I have heard some good ideas but we don't know where to start, its even worse then last years hint but I am sure it will all make sense when the regionals come

[hipsterjr]

Woody and Dave have been quite....too quite. Usally they chime in by now. But I'm starting to get worried, lol.

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by hipsterjr

Woody and Dave have been quite....too quite. Usally they chime in by now. But I'm starting to get worried, lol.

Woodie never posts on these forums, so don't expect anything here from him. He is a reader only.

Dave, on the other hand, is due for some hints.

Andy B.