Woodie's Game Hint @ Atlanta

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

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

Andy B.

ut-oh

[EricH]

He has a point. Dave has been almost suspiciously quiet this year. Maybe he's learned something, though--looking back at the 2006 game hint thread (for Dave's hints), it's scary how close we came to figuring out the game. Worse, he almost gave it away, but nobody thought to see why he was picking on someone else.

I'd suspect that Woodie gave an unofficial red herring, and Dave's silence is another.

[edit] I took a look, and he has dropped a few possible "hints", but I only found about three or four. None is particularly obvious.[/edit]

[JaneYoung]

Well, whatever the reason for Dave's semi-silence, it has saved us all from some really bad pun-ishment from Mr. Cokely.

[cobrawanabe1699]

IMO....
The gerbils will be FAKE jello. In fact, they will be small, self-sufficient robots. Your autonomous mode must chase them down and crush them. For the game, each robot must build a robot gerbil using nothing but a microSD card, two bendy (oooooh....bennnnnndyyyy...) straws, and a toothpick. and half an omni wheel. And for the top 8 (aka Buzz and whoever they let in with them...), a paper clip. The lift wiil involve balancing a robot in a stack of 47 gerbil robots. the stack must be at least 15 feet high, and no more than three inches wide. Good luck. The balance will have 7 seconds to be completed. May the nerd force be with you.

[MarySheridan]

k'nex doesn't come in blocks

[dr1008]

Originally Posted by Pavan

At 16:11 into MorTorq TV's 5th Episode Woodie tells us,

"Just be careful about the stock market, with jello, gerbils, and K'nex blocks."

Start guessing guys!

i personally think that this hint just means that we will be using a square as a game piece. stock market, the building is a square. jello, are cut into squares. gerbil cages are squares, and K'nex blocks are squares too.

[synth3tk]

What the heck, K'nex don't have blocks, do they?

[vivek16]

maybe they make blocks out of knex peices?

-vivek

[Tetraman]

Maybe Dave hasn't been speaking much cause his mouth full of dounuts?

I guess it is time for Woodie to start having a little fun with us, messing with our minds.

[synth3tk]

I don't care if the President held a State of the Union addressing what the game might be, I need something to feed my crave now!!!

[vivek16]

hmm... maybe if we offer dave donuts he will put us out of our misery(give us a hint dave... not kill us... lol.. not really... its wayy past my bedtime... im sleeping now...)

-vivek

[basicxman]

lol...im always staying up past my bedtime

[Pavan Dave]

To be honest I hate these threads before the game hint is released but I thought it would be a good laugh to see some of you guys' responses so I started this. Many of you are just saying the first thing that pops into your mind. THIS is one of the ONLY plausible interpretations so far in this thread IMO.

Originally Posted by dr1008

i personally think that this hint just means that we will be using a square as a game piece. stock market, the building is a square. jello, are cut into squares. gerbil cages are squares, and K'nex blocks are squares too.

I am expecting squares.

[vivek16]

Originally Posted by Pavan

To be honest I hate these threads before the game hint is released but I thought it would be a good laugh to see some of you guys' responses so I started this. Many of you are just saying the first thing that pops into your mind. THIS is one of the ONLY plausible interpretations so far in this thread IMO.

I am expecting squares.

yeah.... or we could spend every waking moment analyzing this phrase until we get something from it like: robots will carry donuts made of jello or the like

-vivek

p.s. yeah I think that the cuboid theory is the most plausible.

[Spylake]

Originally Posted by blakcheez

What the heck, K'nex don't have blocks, do they?

I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if it was just his way of identifying the Kinex toys, as in, the pieces are a form of the generic "building blocks" concept?

After all, what else would you call them?

Kinex sticks?

I'm giving my team a head start with what I know about jello. I'll share it here after they have had a few days to mull it over.

Hint you have to be old to remember this bit of trivia.

I think what I have to share will shake things up. Maybe Woody wasn't expecting someone my age to be pondering his clues.