**FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #3

[Rohith Surampudi]

well after saying i wouldnt get involved in this madness, here we go

Copley square
....................... Finish line of the Boston Marathon courtesy of Alex Burman
....................... Tortoise and the Hare statues
....................... The track on the top of the building near hint 2
....................... Vet is a horse racing term of some sort... look it up, im too lazy to
.......................IR sensors are used in Ski races and things of that nature



Ladies and Gentlemen, we're off to the races...

[Conor Ryan]

Originally Posted by Rohith Surampudi

well after saying i wouldnt get involved in this madness, here we go

Copley square
....................... Finish line of the Boston Marathon courtesy of Alex Burman
....................... Tortoise and the Hare statues
....................... The track on the top of the building near hint 2
....................... Vet is a horse racing term of some sort... look it up, im too lazy to
.......................IR sensors are used in Ski races and things of that nature



Ladies and Gentlemen, we're off to the races...

That's pretty comprehensive, but remember we have an IR camera, we do all of that in Autonomous. Then we start the real games. (but Autonomous will be emphasized more than ever before, at least, if the camera is easy as they say it is to program)

[Big Kid]

Hey people don't you think it is werid that in the two thousand and four FIRSTthe robots a had to lift itself up on to a hurdle like object. Where the vet comes in im not sure yet.

[Scott Carpman]

Originally Posted by Rohith Surampudi

Ladies and Gentlemen, we're off to the races...

I wouldn't bet on it. Speed will lead to collisions, which will increase the overall amount of disabeld bots across the board. I don't think the GRC would have us racing just yet.

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by robotcanuck1676

Unfortunately, it's a Mac that the school gives out and I can't install anything. If you know any way to decrypt files in Preview, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks anyways though.

Depending on how old it is (seeing that its from your school it could be a bit outdated), preview will just show the PDF blanked out by a red background and a text box to input the decryption key... It works fine for me.

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Scott Carpman

I wouldn't bet on it. Speed will lead to collisions, which will increase the overall amount of disabeld bots across the board. I don't think the GRC would have us racing just yet.

Care to explain 2001 to me then? Yeah...

[AndyB]

Originally Posted by Joe Matt

Care to explain 2001 to me then? Yeah...

Or 2002, remember Beatty getting smashed? or 2003, the hellish battle for the middle... 06 had a bit of shoving as well...

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by AndyB

Or 2002, remember Beatty getting smashed? or 2003, the hellish battle for the middle... 06 had a bit of shoving as well...

nothing wrong with a little robot-robot action.... now only if they would let us have wedges back

(I can dream can't I??)

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by AndyB

Or 2002, remember Beatty getting smashed? or 2003, the hellish battle for the middle... 06 had a bit of shoving as well...

I was saying the racing bit, but yeah, that works too!

[AndyB]

Originally Posted by Joe Matt

I was saying the racing bit, but yeah, that works too!

The definition of end game is pretty much a race. Especially in 03, 05, 06, and 07

[Turtlecoach]

Bet we see tetra's, squares & circles(balls) out on the field. IR signals will tell us which where they have to go. Need to think of designs for multiple different objects .........agggggggggggggghhhhhhhhh

[Justin Montois]

Interesting Anagrams keeping FIRST together.....

First Dangle Rivet(Tightly Held) Truth

First Granted Evil Truth (Water Game)

First Advent Ruler Tight

First Tundra Lever Tight

First Relevant Dig Truth

First Gauntlet Third Rev

A divergent truth flirts

This Link is REALLY cool, The Anagram Hall Of Fame

[Ian Curtis]

In an earlier thread, people were talking about temporary IR walls. Look at the Middle English definition for hurdle...

Originally Posted by thefreedictionary.com

Middle English hurdel, portable panel for temporary fences

[MaxS]

Maybe we can divine this year's competition by looking at hints of past years:

Originally Posted by the Game Design Committee

2005: "While wearing Amethyst colored glasses, John Neun gave George Burns the following riddle: 'Look closely and you will see something between Pi, You and Me.'"

Triple Play involved stacking giant tetrahedrons in a game of tic-tac-toe. I wasn't involved back then, so I don't really know that much.

Originally Posted by The same people, presumably

2006:
"five 'bots tangling with pasta
a game piece obsessed with a shovel's show
and seeing Montana's green heights"

Aim High involved launching foam balls (meatballs?) at targets, represented with green lights ("Montana's green heights"). The shovel could refer either to a robot shoving balls into the lower goals or to ball-collection device.

2007:

The game involved placing inflatable tubes on long "spider-legs," each of which ended with one of the pictured circles representing the column.

Originally Posted by frcteams@usfirst.org

2008:
Hint #1: An IR reciever
Hint #2: Three numbers (see discussion here)
Hint #3: "Vet hurdling FIRST tetra"

Anyone see a pattern here?

[keen101]

I think clue number two is a metaphor for something to do with navigation.


So I think we will have something with three sides (v-e-t) three letter word. numbers. (tetra) tree sided object. Three numbers (clue #2)


...maybe throw a three sided object over hurdles... while using navigation.....