Game Hint #1

[commodoredl]

Originally Posted by ironbears

well this seems like a waste of time, has anyone actually ever gotten a clue right before and gave them an advantage?

07 someone was able to take the picture and figure out that the game piece was an inner tube. I don't remember if that proved it or if everyone continued guessing, the thread was way too long in the end to bother reading all the way through.
In most cases even if you did figure out the hint you wouldn't have any proof that you were correct so it wouldn't make a difference.

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by ironbears

well this seems like a waste of time, has anyone actually ever gotten a clue right before and gave them an advantage?

waste of time? Blasphemy!


BTW this is a appears to be a male of the species

[EricH]

Originally Posted by IndySam

BTW this is a appears to be a male of the species

Put it in the box... http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ight=mailboxes

[Ryan_Todd]

Interesting goodies start halfway down the following Webster's page on Lampris Guttatus:
http://www.websters-dictionary-onlin...mpris+Guttatus

A few highlights:

Pig Latin = amprislay uttatusgay.

Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-l-m-p-r-s-s-t-t-t-u-u"
-3 letters: gutturalisms.
-4 letters: gutturalism, pragmatists.
-5 letters: marsupials, mutualists, pragmatist, sugarplums.

Hexadecimal = 4C 61 6D 70 72 69 73 47 75 74 74 61 74 75 73

Binary = 01001100 01100001 01101101 01110000 01110010 01101001 01110011 00100000 01000111 01110101 01110100 01110100 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110011

HTML = &#76 &#97 &#109 &#112 &#114 &#105 &#115 &#32 &#71 &#117 &#116 &#116 &#97 &#116 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 = 004C 0061 006D 0070 0072 0069 0073 0047 0075 0074 0074 0061 0074 0075 0073



Additionally, an online anagram finder @ wordsmith.org found exactly 66667 possible anagrams!
Link for first 1000 only:
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram...uttatus&t=1000
Link for all: (Beware, it takes a long time to load)
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=Lampris+Guttatus&language=engl ish&t=0&d=&include=&exclude=&n=&m=&source=adv&a=n& l=n&q=n&k=1

[Rick TYler]

I don't have the stamina right now to read the whole thread, so just a question -- did someone also suggest that the name "moonfish" and rounded shape of the fish might suggest a disk-shaped game component? Robot Ultimate Frisbee, anyone?

[Anna B.]

going with the whole morphology thing, if it is applicable in so many areas, maybe there will be multiple areas for the robots to do different things?

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

I don't have the stamina right now to read the whole thread, so just a question -- did someone also suggest that the name "moonfish" and rounded shape of the fish might suggest a disk-shaped game component? Robot Ultimate Frisbee, anyone?

Flying fish?

1902, want to jump on in here?

Flying fish... geez.

Edit: hey, they do flap their way through the water...

[cdennisxlx2]

Originally Posted by Skywalkar

Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-l-m-p-r-s-s-t-t-t-u-u"
-3 letters: gutturalisms.
-4 letters: gutturalism, pragmatists.
-5 letters: marsupials, mutualists, pragmatist, sugarplums.

3, 4, 5 ... anyone?

how about a triangle? or to be more specific a right triangle.

just thought i would throw that into the mix

[Nin_estarSaerah]

I'm sitting here drinking eggnog, listening to Christmas carols, watching a roaring fire, mulling over game hints. The holidays are here!

Well, its too obvious that it would be a game hint, unless they want us to think its too obvious, we're being toyed with.

Acording to Wikipedia's in pop culture "On one episode of the Food Network show Iron Chef America, opah was chosen as the secret ingredient. A clip from this battle provided a memorable moment when Iron Chef Mario Batali jokingly danced with a whole opah en route to his station in the beginning of the program.

Currently being used as the first game hint of the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition."

Maybe our robots have to cook.

Lampris guttatus . Lampris, greek for brilliant or clear, guttatus, latin for spotted or speckled. a contradiction?

Another anagram is Alarmist Gust Put. its a golf windmill.

well, thats my two cents for now.

p.s. yes, its a waste of time, but i'd rather waste time on this than on anything else.

[pentau]

Two things to add that may/may not be helpful.

This anagram generator is backed by a dictionary, so it might be easier to sort through the possibilities:

http://www.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/cgi-bi...amprisguttatus

It seems that they searched for moonfish instead of Opah. Is there any deeper meaning?

http://images.google.com/images?q=moonfish

[Ryan Dognaux]

Everyone is reading way too much into this. The game piece is clearly a bunch of Opahs this year. Problem solved, case closed. Start designing your fish handling robots now.

[smstarkiller]

hey fish are really slimy and hard to grip maby the game peice is 2.

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by smstarkiller

hey fish are really slimy and hard to grip maby the game peice is 2.

Or maybe the field is slippery, ha.

[Nin_estarSaerah]

I think that the ideas of a lunar landscape are most likely

perhaps its a game where we have to "fish" for mechanical fish. like this:

http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/...go-fishing.jpg

[b3t4_2836]

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Spec...ry.php?id=1072

Did anyone else notice the word "TUBE" in the order section? Maybe carrying tubes again, or going through them like tunnels.

Also with the scanned idea. since one fish is in one direction and the shadow is in the other maybe a reversal go direction?


I liked the moon idea with the uneven playing field. Or a round playing field.