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Re: Game Hint #1

I say just rub some lemon on the picture of the fish and see what pops out.
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Re: Game Hint #1

I agree that the text is unimportant. One set of words I can make out is "deeply forked caudal" which merely refers to a feature of the fish, and is most likely a description on the next page that the scanner accidentally caught. Looking at data on the fish, it looks like it's not good at all at dealing with changes in its environment, and is very sensitive. This could be another global warming/impact lesson. Either that or we do, in fact, get to build 6 foot, 500 lb. robots.

And there's no way to clean up the text anymore than has already been done. Anyone tried running it through some steganography programs? It's unlikely it contains any hidden data as it's only 90 kilobytes, but it might be worth a try. The low quality and graininess lends itself to an opportunity for a seamless steganograph. My tests show it's a possible candidate for the jphide protocol with a 2.0 sensitivity scan. I'm attempting to confirm, but someone else with more advanced tools may be more successful.
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Re: Game Hint #1

lol good old game hints. as far as im concerned, it's going to be a rock paper scissors type deal. something more like the 2007 game then the 2008. something so simple like tic tac toe became the the massive intertube rack. they are going to take a really simple concept and make it into a massive game! im so excited!
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Re: Game Hint #1

We are going fishing...
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Re: Game Hint #1

the card game go fish, but in robot form.
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Re: Game Hint #1

Game involving triangles...look at the fins. Its pointless to sit here unless you have hours of time to analyze these "hints"

Haha, wish I had time. Good luck everyone!
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Re: Game Hint #1

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the card game go fish, but in robot form.
Well, since the robots can communicate with each other via wifi, i guess there will be 6 stationary robots on the field, and they can play go fish wirelessly!

how exciting!
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Re: Game Hint #1

Daves signuture

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Re: Game Hint #1

This is just my version of a FIRST opah, aka Moonfish.



Sorry, I was getting a little bored.
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Everybody's doin' the fish! Yeah, yeah, yeah!
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Re: Game Hint #1

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YES!!!!!! you know what this means......


WATER GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I almost bashed my head into my desk when I saw the fish knowing that someone would bring up that ridiculous water game joke.
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Re: Game Hint #1

For what it is worth the original image seems to be copyrighted by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industial Research Organisation (CSIRO) of Australia. Go to this page: http://www.marine.csiro.au/caabsearc...pcode=37268001 and click the little “image info” link under our new favorite photo at the top of the page. It should take you to this page: http://www.marine.csiro.au/caabsearc...7268001a-t.jpg with the copyright info.

The photo is available for purchase in high resolution here: http://www.frdc.com.au/shop/merchant...ore_Code=photo if say you wanted to publish it in a book as an illustration.

The photo FIRST is using as Clue #1 seems to come from a simple Google Images search for “moonfish” which in turn originated here (as previously noted in this thread): http://www.australianseafoodexports..../moonfish1.jpg which is linked to from this parent webpage: http://www.australianseafoodexports....rderonline.htm

The image used on www.australianseafoodexports.com has the reverse text in the background as does the FIRST Clue #1 image. The GDC did not covertly plant any hidden messages in the reverse text. They have better things to do with their time. More likely the Australian seafood export company scanned a photo of a “moonfish” they had handy in some book and the text on the backside of the page (probably about some entirely different and non-related fish) came through on the scan. My bet is this is the book: http://www.publish.csiro.au/?nid=18&pid=2181 but it may be this one also: http://www.publish.csiro.au/?nid=18&pid=3551. I don’t have a copy of either book myself but may can find one at the office when I get back next week. If anyone lives near a university with a marine research program they might want to check the university library and see what they can find.

Given that last year the clue was in fact a latitude and longitude coordinate it might also be worth considering the CAAB Taxon Code for Lampris guttatus is 37 268001 which could easily be construed as a latitude in North America. If a Clue # 2 comes along it might be a reference to a longitude. I doubt that the GDC would give us a lat/lon 2 years in a row but you never know.
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Re: Game Hint #1

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I totally agree with the thoughts that the watermark is not a part of the hint. I feel that the only part of the hint here is its name and/or the fish itself.

thats what they want you to think.
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Re: Game Hint #1

No, I think that we will have to do a game that involves a net of some sort to catch things

OR

We are going to have to have one or two robots go after a high value target, while the others lend support or something along those lines

as far as the GPS theory... If the problem DOES have to do with fishing or marine, they might refer to LORAN-C TD coordinates since more fisherman and navigators use it over GPS due to accuracy...
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Re: Game Hint #1

the water mark is the dicstionary defonition for RED HARRING
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