2011 Game Hint #1

[Robert Cawthon]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

This is the hint that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people start guessing not knowing what it was, and they'll continue to guess forever just because...This is the hint that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend.

Jane

This might end if a second hint comes out! Or even a red herring!

[demosthenes2k8]

while(1) { guess(); while(1) { repeat_previous_guesses(); if(dead_horse.posted()) break; } }

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by demosthenes2k8

while(1) { guess(); while(1) { repeat_previous_guesses(); if(dead_horse.posted()) break; } }

In musical terms - a round.

Robert, I think there have been some red herrings but I'm not really good with them or with hints so...

A 2nd hint would do nicely - maybe.

Jane

[psyco_klown]

well it looks like we expect the same thing when the manual come out. how many will RTFM.

[SEV33RoboMan]

Does anyone find it interesting that the Harmelen train disaster happened the same year the song loco-motion came out and it happend on exactly the same day as kick-off and it has to deal with trains

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by psyco_klown

well it looks like we expect the same thing when the manual come out. how many will RTFM.

This: beats a dead horse - anytime.

[Dad1279]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

New Idea

Highest ring is 10' up, the second ring is 7' up. The circle step is just a simple 2".

Just brainstorming on the idea of the column. So I thought something Colosseum-like.

That would be a fun field. But I'd make the 'circle' 8" off the ground or so, and a slick surface.

I nominate thee for the GDC....

[Team#2057-Vegas]

Originally Posted by SEV33RoboMan

Does anyone find it interesting that the Harmelen train disaster happened the same year the song loco-motion came out and it happend on exactly the same day as kick-off and it has to deal with trains

it has been brought up a few pages back.. but yet again.. its a interesting thought

[Ethan Spitz]

What if this year it takes place on a railroad track? that would be real interesting for drive trains

[SEV33RoboMan]

I wonder if Dean Kamen's 60th birthday this year has something to do with this years game

[skebhners2]

Originally Posted by SEV33RoboMan

Now i've never been big on strange things happening for certain reasons but this seems just a little suspicious.

The harmelen train disaster:

"It was shortly before twenty past nine in the morning of Monday January 8, 1962 when a train bound for Amsterdam was snaking through the junction. Consisting of two electric multiple units it was moving at about 45 mph. The manouvre was protected from oncoming train by a red signal on the approach to the junction from the Utrecht direction.

A Utrecht to Rotterdam express train, headed by an electric locomotive, No. 1137 and travelling at about 60 mph was approaching the junction. Perhaps because of the foggy conditions, the driver missed a yellow light warning that the next signal was at red. It must have been at the last moment that he saw the danger signal. The driver applied the brakes but there was nothing more that he could do. Collision was inevitable."

Now i find it strange that the LED was also invented in 1962 and the little eva narcis song loco-motion came out in 1962

My thought we have a course that does indeed involve trains and i beleive mirrors will be a big part while using LED's. Maybe there is a part of the field that is hidden and we must use lights and mirrors to get there?

I had mentioned the LED's awhile back. Mainly, I see them being used to reverse goals.

[knuckleduster]

AAARrrgggghhhHH! We never learned from previous years!

Last years hint was completely useless!

Its all part of FIRST's plan to keep us up all night till the competition ends!!

We will all be tired and stuff durring the season if we spend too much time on this.

Or, we might be correct and it has something to do with trains.

whatevez

*falls asleep*

[klmx30302]

Originally Posted by robox89

Theres no time for sleep. We've got games to think of and robots to design soon lol. 3am build nights are always the best.

Haven't experienced one of these yet, but theirs always this year. 47 days till "crunch time". 51 days till ship day.

[kornjones]

i'm not sure if anyone posted this yet and i am definitely not reading 50 pages of posts, but I think the woman in the picture looks a lot like Dr. Mae Jemison. A.K.A. the first African American Woman in space, or something to that effect.

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by kornjones

i'm not sure if anyone posted this yet and i am definitely not reading 50 pages of posts, but I think the woman in the picture looks a lot like Dr. Mae Jemison. A.K.A. the first African American Woman in space, or something to that effect.

It would take reading a grand total of three pages for you to not look like a fool.