New Game Hint? - Crackerjacks, Haagen-Dazs cups and Diet Coke cans?

[EgROS]

We might have our first game hint of the year!
Check it out at Bill's Blog: http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2009...o-do-with.html

He mentions 3 distinct shapes:
Diet Coke cans- cylinders
Crackerjack cases- boxes
Haagen-Dazs cups- frustums

Could these be the three shapes of next years game pieces?

[ttldomination]

Please look around the forum, I believe this clue is already under discussion and has been overly dissected.

[ATannahill]

This post from Bill's Blog has not been discussed, you are thinking of this thread http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=77965 about a post a few weeks later. The post that this thread is about has not been mentioned on CD.

[Chris is me]

I'm trying to figure out what any of those have to do with using one's head. Hmmm..... Any ideas?

[gorrilla]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I'm trying to figure out what any of those have to do with using one's head. Hmmm..... Any ideas?

well you have to eat them all.....collecting something?

[Karibou]

I'm sure you all remember these...
I could see a game that involves sorting items. It'd just be incredibly challenging, and rely a lot on the new camera and/or the drivers

$0.02

[Mr. Pockets]

I still think that it has something to do with stacking things. Maybe on the robot as opposed to on the field in referrence to the bit about using your head (balancing on your head) .

[ATannahill]

Sorry Eric, I don't follow much in this forum.

[jmanela]

maybe you put the different game elements inside of the boxes?

[Elgin Clock]

If a game involving shape seperation & organization finally emerges in 2010, I will echo the statement of many with a great big "FINALLY!!!"

The idea of a game with that element to it has been discussed since I joined FIRST way back in 2001 - & I'm sure well before....

[Katie_UPS]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I'm trying to figure out what any of those have to do with using one's head. Hmmm..... Any ideas?

The ice-cream containers... I'm telling you! Its a lamp-shade!

[scottmacdonald]

Originally Posted by Karibou

I'm sure you all remember these...
I could see a game that involves sorting items. It'd just be incredibly challenging, and rely a lot on the new camera and/or the drivers
$0.02

Crackerjacks - come in a plastic bag
Haagen-Dazs cups - are cardboard
Diet Coke Cans - made of aluminum

I agree with a "go green" theme and sorting items but that still doesn't explain...

Originally Posted by dlavery

If... she... weighs... the same as a duck ... she's made of wood.

And therefore? ...

which references the Monty Python Scene from the holy grail

[BrendanB]

Man this thread went crazy.


So after a long day on the express register and seeing at lest 15+things of Haagen Daza ice cream and too much diet coke, i thought of a couple of ideas.

Like what was mentioned earlier about ice cream containers getting smaller, and possibly the crate sizes which means smaller robot dimensions. I then thought of this- What do most people do when they go on a diet. Change to diet soda, which in most cases in diet Coke.

So my thoughts are smaller crate size/robot size (Haagen Dazs containers getting smaller) and less robot weight (Diet Coke)

my ideas

[NalaTI]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I'm trying to figure out what any of those have to do with using one's head. Hmmm..... Any ideas?

I figured that there was something (a cross beam or bar) in the air and he hit his head on it while trying to duck under it...

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I'm trying to figure out what any of those have to do with using one's head. Hmmm..... Any ideas?

You can eat the contents of the containers.... maybe he wanted to make sure that this years game pieces can be recycled from other common household items meaning no Walmart not stocking orbit balls YAY!!!

Man that doesn't make sense, but at least there is less than 4.5 months left until we find out what it is. Maybe i should pack these items for lunch during kickoff for good luck.