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i dont know how many times ive read that the image was scanned out of a book...getting kinda old...i think ill borrow a phrase "search the thread is your friend"...weve decided (at least 5 times) that the words are illegible and its most likely not part of the hint...everyone is just going on circles now...i really hope that they throw in the next hint soon

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Actually, someone found exactly what the text is (posted earlier in this thread), but it's just the description of the fish on the page before (aka not relevant to the hint.

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Dave's at it again...
his Facebook status leads you here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s

Gah....make it stop!

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Ok, so I've waded through most of the posts - lots of creative ideas. I have one question. If FIRST wanted to convey a hint about fish, of the millions of images about the multitude of different species of fish, why did they pick this one? As the image is not original, it was specifically selected for a characteristic. I believe that the hint must be specific to the Opah or one of its alternative names or characteristics. Of all the suggestions, I like the Moon, Fish, Ocean game concept the best.

Follow the logic from the GDC perspective. A Rock, Paper & Scissors type game - how can we obfuscate that in a plausible hint?

Rock, Paper & Scissors -> Moon, Fish, Ocean -> moon fish -> Opah -> Ok, let’s go find the most cryptic image we can find on Google images that can be clearly identified as an Opah thus providing a single plausible path, but which also provides a multitude of false leads.

PGR

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Dave is slap happy.

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The game this year: cut down the biggest tree in the forest, with a HERRING! *gasp*

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I move that as many people as can make it to the Kickoff do that sketch with the full GDC. Then do it again with just Dave and/or Aidan at any events they attend.:p

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MONTY PYTHON IS AWESOME!!!!!!

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nee

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I don't know if anyone actually remembers, but "rack and roll" had fish as the game clue. So lets focus on the connections of the fish to that game THEN try to make some parallels for this year.

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lil bit 'o photoshopping:

ill post a better one after i figure out how to clarify more of the text

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Not the official hint. Though the game did have some red herrings associated with it (gee, thanks, Dave).

Oh, and any photoshop you do, someone has probably done for you. Please search the thread-- it's in the thread's orange bar.

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Aidan is one of our old mentors. im pretty sure we still have " Aidan on a stick" (a picture of aidan glued to a yardstick) somewhere around the shop. Anyone want to borrow it to vent frustrations about the game? Jk, Aidan, we love you.

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OMG OMG OMG OMG :)

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This was my logic exactly. If we are thinking like the GDC then the next obvious question is how do you play “rock, paper, scissors” or the new Zen version “moon, fish, ocean” with robots? I have always thought of “rock, paper, scissors” as a two player game while “moon, fish, ocean” can be played with 1, 2, or 3 players (according to www.moonfishocean.com). What could this mean for alliances?

We should also consider that the clue might be leading us not to the game “moon, fish, ocean” but the game’s creator Craig Conley. Check out www.oneletterwords.com. Maybe something about this grand master of words is what we are supposed to figure out?