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Re: 2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!

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Originally Posted by gyroscopeRaptor View Post
I think that anagrams are futile. The GDC wants the hints to be crackable, and I don't think they expect us to find one of 28,000 possible answers. Haven't we done enough already to crack any possible codes, and we can move on to the words themselves?
Just resolved some access issues (or I might have jumped in sooner). The post on the FRC Blog Hint #3 page was mine (anagram: "rearrange letters, showing message hiding inside, kiddos"). It was a fun little exercise. Given that it uses all of the letters from the poem, with reasonable phrasing, it could very well mean something. I like that it's "circular" (relates to pi). And, anagrams HAVE been used in the past (e.g. to get "drive straight, turn left", a few years back).

Hopefully, it'll all be clear in a few days.

Of course, the clues also point to a water game (as they always do, it seems): Dew (water) kisses a rose. Wayne Wade (water reference) recorded "I Kissed a Rose" in the 70s. An anchor (water!) is a holding weight.