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Re: Game Hint #1

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Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur View Post
But here's the real kicker. FIRST brought the picture into a photo editing program and changed the compression of the JPEG. Thus if they wanted to, they would have removed the background text (or if it had nothing to do with the game).
Thus, I believe, that the background text (be it the text itself, or the fact that it's there and/or it's backwards) was intentionally left there and is part of the hint.
You can barely see (if even at all) any text in the original image on the FIRST website.
Bottom line, they probably didn't even know the text was there.
The basics of "Fish, Opah, & Moonfish" is the best clues we have to go on.
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