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Originally Posted by Raghavi R
If this fish is a red herring, couldn't it just be a smokescreen, something to distract and divert our attention??? Isn't that also what a red herring is? We were talking about that at our team meeting the other day, and I wasn't sure if someone has said this already, but they probably have  |
I don't think this hint is a diversion or a smoke screen. If you go back and do a search for the official hints of past years, you can see that those hints garnered a lot of scrutiny, observations, opinions, and guesses. Some were dead on.
You will also observe that hint #1 doesn't go with hint #2 (and so on) on first glance but that sometimes - folks have put things together nicely and gotten close to guessing the game, the element, and the name of the game.
Also, it is great great fun to make as many plays in one move as possible - so since this is a guessing game, I'm guessing the GDC made as many possible moves as they could with this fish/hint. That is only a guess on my part but we are dealing with smart people who seem to delight in keeping teams in FIRST and anyone else who enjoys a good puzzle/game - on our toes and guessing.
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