Game Hint #1

[Mr_I]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

Look deeper, kids. The letters are written backwards...

Which likely means it came from a book, and that's the text on the reverse page. (In other words, likely not a part of the clue.)

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by billbo911

Maybe a tilting ramp, like a teeter totter, in the gut, the middle, of the field?

2001 Deja vu??
http://www.team537.com/history.php?year=2001

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

2001 Deja vu??
http://www.team537.com/history.php?year=2001

Yep. That is what I was thinking.
Note. Look at my Rookie Year. I wasn't around then, but the challenge of that Teeter-Totter has always intrigued me ever since I read about it.

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by IndySam

How about a foam flying disks?

Yep! That'll work!

[Zak698]

after a lil time in gimp, the test is backwards and there is another image of a shrak behind the fish, thus i believe that this is a scanned imaged from a book

[gabrielse]

What about a moon-shaped hovering disk as a game piece?

http://www.estesrockets.com/rockets.php?pid=008304

[nofar#1943]

what about somthing like fishing rod?
when we soppuse to catch somthing with hoocks

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Zak698

after a lil time in gimp, the test is backwards and there is another image of a shrak behind the fish, thus i believe that this is a scanned imaged from a book

You might have gotten that information faster if you had spent the time reading the thread instead of playing with the Gimp. I have the impression that what's on the other page is a channel catfish rather than a shark, but I don't think it's relevant.

(And I might have understood you faster if you typed more slowly and paid closer attention to spelling, but I'll attribute the test/text and shrak/shark to your being excited about the hint.)

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

(And I might have understood you faster if you typed more slowly and paid closer attention to spelling, but I'll attribute the test/text and shrak/shark to your being excited about the hint.)

Ah heck, I was thinking the shrak was a distant cousin to the shrek. I can't imagine having to reel in a shrek um, shrak.

Nevermind.

[jerry w]

Originally Posted by AndyB

Anagrams for Lampris Guttatus of the top of my head:

I Must Lag Startup
A Gut Ramp Tilts Us


Can't wait to see the gut ramp...

no not "gut"
the word is "tug"

A Ramp Tilt Tugs Us

[Tonya Scott 476]

What if it is a simple as moon + fish.

Moonbuggy--collecting rocks/transporting things around (look at FLL robots transporting items for survival of people on mars)

Fish---fish have a lateral line which is a series of nervous sensors which pick up vibration in the water for protection or finding food. So robots "sense" things like lights, etc.

[Tonya Scott 476]

in regards to fish anatomy and morphology---they do have swim bladders. the playing pieces could be some type of "balloon"

[ChuckDickerson]

Originally Posted by JesseK

Last year we got a lat/long/bearing as a clue. We knew it was a lat/long, and even had it down to the right place in Boston. Yet still, no one figured out that the hint meant the tortoise and hare statues in that reside in Copley Square at the given bearing when standing at the main statue in the Square. The obvious is so hard to see sometimes...

Really? Are you sure?

[rickG977]

The fish is the Opah alson known as the Spotted Moonfish. Since water and electricity don't get along I suspect something dealing with the moon.

[jakflyer]

the fish wasnt scanned out off a book. i found the same picture here: http://www.wildoceanseafoods.com/Haw...y6sQjuEb8f0t0=
its the same picture except it looks like first sharpened theirs and made it pixelly