The Difference Between Red Herring Clues And Official Game Hints

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by dlavery

What about baseballs? Basketballs? Golf balls? Bowling balls? Cricket balls? Croquet balls? Billiard balls? Volleyballs?

Lots of sports have balls. There are many that have not been used yet.

Hmmmm. We may have to remember this list for the 2014 game....

-dave



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This is pretty much a definitive red herring. It presents some plausible information, yet does so obscurely so we can't tell whether it is valid information about the game or not. We won't know until kickoff whether the information applies or not.

As opposed to an official clue, which presents some valid information about the game, but in an obscure fashion so that we can't discern anything definitive about the game. We might decode the clue, but we won't know until kickoff.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

This is pretty much a definitive red herring. It presents some plausible information, yet does so obscurely so we can't tell whether it is valid information about the game or not. We won't know until kickoff whether the information applies or not.

As opposed to an official clue, which presents some valid information about the game, but in an obscure fashion so that we can't discern anything definitive about the game. We might decode the clue, but we won't know until kickoff.

Right, so when new members of new teams join CD and wonder about this, as happened in the Game Hint thread, we can provide this as an example and say it all connects?