Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24577221-20150713175010/@comment-26581304-20150723005933

BunsenH wrote: KaiPax wrote:

Explain how you got here, please. If they follow pattern, then there are likely only four new letters, I thought?!? The letters you've proposed spell Shindig if you use the i twice. A tribal shindig sounds like a good party! It's supposed to be a puzzle. I'm not certain of my solution; call it around 65% sure. I'm curious to see if other people come to the same conclusion, given the hints I dropped. The next few letters will increase my confidence if they match my guess, and of course any mismatch will blow away my guess.

The word "tribal" has some unpleasant loading in a lot of contexts: "Look at those quaint / dangerous / primitive non-white people!" I hope that BBB doesn't build something like that into the game.

One more thought/question - when the Glowbes came out, were the letters released in the proper order or were they scrambled? The letters were released in the proper order but the message didn't make a lot of sense: "Prepare for this made-up word-thing". It told us that something new was coming, but that wasn't much of a surprise.

Added later: BBB have been "releasing" letters at a rate of about 2 per week, and of course the new Rares have been coming out at 1 per week. But there isn't any kind of rule in play like "exactly 2 letters per Rare and we have to stop at 10". Re: inferences emerging from tribal. The monsters aren't white, black, brown or purple. Well, actually they are but I don't get any racial undertones. They are colorful. I, too, wouldn't be interested in something as you described. Couldn't they be based on jungle animals? Crocs, elephants, lemurs.

Not big on surprises.