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Fish Are Food, Not Friends

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Errata (1) — Dec 23, 2025, 7:50 PM UTC

Dec 23, 2025, 7:50 PM UTC — The flavor text of the puzzle has been revised. Additionally, the icon set between the water body and river on the left side of the island has been revised from snowflake to leaves and snowflake.

Hints

Keywords	Hint
getting started	The scene, penguins, and fish data are from Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You will need to identify these items.
flower, sun, leaf, snowflake icons	These icons represent seasons. As noted in the flavor text, remember that the island is near Antarctica, but the analyst recording the data is in a different hemisphere in the United States.
speech bubbles	The penguins are each saying their in-game catchphrases, but their hunger is causing a word to get swapped out with a phrase describing how they'd like to prepare the fish they're catching.

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