To Developers: Typo in the Green House scene Riddle mode

[sybuur]

Start with the Green House scene which has a door to the outside and a workbench on the left, a table in the bottom-&-center-middle, a pantry in the upper-center, and a lot of plants on the right

Next make sure you are playing the Riddle mode.

Look for the sentence "It sidles along on slithering scales.". For me this was 8/8.

You need to change the "sidles" word to "slides".

[Andullivan]

It's not a typo. Snakes do sidle. It means the movement they make where they go side to side.

[sybuur]

Originally posted by Mufasa:

It's not a typo. Snakes do sidle. It means the movement they make where they go side to side.

Thanks for the interestnig answer. It made me look up the definition...
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sidles
But after reading the 2 Mirram Webster disctionary definitions I'm going to say it is still a typo. I almost want to agree with you but it doesn't feel right. The only snake I know that would sidle (move sideways) is the Sidewinder. Agree? And the likelyhood they meant that specific snake in the Greenhouse is unlikely. (I'd need to play the game again to take a look at which snake image they used.)

[Andullivan]

It doesn't just mean moving sideways. It also means to move obliquely, as in the way a snake moves side to side like an S shape. Instead of just sliding in a straight line.
It is a rather obscure hint, compared to the rest in the game, but I think it's used correctly.
Slides would have probably been better, especially in keeping with the difficulty of the game.
Even "It slithers along on shimmering scales" or something may have been better.
They chose a rather unique way of presenting it.

(No notification, thus lengthy reply. It didn't take me a month to research and contact multiple Herpetologists, I swear)