> I read up on the hints about the secret area that already exist. It seems that a hint can be derived from an anagram of "Game of the Ages."
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> Anyway, if anyone actually has found the secret area, please divulge information. It's not like it's helping us through part of the game - it's just something extra we can get to that's probably cool.
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> But I tried to work with the anagrams anyway:
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> It did seem to make sense that "Sage" was included (and I heard that there are three words in the anagram). I went to www.wordsmith.org/anagram. Here are all the 3-word anagrams with "Sage":
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> SAGE FAME GOETH
> SAGE OHMAGE EFT
> SAGE HOMAGE EFT
> SAGE OMEGA HEFT
> SAGE FATHOM EEG
> SAGE FATHOM GEE
> SAGE GOTHAM FEE
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> None of these seem very likely. Anyone else can go to wordsmith.org/anagram and see if they have better luck. Or, if anyone wants to try it a different way, here are all the words one can make with the letters in GAMEOFTHEAGES:
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Huh? three words? You know, before you handed out this info, I couldn've sworn that the anagram was A GEM OF THE SAGE. I ran GAMEOFTHEAGES through an anagram making page, and this seemed like the most likely candidate to me.

..... not that this helped me any.......what, me, bitter? noooooooooo, well, maybe a little...