Bites
Hints
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The bites indicate the position of decrypted letters relative encoded letters on a computer keyboard (so for example a bite on the left would mean "d" gets decoded to "f") but since the in-game hints never mention the bites, most players simply assumed they were just eye candy (no pun intended).
Source: That One Puzzle
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Hints and Bites. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bites/hints
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