The Penguin Hide and Seek glitch was a glitch that occurred on 28 January 2009 involving the Distractions and Diversions Penguin Hide and Seek. Players discovered the glitch when they found out they could spy on the same penguin over and over again. As a result, players could gain 50 points in a short amount of time, visit Larry, trade them in for experience, and then return to the penguin to earn more points. On World 60, the closest penguin to Larry was located north of the Ardougne Zoo in the church, and eventually moved south of the Legends' Guild, so a majority of the players who abused the bug abused it there for maximum efficiency.
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| - The Penguin Hide and Seek glitch was a glitch that occurred on 28 January 2009 involving the Distractions and Diversions Penguin Hide and Seek. Players discovered the glitch when they found out they could spy on the same penguin over and over again. As a result, players could gain 50 points in a short amount of time, visit Larry, trade them in for experience, and then return to the penguin to earn more points. On World 60, the closest penguin to Larry was located north of the Ardougne Zoo in the church, and eventually moved south of the Legends' Guild, so a majority of the players who abused the bug abused it there for maximum efficiency.
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| - The Penguin Hide and Seek glitch was a glitch that occurred on 28 January 2009 involving the Distractions and Diversions Penguin Hide and Seek. Players discovered the glitch when they found out they could spy on the same penguin over and over again. As a result, players could gain 50 points in a short amount of time, visit Larry, trade them in for experience, and then return to the penguin to earn more points. On World 60, the closest penguin to Larry was located north of the Ardougne Zoo in the church, and eventually moved south of the Legends' Guild, so a majority of the players who abused the bug abused it there for maximum efficiency. News of this glitch spread through the RuneScape Forums, private messages, and friends chats (called clan chats at the time); and soon hundreds of players of all combat levels abused the glitch. Hundreds of players also went to the location to watch the events unfold, as well as to report people who abuse the glitch. Many players also realised that their Summoning familiars could stand on top of them, blocking them and making it harder to be seen spying a penguin, and so they used that to their advantage. Hundreds of thousands of experience points were obtained due to the glitch and many legitimate players lost a highscore ranking. Honest players attempted to report the abusing players, but the bug abusers outnumbered them. Some players resorted to taking videos of the glitch in an attempt to catch those who abused the glitch. When news of the glitch got to Jagex Moderators and appeared on the Forums, Jagex disabled the Penguin Hide and Seek feature until the glitch was fixed. Players could still cash in penguin points if they had any. Jagex assured people on the official forums that the players who abused this glitch would not get away with it. According to Mod Poppy, Jagex has a program that can trace this type of data, and that it will take time until all the users who abused the glitch are punished.
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