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Drink Your Ovaltine
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		Drink Your Ovaltine
Or: That Puzzle Really Sucked
Situation where players encounter a puzzle for which they are sure the solution to is absolutely necessary for advancement of the story and when the solution is found, turns out to have little or no impact on the story, at all.

It may be the end of a trail, directing players to a product or in some instances, a puzzle that the PMs just HAD to include because it was so GOOD. In rarer cases, it is the result the PMs changing the solution due to a flawed puzzle design.

Acronym for, "Drink Your Ovaltine".
Or, in it's longer form, "Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine"

The longer version may be pronounced, phonetically, as either,
"Busted Yo" or "Bested Yo"

An homage the the film, "A Christmas Story" wherein the main character, Ralphie, using his Little Orphan Annie secret decoder pin, diligently and under heavy time constraints, decrypts the evening's secret radio message only to find out it is a sponsor's advertisement.

Ralphie had been waiting what seemed an eternity to get the ring in the mail and now that he's a member of her secret society, is very anxious to decipher Annie's very important message.

Letter by letter he decrypts the code. His excitement is palpable.

After cracking the code, Ralphie reads it:
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine. Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!'

EDIT: Thanks for keeping me honest, krystyn.
In looking back at forum posts and IRC logs from a couple of development efforts I was on, I see that the acronymic form was only ever used in the latter. The lead PM of one game introduced me to the term and the "BSTDYO" version/pronunciations and I thought It was just another one of those "OMGWTFBBQ101" things I'd just never been exposed to, like many of the other Glossary items.
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krystyn
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 		Has that actually been used in forum/community discussions in reference to an ARG event, in that form? (curious)
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		Embarassed Tweaked the topic (Was DYO (BSTDYO)) and edited the first post.
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