What's an Egg Hunt?

00:00 Like you mentioned, there was this game called the Egg Hunt Game, and it’s a very similar concept in programming, so it’s like a little game for people to entertain themselves and find some jokes and hidden secrets in software.

00:15 It’s mostly about this egg hunt game, which is funny because I live in Poland and Easter is huge in Poland, but I’ve never heard of egg hunt game in my life before.

00:25 I literally asked my wife and she said, oh yeah, sure, I know what that is, you know, from TV. But in our childhood we never played that game, so I was really curious to find out what it is all about.

00:35 And it turns out that, yeah, parents just hide those eggs somewhere and the kids are after them. And the idea with Easter eggs and software is kind of similar, where the developers, the original creators put these secret messages, jokes, hidden something in the software, and they don’t tell anyone about it.

00:55 They just wait until someone discovers it and that becomes popular.