The words "felt" and "cue" and "sink" are all meant to clue the game of billiards-style pool. "The water is changing color" from blue to green, I guess.
So the "swimmers" are numbered pool balls, "sinking" into the six pockets of a pool table. Once you know that...
- To evaluate which pairs of balls score points under "matching rules," you just need to know the standard colors of pool balls.
- To evaluate which pairs score points under "opposite rules," you must also know that blue and orange are complementary colors, as are green and red, and purple and yellow. If maroon is complementary to anything, it's green (but not really, so, let's not use that pair either way).
- Under "colorblind rules," you just need to know which numbered balls are stripes and which ones are solids.
- "Cutthroat rules" use the rules of cutthroat pool, which divide the balls into groups for three players or teams: 1-5, 6-10, and 11-15.
The rules for water polo use the word "blindfold," which means we must use Braille. Interpret each pool table as a Braille grid to spell the answer, PALO ALTO.
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