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World's smartest Meccha Chameleon player bamboozles opponents by not disguising themselves at all: 'Hiding is for amateurs'
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Most Meccha Chameleon clips that come across my feeds depict a hide-and-seek game where artistic skills rule the world. Anyone with an eye for color can blend into a painting so well that I need someone to draw a big red arrow to see them. But I found one player who has proven that you don't need any of that if you're confident enough.
There's nothing in the rules about not hiding at all, as X user RNGeezMC demonstrated in a recent clip. Against the right players (AKA strangers), anything is possible.
"I play in Meccha Chameleon public lobbies like I'm performing a Turing test on the other players," they wrote.
Instead of disguising themself as a piece of scenery, RNGeezMC coats their featureless body in white and walks around as if they were a seeker. Nobody seems to notice the slightly smaller player walking around without a shotgun in their hand, including the other hiders when they swap sides.
RNGeezMC doesn't even try very hard to stay out of the seekers' first-person camera, either. At one point they stand in front of a player who is so focused on the hunt that they just push them out of the way. RNGeezMC raises their hands like they're surrendering—a gesture that I don't think seekers can even perform—and still gets away unscathed.
hiding is for amateurs https://t.co/u9q8ehAtYx pic.twitter.com/Bc3etzjouLJune 26, 2026
The match eventually comes to an end and you can hear RNGeezMC in disbelief that it worked at all. They were right when they said "hiding is for amateurs," because you can apparently win purely by exploiting the fact that everyone is too busy scrutinizing everything to notice the imposter running around.
That's another point in Meccha Chameleon's favor, if you ask me. It's already incredible to watch people hide underneath tables and up against paintings using the game's rudimentary painting system, but it's even better to see that it's possible to ignore the point of the game and succeed anyway.
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