What is the dumbest solution to a problem that actually worked?

Had to program a game for a project in my course, with four months of C++ programming experience then.

I made a customization screen where players can choose their character's color, but there was a really bad glitch where when players are going through the options, the arrow pointing to the color options disappears for a while after the last option. Basically players have to press the down button on their keyboard again so the arrow will reappear again onto the first color option.

Couldn't solve what was wrong with it then (found out after I submitted the project that I wrote the wrong number in my code) so I ended up writing in my code that when the arrow disappears, the player will 'find' a 'secret' color not included in the options.

The lecturer did not notice a thing and was pleasantly impressed by the 'secret color'. Said it added some depth to the game and interactions between the players.

In summary, couldn't fix a glitch in a game, decided to make it a thing instead. Totally nailed it.

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