At this point, choosing which card to give the player after him had become extremely important to Harry.
He had discarded "sunlight" earlier. Now he still held two color descriptions and a "medical" card. Harry had already reached a very clear conclusion: the colors in his hand were actually extremely important! He had realized that most clues were highly abstract. They could not directly form the shape of a particular product—or at least, he could not picture any specific product in his mind. Instead, countless different products appeared at once.
At times like this, certain detailed clues became especially important. For example, the soil among the public cards, and the colors in his hand.
He guessed that the other three had probably already figured out what it was. It was either fruit or juice. However, they lacked confirmation of the color, so they could not narrow it down any further.
"Medical" had a very broad range of applications and was also highly misleading. Without hesitation, Harry turned over the "medical" card and placed it in the exchange area.
He glanced at the player after him, then at the player before him. Everyone had excellent control over their expressions. He could not detect the slightest change in their faces. Each person was carefully restraining their emotional reactions.
Under the host's direction, another round of cards was exchanged. Harry lifted his card with a mixture of anticipation and unease, then froze.
A "granules" card.
If it was granules, it formed a powerful combination with the card Harry had held earlier but exchanged away. Medical, granules—wasn't that a pill? But that conflicted with both sunlight and soil.
The Federation had extremely strict regulations governing herbal preparations in its medical laws, because Federation citizens—or rather, the people of this world—might have certain genetic defects.