Read the passage and answer the questions given below it.
In the summer of 2016, people flocked to parks, beaches and old monuments in many cities. They would stop, stare at their phones and set off in a new direction. They were not lost. They were playing Pokémon GO, a game released that July by the American company Niantic.
The trick was augmented reality, a digital picture laid over the real world. The game showed small cartoon creatures on the camera view of the street around the player, so a creature might seem to sit on a bus-stop bench or a temple step. Real landmarks such as statues, fountains and post offices became PokéStops, where players picked up free items, or gyms, where they battled one another. Nothing could be caught from the sofa. Even the eggs in the game hatched only after the player had walked a set distance.
Doctors have long found it hard to get people to walk more. A phone game seemed to manage it in a week. Studies of players’ daily steps found that they did walk a good deal more in the first weeks. Then the extra walking slowly tapered off, and after some weeks most players were walking about as much as they had before.
The game brought other worries as well. Some players stepped into traffic with their eyes on the screen. Others wandered into private gardens and buildings, chasing a creature that existed only on a phone. By the time Pokémon GO was launched in India in December 2016, such stories had already travelled ahead of it.
According to the passage, what did a player have to do before an egg in the game could hatch?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Cover a fixed distance on foot
The second paragraph says the eggs in the game “hatched only after the player had walked a set distance”.
- Hatch means to break open so that a young one comes out.
- A “set distance” is a fixed distance. Walking it is the same as covering it on foot.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: Visit a PokéStop at a real landmark — Incorrect. Wrong link: At PokéStops players “picked up free items”. The passage links hatching eggs only to walking.
Option 2: Win a battle against another player at a gym — Incorrect. Wrong link: Gyms were places for battles. The passage does not connect them with eggs.
Option 4: Point the phone’s camera at a creature — Incorrect. Wrong link: The camera view showed the creatures on the street. It had nothing to do with hatching eggs.