According to Wide Open Country, the whole pickle game was most likely a marketing ploy to sell German glass ornaments to Americans.
However, experts questioned whether the animal caught on camera was in fact a baiji, with some suggesting the "sighting" could have been a ploy to attract funding for a Chinese conservation project.
What to Watch Out For: Like moles, conflict junkies may initially appear submissive, but this is a ploy that lasts only until they have adjusted to a new situation.
However, this year the All England Club has come up with a new ploy to put off younger players from joining the craze - by offering them plain white towels, instead of the senior players' brightly-coloured versions.
This is the easiest, most deniable and most effective passive aggressive ploy there is.
The City also worries that the regulatory change accompanying banking union may ultimately prove to be a ploy to bind London in red tape, eroding its competitiveness as a financial centre.
The ploy appears to have worked.
Indeed, the ploy seems to have created a new problem: street congestion, as hordes of people stop in their tracks to snap photos of the special sidewalk.
