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Red herrings (Posted on 2006-12-19)

This text conceals an important question!

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Note that colors, uppercase or lowercase, underlining, special symbols, and line breaks, may be very important... or not at all!

Submitted by Federico Kereki

Rating: 4.2000 (5 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

Read just the red herrings --sorry, letters!-- but backwards. It says "WHAT IS ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING FALSE CLUES", and the answer is, clearly, "RED HERRINGS".

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Subject	Author	Date
Puzzle Thoughts	K Sengupta	2023-04-11 21:32:40
re(2): More than one meaning (no spoiler)	e.g.	2006-12-20 10:41:11
Why ask a question ...	e.g.	2006-12-20 10:40:00
Using a five by five matrix and herring-bone chart	Leming	2006-12-20 08:20:04
Smoke screens	Jyqm	2006-12-20 07:30:36
re: More than one meaning (no spoiler)	matt	2006-12-19 19:15:50
More than one meaning (no spoiler)	Old Original Oskar!	2006-12-19 14:07:07

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