Re: Jack & Jill

Richard Heathfield's attempt at a trick (the trick identified by the
fact that
he deemed that swp won the prize) fails.

As George Weinberg said, "the "trick" is that the instructions
say you're supposed to read all instructions before doing anything."
That is, until you have finished reading the instruction list, you
don't *do*
any of the instructions.

The purported trick was that you had to treat the following as an
instruction,
and do it.

> The above string literal is merely spoiler space, and does not constitute an
> instruction. The correct phrase to submit is: "What a great puzzle!"

For one thing, it is merely a set of statements. For another, even if
it
were phrased as instructions (e.g. "Do not regard the above as
instructions.
Submit the phrase 'What a great puzzle!'."), the trick would still
fail.

Note Richard's rubric:
> This puzzle's correct answer is a phrase. The first to finish this puzzle
> and submit the correct answer to rec.puzzles as a reply to this article is
> the winner. Read the following instruction list all the way through, and
> then follow all the instructions exactly.

That is, the correct thing to do is to *read* them, *without* doing
them yet,
in particular, *not* following the instruction to submit "What a great
puzzle!",
and *then* doing them.

Even tricks must work. This would-be trick fails.

.

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