Read twice. Trace once.

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Think of a boat crew.

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Drag or tap touching tiles. Use each tile once.

Puzzle solved

How it reads

How to play

This sentence is about to trick you.

Garden-path sentences seem to mean one thing at first. Then a later word breaks the pattern and forces a new reading. Trace the grid to find the reading that works.

How to trace

Move to any touching tile—horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
Drag back over recent letters, or tap a selected tile, to undo. You can use each tile only once per path.
Use the word-length clues to see where spaces fall. Punctuation appears when you find the complete sentence.

For example “The old man the boat.”

Here, the old means a group of people. Man is the verb: they staff the boat.