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Call Our Bluff HALLOWEEN EDITION

Is “spooky season” your favorite time of year? Do you spend all of October watching scary movie marathons and listening to “Monster Mash” on repeat? Then this puzzle is for you. See if you can figure out which of the dozen blurbs below are true and which three are just a bunch of hocus-pocus.

ANSWERS, PAGE 76

1. JACK OF ALL TRADES

Jack-o’-lanterns first appeared in Ireland in response to a local legend: a blacksmith known as Stingy Jack tricked the Devil himself and, when he died, he got locked out of both Heaven and Hell.

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