Or the person telling the story lies some of the time in which case it’s not a riddle and you’re just talking to a normal person

I am using sync, yes. It’s strange, in my inbox your spoiler format appears correctly as the colons, but in the thread it appears as greater exclamation mark. I think sync is not only using a different tag to make it work, but live changing other users’ formatting 🤔.

I checked my post in browser and it was changing the less than sign to the HTML character code do that may also be the issue.

It showed up as a spoiler on my device, really sorry ☹️. I used the same tags as you suggested though.

Bg3 just pulled this off towards the end when you >!just removing the spoiler altogether as the tags didn’t work for some people!<