... a red herring ... is a clue which makes you come to a wrong conclusion or something which looks like a clue but isn't. |
What Is Red Herring?
A red herring is an artificial distraction from the essence of the problem. A red herring is a superficial and redundant piece of information that often complicates the formulation and obscurs the nature, of the problem. This could be a valuable device of problem posing that forces the solvers to investigate the problem first, separate what's important from what is not, and focus on the former.
Below are several examples.
- On the Difference of Areas
- Area of the Union of Two Squares
- Circle through the Incenter
- Circle through the Incenter And Antiparallels
- Circle through the Circumcenter
- Inequality with Logarithms
- Breaking Chocolate Bars
- Circles through the Orthocenter
- 100 Grasshoppers on a Triangular Board
- Simultaneous Diameters in Concurrent Circles
- An Inequality from the 2015 Romanian TST
- Schur's Inequality
- Further Properties of Peculiar Circles
- Inequality with Csc And Sin
- Area Inequality in Trapezoid
- Triangles on HO
- From Angle Bisector to 120 degrees Angle
- A Case of Divergence
- An Inequality for the Cevians through Spieker Point via Brocard Angle
- An Inequality In Triangle and Without
- Problem 3 from the EGMO2017
- Mickey Might Be a Red Herring in the Mickey Mouse Theorem
- A Cyclic Inequality from the 6th IMO, 1964
- Three Complex Numbers Satisfy Fermat's Identity For Prime Powers
- Probability of Random Lines Crossing
- Planting Trees in a Row
- Two Colors - Three Points
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