Trap
In Anglo-American 'course' or 'trap' rallies, a deliberately misleading instruction designed to lead the crew off the correct route.
A trap is, in Anglo-American course or trap rallies, a route instruction worded deliberately so that inattentive crews leave the correct route. A crew that 'buys' the trap goes astray until it notices the mistake or the rallymaster's plan brings it back on course. A rally full of such traps is called 'tricky-trappy'; here it is less about second-perfect timing than about correctly following the general instructions. Traps are the core Anglo-American element of the course rally and are related to the tasks of European navigation runs.
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