You're definitely right that learning to read through code is essential, Prashant. At the same time, a hint telling us to read the code would have helped keep the focus on the lesson, rather than on aimless debugging – I agree with Paul's comment below, in that the previous challenges had trained us to ignore the code beneath our active functions. It was a little bit confusing, although not the end of the world. Anyway, thanks for helping me solve this one!