I'm gonna go with 'trap'.
There is a glitch in human cognition that causes us to more strongly believe things that were difficult to discover than things that we are simply told directly.
Con artists know this. To get a mark to believe something they entice them, string them along, and make them work to pry the fake-truth out. Then you are on the hook. This is also basically how cult psychology works.
Always remember that "truths" that were difficult to uncover are NOT any more likely to be true than those that were easy to find. Everything still needs real sauce.
This is especially true when dealing with human beings. Whenever you sense that someone is making you jump through unnecessary hoops to get to The Secret it should trigger a red flag in the back of your mind.
This goes for Q too. Don't believe Q just because you spent solving solving his riddle. Believe him because of the Proofs, probability of coincidence, and logic.