Hunter x Hunter 2011

[DarthEnderX]

Yeah, right. So, it's automatically a plothole if it wasn't explained in painstaking detail?

It's a plothole if there is a gap in the logic of something and there are characters present that have been established as clever geniuses and they don't notice said gap.

The fact that there is an inconsistency in Hisoka's story is not a plot-hole. After all, his story is fabricated. The fact that there's a way to test it and neither Chrollo nor anyone else present thinks of it, given the intelligence that has been attributed to some of those characters, is one.

This would allow him to hand over the version of the fortune he handed over, answer chrollo in the manner he answered, and yet not allow him to let Pakunoda read his mind. Is this fan-fiction? Sure. Is it unreasonable? I don't think so, at least. And there are probably a number of other explanations the author could easily have fit in there if he was so inclined. It's not necessary though.

That would be all well and good, IF someone present had at least thought to bring up the obvious solution, and Hisoka had similarly refused.

But the fact that it wasn't brought up implies that either the writer himself didn't think of it, or he couldn't think of an excuse to get around it, so he simply didn't bring it up and hoped no one would notice.

The deception Hisoka weaved was solid enough to withstand the situation it was designed to.

Clearly it wasn't if several members of this board noticed it immediately and we're probably not nearly as intelligent as the writer wants us to believe Chrollo and some of the other spiders are.