Answer for the 2023 Demo Game

If you have made it this far, congratulations! You have followed the trail of clues and deserve your answer to the 2023 demo game.

Source

Penn Jillette (1955- present), American Magician, attributing its origin to Chip Denman (an IT director, University of Maryland & former NIH statistician)

In most instances, each game has a source rather than an attribution, but I went off the rails for 2023.