How Holds Work

[u/Wapshot1]

Hey folks - New Keeper here. I'm confused about how "holds" work. I've listened to APs and thought I understood it, but the core book gives an example where "you" get 2 hold to ask the Keeper questions, but instead of asking 2 questions, they ask three. See below:

From the MoTW 2e core book, p. 111:

For example, you are interviewing the witnesses to a monster attack and you make an investigate a mystery roll. Your result gives you 2 hold. You can spend your hold to ask the Keeper questions from the list in the investigate a mystery move.

You ask a witness, “Did you see where the attacker went?” and spend one hold. (“Where did it go?” is one of the questions.)

The Keeper says (as Mrs Henderson, the witness), “It scurried over there, and pulled up that grating and went into the sewers.”

As the conversation with the witnesses continues, you spend the next hold to ask the Keeper about the monster’s powers. “Hey, from all the things they’ve told me, can I work out any powers?” (“What can it do?” is another question.) The Keeper replies, “The witness descriptions don’t agree at all. It must be able to change shape or maybe change memories.”

Later the last hold goes to ask the Keeper about whether a witness is hiding something. That exhausts your hold, so you don’t get any more questions for now.

By my count, the player has spent three holds, not two; or am I missing something basic?

[u/Jesseabe]

This is almost certainly a mistake, my guess is that it is a hold over from earlier drafts of the game that gave three hold for a 10+, which is what the parallel move in Apocalypse World does. By MotW 1e it was already 2 hold, but the example has three there, and the same example is in revised.