Workers said the elaborate ruse had one happy result.

We sometimes have to work out some pretty elaborate ruses when we're showing the place.

Perhaps that had been part of some even more elaborate ruse.

I don't need anything from you except an explanation for this elaborate ruse.

I hoped this wasn't all some elaborate ruse to flush me into the open.

This could all be an elaborate ruse to implicate us.

Was it really possible the whole thing had been an elaborate ruse?

What if this was a very elaborate ruse to get him to spill the beans?

He'll create an elaborate ruse, something to get up close and personal.