True Stories · ★☆☆
Eastern France, June 1791. A large carriage stops at a post house for fresh horses. Among its passengers is a stout man dressed as a valet. The postmaster has never met him, yet he thinks he knows that face, and he is right. A few hours later, further down the road, the man is arrested. How did the postmaster know him?
It isn’t on this page, so nothing gets spoiled. You uncover it in the Post Mortem app: ask the narrator your questions, and once you have found every fact, turn the card to read the story.
Once the app is installed, come back to this page to open the riddle in it.
Already have the app? Open this riddleThis is a situation puzzle, a lateral thinking riddle solved by asking questions. Read the scene again and separate the facts from your assumptions. With a narrator who knows the answer, ask one question at a time: they answer yes, no or irrelevant.
True Stories· ★★☆
Nearly three years of careful records, and the whole crew is a day behind.
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In Vienna’s biggest hospital, some mothers would rather give birth in the street.
True Stories· ★☆☆
Five days hauling north across the ice, and they are barely a mile further on.
