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Illustration for the riddle “Albatross Soup”

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Albatross Soup

A man walks into a seaside restaurant and orders albatross soup. He swallows a single spoonful, stands up, walks out and kills himself. Why?

The solution

Uncover this answer in Post Mortem. In the app, the narrator answers your questions as you piece together the story.

Available on Google Play and the App Store.

Where do you start?

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.