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Illustration for the riddle “Beware of Pickpockets”

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Beware of Pickpockets

Posters appear around a crowded tourist square: beware of pickpockets. The warning is perfectly accurate, for the square is full of them. Yet the police tear down every poster the moment they find one, and once the walls are bare, thefts go down. 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.