True Stories · ★★☆
Vienna, 1846. The general hospital has two maternity wards, taking women in on alternate days. In the first, staffed by doctors and medical students, more than one mother in ten dies of fever after giving birth. In the second, staffed by midwives, fewer than one in thirty. Women beg to go to the second; some would rather give birth in the street. Why the difference?
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· ★☆☆
Five days hauling north across the ice, and they are barely a mile further on.
True Stories· ★★☆
An army has surrounded Paris for months. Fresh news from the provinces still gets in.
True Stories· ★☆☆
Thirteen experts find no trick, and the horse keeps getting his sums right.
