True Stories · ★★☆
Huelva, Spain, 1943. A fisherman pulls a body from the sea, a briefcase chained to it. From his papers, the Spanish identify the dead man as a British officer and bury him with military honours. He had never worn a uniform in his life, yet he saved the lives of thousands of Allied soldiers. How?
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· ★★☆
The volcano killed the town. Days later, one prisoner turns up alive.
True Stories· ★★☆
Cholera kills five hundred in Soho. Far away in Hampstead, one widow dies too.
