True Stories · ★★☆
Canada, July 1983. A brand-new airliner’s fuel gauges are out of order, so the tanks are measured by hand and the crew work out how much fuel to add; the figures are checked again at the stopover. Halfway to Edmonton, at 41,000 feet, both engines stop: the tanks are empty. There is no leak and no theft. What happened?
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· ★☆☆
He cannot speak, write or move his hands. He finishes a book in two months.
True Stories· ★★☆
The satellites report American missiles. The officer on duty calls it a false alarm.
True Stories· ★★★
The same trick for years. One night it kills him, and nobody is to blame.
