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Illustration for the riddle “Cold Case”

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Cold Case

The Alps, on the Austrian-Italian border, September 1991. Two hikers find a man frozen into the ice of a glacier pass and alert the police. Ten years later, an X-ray shows that he was shot in the back. The police know they will never arrest the killer, and nobody blames them. Why not?

The solution

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.

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How to solve this riddle

This 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.