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Illustration for the riddle “Dead on Paper”

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Dead on Paper

One morning a man's bank writes to say his account is closed: the holder has died. He goes to the register office, where a clerk hands him a death certificate in his own name, dated three months earlier. Nobody mistyped anything, and there is no namesake. What happened?

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.