True Stories · ★☆☆
The Arctic, July 1827. North of Spitsbergen, a British party hauls its boats across the ice towards the Pole, several miles a day. Their course is due north. After five days, they fix their position by the sun at noon. They have gained barely a mile. How is that possible?
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· ★★☆
An army has surrounded Paris for months. Fresh news from the provinces still gets in.
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Thirteen experts find no trick, and the horse keeps getting his sums right.
True Stories· ★★☆
Spain buries him as a British officer. He never wore a uniform in his life.
