True Stories · ★☆☆
Berlin, 1904. Ask a certain horse what three plus five makes, and he taps his hoof eight times, then stops. A commission of thirteen experts examines him and finds no trickery: he answers strangers just as well, with his owner out of the room. Yet the horse cannot count. How does he get it right?
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· ★★☆
Spain buries him as a British officer. He never wore a uniform in his life.
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.
