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Illustration for the riddle “Eleven Went Out”

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Eleven Went Out

Every 31 October a man sets the same 11 figures out on his front lawn; two of them move when children come near. Four times during the evening he goes back out to refill the sweet bowl. In the morning he comes to fetch them with the wheelbarrow, two at a time. He counts 12, and he has bought nothing this year. 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.