True Stories · ★☆☆
France, 1996. In a hospital room by the sea, the editor of a fashion magazine composes a whole book, every word his own. He cannot speak, cannot write and cannot move his hands, and he uses no machine. A visitor takes the text down for him, three hours a day, for two months. How?
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· ★★☆
The satellites report American missiles. The officer on duty calls it a false alarm.
True Stories· ★★★
The same trick for years. One night it kills him, and nobody is to blame.
