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Illustration for the riddle “Out in His Shirtsleeves”

Christmas Eve · ★★☆

Out in His Shirtsleeves

Christmas Eve, 10 at night. A man steps outside in his shirtsleeves and the door swings shut. No key, no phone, no neighbour, and it is minus six. He rings, he bangs, he shouts: the bell is dead, the shutters are closed, and 20 people are singing inside. Twenty minutes later he is at the table, having broken nothing. How?

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.