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Illustration for the riddle “Fires in the Orchard”

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Fires in the Orchard

At three in the morning a man walks his orchard, lighting hundreds of small flames one by one between the trees. He is not lighting the place up, he is not smoking anything out, and he burns nothing that grows there. At sunrise he blows every flame out and goes to bed. Why?

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.