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Forty Doors

Overnight on the 31st, four houses in the same street are burgled. The police interview 50 neighbours: nobody saw anything out of the ordinary. Yet the whole street saw the burglar, some of them more than once, and a dozen of them gave him something. How is that possible?

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.