True Stories · ★★★
Amsterdam, 1945. A painter is arrested for selling Hermann Göring a painting the experts accepted as a lost Vermeer, a national treasure. Accused of collaboration, he could be shot. Two years later, he walks out of court with a one-year sentence, and the Dutch make a hero of him. How did he save himself?
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 fuel was measured by hand and checked twice. Halfway there, the tanks run dry.
True Stories· ★☆☆
He cannot speak, write or move his hands. He finishes a book in two months.
True Stories· ★★☆
The satellites report American missiles. The officer on duty calls it a false alarm.
