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Christmas Eve · ★☆☆

He Was Looking Right at It

Just after midnight on Christmas Eve a man walks into casualty: he has lost the sight of his left eye. Nobody hit him, nothing exploded, and he never left his own front room. He was holding the thing that did it, a foot from his face, looking straight at it. He never saw it coming. What happened?

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.