True Stories · ★★☆
Near Moscow, autumn 1983, just after midnight. In an early-warning bunker, the alarms go off: the satellites report American missiles launched at the Soviet Union. The officer on duty has minutes to pass on an attack that could set off a nuclear counter-strike. He reports a false alarm instead, and he is right. Why didn’t he believe the satellites?
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 same trick for years. One night it kills him, and nobody is to blame.
True Stories· ★★☆
Nearly three years of careful records, and the whole crew is a day behind.
