True Stories · ★★☆
Paris, winter 1870. An enemy army has encircled the city for months, and its lines hold. Yet thousands of Parisians receive news from their families in the provinces, written long after the siege began. No one carries it through the lines, nothing comes by river or underground, and every telegraph wire is cut. How does the news get in?
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· ★☆☆
Thirteen experts find no trick, and the horse keeps getting his sums right.
True Stories· ★★☆
Spain buries him as a British officer. He never wore a uniform in his life.
True Stories· ★★☆
The volcano killed the town. Days later, one prisoner turns up alive.
