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Illustration for the riddle “Ten Minutes in the Dark”

The telling detail · ★★☆

Ten Minutes in the Dark

Nineteen seventy-eight. Two old friends spend ten minutes side by side in a small dark room, in complete silence, each busy with his own work. Nothing is said and nothing moves but their hands. When the light comes back on, one of them knows the other has been seeing his wife. How?

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Uncover this answer in Post Mortem. In the app, the narrator answers your questions as you piece together the story.

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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.

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