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Illustration for the riddle “The Arm in the Mail”

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The Arm in the Mail

A parcel arrives in the mail. Inside it, a severed human arm. The man who opens it looks the arm over, nods, and mails it on to a second man, who looks it over in turn and then buries it. No crime has been committed. What is going on?

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.