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Illustration for the riddle “The Box in the Car”

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The Box in the Car

On the morning of 1 November a woman takes scissors to the decoration she had spent three hours stringing between the two birches at her gate. She puts a piece of it in a cardboard box, gets in the car and drives 25 miles. She leaves with the box and comes home without it. She bought nothing and called on no one she knows. Why?

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.