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Illustration for the riddle “The Finest Presents”

Christmas Eve · ★★★

The Finest Presents

A man gives his wife and his children presents of a kind he has never given them before: a fountain pen, a notebook, a coffee machine, a framed photograph. He bought nothing, stole nothing, borrowed nothing. On 6 January his wife finds a flattened cardboard box in the boot with his name on it, and understands. What happened?

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.