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Illustration for the riddle “The Flicker”

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The Flicker

Nineteen thirty-four. A man in a suit runs flat out down a long corridor, a signed paper in his hand, shouting for a door to be opened. The ceiling lights dim for a moment, then recover. He stops running, puts the paper away, and walks back the way he came. 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.