True Stories · ★★★
London, 1918. For years, a stage magician has closed his show the same way: spectators mark two bullets, his assistants load two rifles in full view and fire at him, and the marked bullets clink onto the plate he holds up. One night, everyone, the magician included, does exactly as always, and nobody has tampered with anything. He falls, shot in the chest. What happened?
It isn’t on this page, so nothing gets spoiled. You uncover it in the Post Mortem app: ask the narrator your questions, and once you have found every fact, turn the card to read the story.
Once the app is installed, come back to this page to open the riddle in it.
Already have the app? Open this riddleThis is a situation puzzle, a lateral thinking riddle solved by asking questions. 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.
True Stories· ★★☆
Nearly three years of careful records, and the whole crew is a day behind.
True Stories· ★★☆
In Vienna’s biggest hospital, some mothers would rather give birth in the street.
