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Illustration for the riddle “The Last Song”

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The Last Song

At midnight, 120 people dance upstairs in an old barn, and the floor holds. By three, only twenty remain, half of them seated. During the final song the floor collapses, killing one person. An engineer finds sound timber and far fewer people than earlier. How?

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.