Skip to content
Illustration for the riddle “The Lights Came On”

The telling detail · ★★☆

The Lights Came On

A man comes home after midnight to a dark, silent house. His wife opens the door, and he kills her on the step. No neighbour is awake and no one passes in the street. He carries her inside and switches on the light. Within the hour, he is under arrest. 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.