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Illustration for the riddle “The Match in the Desert”

The great classics · ★★★

The Match in the Desert

A completely naked man lies dead in the middle of the desert. Clutched in his hand is a burnt match. The sand around the body carries no footprints and no tyre tracks. What happened?

The solution

Uncover this answer in Post Mortem. In the app, the narrator answers your questions as you piece together the story.

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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.

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