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Illustration for the riddle “The Ones Who Lay Down”

Halloween Night · ★★☆

The Ones Who Lay Down

At a Halloween party in a cellar, thirty guests dance beside a cauldron spilling white mist across the floor. Later, three are found unconscious nearby: a girl asleep on cushions, a man who lay down, and the dog. The dancers are still on their feet. What happened?

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.