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Illustration for the riddle “The Perfect Breakfast”

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The Perfect Breakfast

A man takes one spoonful from the most beautiful bowl of cereal he has ever seen, spits it straight back out and apologises. Beside him, a woman he has never met bursts into tears. Nobody was poisoned, he took nobody's breakfast, and the bowl went in the bin an hour later. 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.