True Stories · ★★☆
Saint-Pierre, Martinique, May 1902. In two minutes, a burning cloud from the volcano sweeps the town and kills nearly all its 28,000 people. Days later, rescuers digging through the ruins of the town jail find one prisoner alive, badly burned. He had not escaped, had not hidden, and nobody had sheltered him. Why did he live?
It isn’t on this page, so nothing gets spoiled. You uncover it in the Post Mortem app: ask the narrator your questions, and once you have found every fact, turn the card to read the story.
Once the app is installed, come back to this page to open the riddle in it.
Already have the app? Open this riddleThis is a situation puzzle, a lateral thinking riddle solved by asking questions. 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.
True Stories· ★★☆
Cholera kills five hundred in Soho. Far away in Hampstead, one widow dies too.
True Stories· ★★★
Accused of selling Göring a national treasure, he ends up a national hero.
