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Illustration for the riddle “The Red Dress”

The telling detail · ★★☆

The Red Dress

Every school morning, a mother lays out her little girl's clothes. One morning the mother oversleeps, and the big sister, wanting to help, dresses the girl in her red dress instead. That night, a man dies in their house. 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.