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Illustration for the riddle “The Reservoir Stayed Full”

Christmas Eve · ★★★

The Reservoir Stayed Full

A family buys their tree on 1 December and tends it like a houseplant: standing in water the same evening, the reservoir checked daily, never once dry. On Christmas Eve a light string shorts out. Within a minute the room is gone. The fire officers will say they have rarely seen a tree that dry. How is that possible?

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.