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The Viewer's Complaint

A woman gets a furious letter from a stranger: her words gave away a film's twist twenty minutes in. She has never met him, written a review or discussed the film in public. Every sentence she wrote was accurate, yet one word spoiled the ending. 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.