True Stories · ★★☆
London, 1854. In ten days, cholera kills more than five hundred people in a few streets of Soho. Miles away, in Hampstead, where nobody else falls ill, a widow dies of it too. She has not set foot in Soho for months. For the doctor tracking the epidemic, her death is the best evidence he has. Why?
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· ★★★
Accused of selling Göring a national treasure, he ends up a national hero.
True Stories· ★★☆
The fuel was measured by hand and checked twice. Halfway there, the tanks run dry.
