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Illustration for the riddle “Thirty Flags Before Dinner”

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Thirty Flags Before Dinner

An ordinary man delivers a letter to each of thirty foreign governments in a single day. He goes to their offices in person, carries no passport, and never leaves his home city. The letters are accepted everywhere, and that evening he is home for dinner. How?

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.