True Stories · ★★☆
Cape Verde islands, July 1522. A battered Spanish ship drops anchor after nearly three years at sea. One of the men has kept a journal every day, without a single gap. A boat goes ashore for supplies and learns that it is Thursday. On board, it is Wednesday. Nobody skipped a day or miscounted. How is that possible?
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· ★★☆
In Vienna’s biggest hospital, some mothers would rather give birth in the street.
True Stories· ★☆☆
Five days hauling north across the ice, and they are barely a mile further on.
True Stories· ★★☆
An army has surrounded Paris for months. Fresh news from the provinces still gets in.
