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Unsolved cases. Yes-or-no questions only.

Case Archive

Pick a file. You will see only a fragment of what happened. Ask the moderator questions that can be answered with yes or no, and reconstruct the rest.

Case 01

Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra are found dead on the floor, surrounded by broken glass and a spreading pool of water. Nobody was home.

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Case 02

Tracks in the Snow

A murder is committed on snow-covered ground. The detective follows a single set of tracks to a house where four people live, and knows at once which of them did it. Nobody has said a word to her.

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Case 03

The Puddle

A man is found hanged in a locked, completely empty room. There is no chair, no stool, nothing he could have climbed on — only a puddle of water on the floor beneath him.

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Case 04

The View

Late at night, alone in her lit front room, a woman looks out of the window and understands in that moment that she is about to die.

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Case 05

Hands Up

A man in a crowded room takes out a pistol and fires two shots. Several people immediately put their hands up. There are police officers in the room, and none of them arrests him.

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Case 06

The New Shoes

A woman buys a new pair of shoes and goes to work. Wearing them, she dies the same day. There is nothing wrong with the shoes.

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Case 07

Lobster

A man orders lobster for dinner. He knows he is severely allergic to it, and that eating it will kill him. He eats it anyway, and dies.

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Case 08

The Draw

A man's name comes out of the hat. He has won the draw. He kills himself the same day.

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Case 09

The Stranger

A man is driving with his wife when he suddenly pulls over and gets out. When he returns to the car his wife is dead — and there is a stranger inside with her.

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Case 10

Rubbish

A man becomes rich in jewels, and dies among rubbish the same night.

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Case 11

The Diver

A man is found dead deep inside a forest, in full scuba gear — wetsuit, fins, tank. The nearest water is kilometres away.

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Case 12

The Telephone

A woman jumps from a window. On the way down she hears a telephone start ringing in the room she has just left, and she regrets everything.

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Case 13

The Chessboard

Two dead men in a sealed room. On the table between them, a chessboard with a finished game on it.

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Case 14

Gull

A man orders gull meat in a restaurant. He takes one mouthful, sets down his fork, and later the same day takes his own life.

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