Crime
A Car Without a Driver
Level 2 · Medium
A car parked on a slope stays still for hours. Then it rolls away by itself and hits a man below. Nobody has touched it in the meantime. Only water remains beside its wheels.
- Choose a narrator: they read the answer privately and hide it.
- Read the premise aloud. Answers: yes, no or irrelevant.
- When the game ends, mark the puzzle as played.
Hold or double tap. With a keyboard, press Enter.
The answer
Someone left it in neutral without the handbrake, holding its wheels with large ice wedges. As they melted, the wedges lost the thickness needed to restrain it. The car rolled downhill. The water was what remained of the restraint that delayed its movement.