Crime
Don’t Be Late!
Level 2 · Medium
Bill arrives late at a priest’s party and gives a toast. The guests stop smiling. One calls the police, although Bill has threatened nobody and confessed no crime at the party.
- 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.
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The answer
Before he arrived, the priest said the first man whose confession he heard in the parish had admitted murder. Unaware of that speech, Bill boasted that he had been the first. The toast connected two otherwise separate facts, giving the guests a reason to request an investigation.