Crime
Goodbye
Level 2 · Medium
In a restaurant, a tearful older woman approaches a young woman. “You look so much like my daughter, who died last year. Would you do me a favour and say ‘Goodbye, Mum’ when I leave?” The young woman gladly agrees and does so as the older woman leaves. Later, she gets an unpleasant surprise. What happens?
- 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
The older woman had told the waitress that her daughter would pay for both of them. Hearing “Goodbye, Mum” convinced the waitress that the young woman was her daughter.