Crime

The Lightweight Coffin

Level 1 · Easy

A woman has not seen the body she is told lies in a closed coffin. A problem on the route requires it to be weighed on a checked scale: it weighs exactly its stated empty tare. She stops the ceremony and asks for it to be opened.

1. Choose a narrator: they read the answer privately and hide it.
2. Read the premise aloud. Answers: yes, no or irrelevant.
3. When the game ends, mark the puzzle as played.