Twisted Tales

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Card 36 of 82

The Arm of the Postal Service

One day a man received a parcel in the post. Carefully packed inside was a human arm. He examined it, repacked it and sent it on to another man. The second man also examined the arm carefully before taking it to the woods and burying it. Why did they do this?

Solution: Three men had been stranded on a desert island. Desperate for food, they agreed to amputate their left arms and eat them, and swore an oath that each would have his left arm cut off. One of them was a doctor and he cut off the arms of his two companions. They were then rescued, but his oath was still binding, so he later had his own arm amputated and sent it to one of his companions, who examined it and sent it on to the other, who buried it.
How to play

Twisted Tales is a game of lateral thinking. Each card is a strange, usually macabre situation, and your group has to work out what really happened.

  1. Pick one player as the Game Master (the Narrator). Only the Game Master looks at the screen.
  2. The Game Master reads the prompt on the card out loud, then privately reads the solution using "Show solution".
  3. Everyone else asks questions to piece together the story.
  4. The Game Master may only answer "Yes", "No" or "Irrelevant" (when the question is a dead end).
  5. Keep asking and discussing theories until someone reconstructs the key events. Then the Game Master reads the full solution aloud.
  6. Use "Next" and "Back" to move between cards. You always start from the prompt.
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