by WiZ » Tue Jun 30, 2020 9:40 pm
LemonCurry
Was the best friend blind, and therefore unaware of the deceased‘s condition? no
Doriana
Did the young man - when he was still alive - look shorter than he actually was because of his condition? yes, very good
GalFisk
Was he an amputee? no Was he buried in a short coffin because they took off his prothetic legs? n/a If so, had he hidden the fact that he had prothetic legs? n/a
Trebor
Did he shrink post-mortem? no Grow? yope
***** SPOILER *****
The young man had muscular dystrophy and had lived his life in a wheelchair. Seeing him lying at his full body length in the coffin, his best friend could see for the first time that he was tall.
Congratulations, Doriana, on the solution, and thank you everyone for playing!
Puzzle is adapted from the YA novel 'See ya, Simon' by David Hill, which everyone who attended a New Zealand school from the 90s onwards will have read or had read to them at least once.