Daily puzzle

Put The Open Window back in order

Seven beats from our edition of The Open Window by Saki, shuffled. Drag them, or use the arrows, until the story runs straight. No account, no streak to lose.

  1. Arrival Framton Nuttel comes to the country for a nerve cure and calls on Mrs. Sappleton with his sister’s letters of introduction.
  2. Left with Vera While the hostess finishes dressing, her self-possessed niece Vera keeps the visitor company.
  3. The tale Vera explains that the open window memorializes three hunters lost in a bog, whom her aunt still awaits.
  4. The hostess Mrs. Sappleton enters and talks brightly of her husband and brothers returning soon, which Framton reads as delusion.
  5. The figures Three men and a dog walk in from the dusk toward the open window, exactly as described.
  6. The flight Convinced he sees the drowned dead, Framton flees the house in blind terror.
  7. The reveal The men are alive and ordinary; Vera coolly fabricates a new explanation for the stranger’s panic.