Daily puzzle

Put The Killers back in order

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

  1. Two men in black Al and Max enter Henry's lunchroom, order awkwardly, and behave with menacing strangeness.
  2. Hostages The killers reveal their plan to murder Ole Andreson and tie up Sam and Nick in the kitchen.
  3. Watching the door Al holds the kitchen at gunpoint while Max waits at the counter for the target to appear.
  4. The target never comes Andreson fails to show, and the two killers finally give up and leave the lunchroom.
  5. Nick goes to Ole George sends Nick to the boarding house to warn Andreson that men want to kill him.
  6. Ole gives up Andreson lies facing the wall, aware of the threat but refusing to run or fight.
  7. Nick's disillusion Shaken by Andreson's surrender, Nick tells George he must leave this town.