Daily puzzle

Put William Wilson back in order

Seven beats from our edition of William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe, shuffled. Drag them, or use the arrows, until the story runs straight. No account, no streak to lose.

  1. A second William Wilson At Dr. Bransby’s academy a boy with the narrator’s name, arrival day and birthday becomes the one classmate who will not submit to him.
  2. The whispering copy The namesake imitates the narrator’s dress, walk and voice in a whisper and offers quiet advice that the narrator resents.
  3. The sleeper’s face Creeping with a lamp to prank his sleeping rival, the narrator is horrified by the face he sees and leaves the school that same night.
  4. A whisper at dawn During a drunken party, a youth dressed like the narrator meets him in a dark hall, whispers his name, and disappears.
  5. The cheat exposed As the narrator ruins Glendinning at cards, a cloaked stranger tells the company where his hidden cards are, and he must flee Oxford.
  6. Across Europe From Paris to Rome, Naples and Egypt, the double keeps appearing to block his schemes, always with his face hidden.
  7. The mirror At a Carnival ball in Rome the narrator stabs the masked double and finds the dying man wearing his own face.