Dossier No. 0
Training file
Closing Time
A short training file: one bookshop, one evening, one verdict nobody questioned.
- Setting
- Altweiler, Alsace, France
- Dates
- Set 2004, Reopened 2026
- Players
- 1–6
- Playing time
- 20–30 minutes
The case
Altweiler, Alsace, November 2004. Henri Keller, an antiquarian bookseller of sixty-eight, is found at the foot of his cellar stairs on a Saturday morning, and the gendarmerie closes the file as an accidental fall. In 2026 the review unit reopens it as a training exercise for new reviewers. The file is short: a scene report, a table of accounts, a plan, a letter, some emails and a machine nobody played. Read it closely, open the sealed file and decide what really happened.
What you have to decide
When you are ready, you cast one vote in five parts. It cannot be changed once it is locked.
- Who is responsible for the death, if anyone is.
- How it was done.
- Why it was done.
- The period during which the guilty person’s own account is false.
- The two exhibits that prove it best.
Before you start
- You choose a nickname and get a recovery code. Keep the code: it brings your progress back on another device. An email address for signing in is optional.
- On the next screen you choose to play alone, open a room for up to six people, or join a room with a code.
- Each nickname has one run per case. You can stop at any point and come back later.
- Content note: the evidence describes a death and the circumstances around it.
More cases
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Dossier No. 1
The Shard Shore
A herring night, a bank of broken glass, and a time card stamped long after she was last seen.
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Dossier No. 2
Honest Weight
On the last night of pressing, the miller went down to his boat. Or so the file said.
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Dossier No. 3
The Wigmaker’s Attic
Two days before the van was due for his workshop, someone turned the attic upside down.
Each case stands alone, so take them in any order. Browse the cases