Scenarios

A mountain hostel has lost its road to the snow and the bus is not coming for three days. There are eleven guests, and one of them has appointed themselves the kitchen. You have been handed a knife and a bag of onions...

There is an all-night diner where the owner lets certain regulars sleep in the back booth, and tonight you are one of them. The person washing dishes was in that booth last winter. They have poured you a coffee, pulled...

The town theatre burned down and the insurance covers the walls but not the people, so the reopening committee is you and whoever else turned up to the first meeting. That turned out to be one person, with a folder of...

A relative you never met has left a houseboat jointly to you and a stranger, on the condition that you both live aboard for a year before either can sell. Your co-heir arrived first and has already named the boat. The...