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The Tell-Tale Heart Fact-Matching Game

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About This Challenge

The Tell-Tale Heart Fact-Matching Game is a thrilling experience that immerses players in the dark and mysterious world of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale. In this game, players will have to piece together important information fragments to uncover the truth behind the chilling events of the story.

  • Players will have to use their deductive skills to connect the dots and uncover key details about the characters and events in the story.
  • As players progress through the game, they can use spells to get hints and extra time to help them unravel the mystery.
Need a Hint? View the Facts
  • - The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe.
  • - It was first published in 1843.
  • - The story is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator.
  • - The narrator is obsessed with an old man's pale blue eye.
  • - The eye is described as "vulture-like."
  • - The narrator claims to have a disease that heightens his senses.
  • - The story is set in a house during the night.
  • - The narrator carefully plans the murder of the old man.
  • - He succeeds in killing the old man by suffocating him.
  • - The narrator dismembers the body and hides it beneath the floorboards.
  • - Throughout the story, the narrator insists on his sanity.
  • - The sound of the old man's beating heart intensifies the narrator's guilt.
  • - The narrator eventually confesses his crime to the police.
  • - He believes he can hear the dead man's heart still beating.
  • - The story explores themes of guilt, obsession, and paranoia.
  • - The Tell-Tale Heart is considered one of Poe's most famous and influential works.
  • - It is often categorized as a Gothic horror story.
  • - The story's unreliable narrator adds to its suspense and mystery.
  • - The Tell-Tale Heart has been adapted into various forms of media, including film and theater.
  • - It continues to be studied and analyzed for its psychological themes and narrative techniques.

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