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Elias smiled. He didn't need the app to answer. He opened his front door just as the hooded figure was reaching for the doorbell. “The letter E,” Elias said.

The figure pulled back their hood, revealing Elias’s younger sister, Maya, a game design student home for the weekend.

He looked out his blinds. A figure in a dark hoodie was standing on the sidewalk, illuminated only by the glow of a tablet. Elias checked the app again. The comment section was exploding. NextDoorStudios - Head Game.mp4

“I have a face but no eyes. I have a tongue but cannot taste. What am I?”

It started with a notification: “Has anyone seen the Head Game?” Elias smiled

Elias watched the hooded figure approach his own driveway. His phone buzzed. The video on his screen transitioned to a shot of his front door. The final riddle appeared:

The NextDoor app went quiet as Maya posted the final video. The "Head Game" was over, leaving Oakhaven a little more connected—and a lot more suspicious of their own porches—than it had been an hour before. “The letter E,” Elias said

“I solved the second one!” wrote Mrs. Higgins from 4B. “It’s a shoe!”