You find yourself standing in front of a glass display case. Inside are shelves holding a couple dozen canisters, each with a different bouquet of flowers.
You glance around and recognize where you are. This is the supermarket about a mile from the dorm, where you and Kathy and Jim would come to shop sometimes. So still college days, then.
You immediately pull out your phone and check your calendar. It's four in the afternoon, and you don't have anything scheduled the rest of the day. You're about to close the app again when you notice the banner at the top of the page. It informs you that today is Inez's birthday. March 10th.
You switch quickly to the notepad app, which you've been using to keep to-do lists since you got your first smartphone back in middle school. And sure enough, right at the top of the list is the simple instruction: "Flowers for Inez."
"No present?" you mumble to yourself, uncertain. You skim through the rest of the list and back a few days on the calendar, but you don't find any sign that you've gotten her any sort of present.
"Well," you say to yourself, "at least you know to get her flowers." But when you turn your attention back to the display case, you have no idea which flowers you should pick. You've always had a problem buying gifts for people, even when you know them pretty well. When you don't know the person at all, it's impossible.
You spend more time than you probably should trying to make a decision. Finally, exasperated, you open the glass door and pick the:
carnations lilies roses tulips
… or you can just pick at random, letting the Universe guide you. But how? Eenie, meanie, miney, moe? Exasperated, you shake your head.
Instead, you pull out your phone, asking it to pick a random number between 1 and 4:
Or you can
use the house key to go back to the day you and Inez first met.
pull out Inez’s note to try your hand at solving the puzzle.