Broadcast (2022)

Plotzle Sci-Fi · Puzzle #1 · April 14, 2026 · Sci-Fi / Fantasy

Six plot descriptions for Broadcast (2022). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A telepath discovers that her thoughts are being intercepted by strangers across the city and she begins receiving messages from people who claim to hear her voice in their minds.
2. A man addicted to a virtual reality network finds that his deceased wife's avatar continues to appear in shared spaces and he spends his savings on access time to speak with her.
3. A wealthy person creates a drug that stops aging and eliminates death, and the consequences for humanity are shown through a children's toy while revealing a hidden truth to someone watching.
4. A linguist translates an alien signal that turns out to be a repeating loop of human voices from different eras and she catalogs the recordings while living alone in a remote facility.
5. An engineer working on deep space communications equipment starts receiving transmissions from what appears to be his own voice but the messages contain information he has never known or spoken aloud.
6. Two siblings inherit their father's radio station in a small town where residents believe that certain frequencies can reach parallel dimensions and the broadcasts sometimes receive responses from unknown sources.