Hints

Plot-hole #179 · September 14, 2026

Difficulty: Medium · 77% of 319 players solved it.

Hint 1 — One-word hint

"Survival"

Hint 2 — The Setup

Warsaw during the Nazi occupation.

Hint 3 — The Character

A gifted musician watches his world collapse around him.

Hint 4 — The Conflict

He hides in the ruins of the city, starving and alone.

Hint 5 — The Twist

A German officer discovers him playing piano in a destroyed building.

Final hint (names names)

Adrien Brody plays a Polish-Jewish pianist surviving the Holocaust.

The answer

The Pianist (2002)