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No. of suspects on Intermediate?
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naud
naud

Mar-27-2007 17:24

Hi all,
i must admit that after searching in the forums and some community sites, i was a bit surprised to see that there is no clear indication of what the ratio of people, evidence, suspects is for each mystery level.
For the Intermediate level, most sources indicate (6-7 ppl / 2 ev / 3 susp).
Some sources only give 7 ppl, but i had 6 too, so the 6-7 ppl indication seems correct.
I just had a 'favor' case (intermediate) where i found 7 ppl. 3 had valid alibies, 3 had NO aliby. I did not check the 4th, based on the assumption that there can be only 3 suspects at this level.
In the end, there was no PE matching any of my 3 suspects ! (yes, i was able to check them all)

Assuming only 2 possible evidence, which i found, the possible explanations I see:
1. the intermediate level can have 4 suspects. Note: a certain xls helper gives (6-7 ppl / 2 ev / 2-4 susp) 2-4 would be crazy, very little info from it.
2. the intermediate level favors deviate from the general (6-7/2/3) rule
3. it is possible for a killer to have no associated PE (?)

Thanks for any comments and a link to a good source of info ;)
naud

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Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Mar-28-2007 20:51

By the way, Reda wasn't the one who made that statement, Naud. I was. In every case, only ONE suspect (the killer) will have ALL of the following:

A false/no alibi
A piece of physical evidence (P/E) matched to him
A total of two witness statements (W/E) made against him

The other suspects will all have alibis. Some will be real, some will be false. The people with REAL alibis will also have physical evidence (P/E) and witness statements (W/E) against them, but because they have VALID alibis, they CANNOT BE THE KILLER. Real alibi suspects will also only have one W/E statement against them, not two.

Regardless of who is your killer, chances are pretty good you're not going to be able to find and verify all the alibis for all of the people, identify all of the evidence to everyone, and get all of the witness statements for everyone. (Even the old-time veterans can't do it, and they've got umpty-ump gabillion experience points and skills to work with.) And the higher the level your case is, the sooner people clam on you.

The moral of the story is, please don't make assumptions until you've hit one of the magic formulas/laws. They're used because they've been tested, and they work.

reda
reda
Well-Connected

Mar-29-2007 01:00

1-3 yes

My comments were only about the number of suspects. They werent about the golden rules.
Those will always apply.

Lady Harper
Lady Harper
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Apr-26-2016 20:44

Are there any Sleuth Helpers like Watson still available?

Real McCoy
Real McCoy
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Lady Harper
Lady Harper
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Apr-28-2016 08:36

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