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Jul-31-2006 00:17

um, i guess i don't understand how these work.
i have weird physical evidence which i don't know where to check, i get weird witness evidence which i don't know how to apply. i get weird alibis...medical conference? where am i supposed to check that?

how come i can't solve an intermediate level FM when i'm on incredibly hard regular cases? pls advise. pm's ok.

Jul-31-2006 00:35

thanks. i've tried this case like 4 times already. sad to admit that : )

Jul-31-2006 00:50

hmmm... I don't think I've done this one, but I might add that it's usually the order you do things in that mucks you up in FM's.

"Research" has usually the killer in the ones I've been stuck on. (Oh and you can use research even if you don't have it when you're doing FM's too.)

In one of the FM's I did, I went off and used Research first chance I got and came up with a decent clue. Unfortunately I should have explored all my options before I used it because I always came to a dead end.

When I played if for the THIRD time and took my time, one of the suspects actually said to me, "Go off and research that" (ok so I paraphrase) and I came up with a completely 'different'Research clue that unlocked heaps of new suspects, AND then I was able to use Research a second time to get that orginal clue.

So you might want to think about the order you've done things in too...

:) SS

Jul-31-2006 09:36

SS - Thanks for taking the time to write all the helps. It took me three times to solve the Unread Will and I have struggled with how FM's work. I need to keep reading more helps before I try to solve another one.

Jul-31-2006 11:16

thanks for the great hint, SS!

Jul-31-2006 20:04

lol well I went and played this FM to satisfy my curiosity. And it took me two goes. And, I don't think I'm any wiser as to why I accused who I accused. But I suppose solved is solved.... maybe :s

Aug-2-2006 15:32

I need some help with this one. I have 7 suspects. I can't ask anyone else any more questions and no one in town is talking to me. I can't research anything and I'm not sure if I have to convice anyone. I've tried this one 4 times *grrr* and I can't figure it out. Can someone please help? Are there other suspects I have to find... thanks.

Aug-3-2006 03:28

Well, you have all the suspects so you just need to go over what you've found out during your investigations and see if some of it might not indicate who the murderer is - as CFM mentioned, features are more difficult than the regular cases, and the killer not always as obvious, but on the upside you won't get a false if you don't get it right and you can try as many times as you want :)

Aug-3-2006 04:40

this one was the hardest one I worked, took me three or four times to get it right (except for Doomsayer 3)

Aug-6-2006 16:22

Thanks :)

Aug-16-2006 21:09

bumping this because i am still stuck. pretty much at the point that rockclimber was at (see above).
can someone give me a hint? do i do anything with the hat and strange jars i have from the crime scene?

has anyone successfully solved this and understood what they did? anyone?