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Jan-3-2007 16:25

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I read (on more than one agency page) lists where it says how many suspects and how many of them have an alibi for certain dificulties (ex 8 suspects, 3 withut alibis on hard). Therefore if I foudn 8 bad or no alibis I stopped askign others. This past case I had 3 that were no or ba d(at least I thought), I accused who I thought it was and I was wrong. The guilty party was someone other than the 3 I thought had no alibi. Obvisouly aince I was worng on my guess I couldhave been wrogn in my alibis but Ithink I have seen this before. So anyways, does anyone know if the X suspects, Y alibis equation stillworks?

I'm sure the end problem is my bad sleuthing but knwoing how many no alibis sure helps a lot.

thanks.

Jan-3-2007 17:37

I have noticed on some of the easier levels of cases that the number of fake /no alibis varies

Jan-3-2007 17:38

Yes, I've also had the same with AI's. Always EXACTLY 7 fake/no alibis in AI cases. I think that's a pretty steadfast rule.

Also, I think it's pretty safe to say that there are exactly 5 fake/no alibis in IH cases. 8-9 suspects, certainly, but only 5 fakes.

Jan-3-2007 17:39

But now I read what SS wrote above and am a little nervous!

Jan-4-2007 01:59

Yeah, usually it's the number of suspects with real alibis that can vary, however, on Intermediate and Hard the number of suspectes with fake/none of your business aliblis can also vary :)

Jan-4-2007 02:13

i noticed it varies more with odd numbers than with even numbers... of total suspects, but i'm not saying that it doesn't vary in all cases...

Jan-4-2007 03:14

Ive been playing with the "list" for over 2 years and never had a false accusation made by it.
As far as I know many ppl here (so probably many agencies) have my list. But its my old list!

The old version was X or X+1 suspects and Y alibis.
Now apperently there are some levels that you can have Y or Y+1 alibis. So you need to be carefull in those levels.

Another thing that could have happend is that sleuth gods didnt like the fact that I PMed my list to so many ppl and they have changed the rules :P

Jan-4-2007 04:38

lol more than likely.... our gods are vengeful gods :D

Jan-4-2007 05:37

In most AI cases I have played with 11 suspects I have had 8 fake/no alibis and 3 reals. You are always going to have at least as many real alibis as evidence, or else you would have two killers. Or evidence which leads nowhere. Only when I have had 10 suspects in an AI case have I had 7 fakes/no alibis.

Jan-4-2007 05:40

That's very strange, Jonathan, because in ALL the AI cases with 11 suspects I have 4 real alibis and 7 fakes/no alibis. One of the reals does not have evidence that matches anything. The vast majority of the cases I solve are AI's, and I have never had an FA due to this. *shrugs*

Jan-4-2007 06:05

I have had a few with 7:4, but on the whole its been 8:3 on the fake:real. Strange.