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Feb-7-2008 18:52

Hi, everyone.
I've been playing this for less than 2 weeks and I've already seen some patterns unfold that aren't written anywhere, so I thought I'd ask if anyone has seen any others.

um ... For instance...

On average, 2 of my suspects will successfully ID the killer, and the remaining 5 or 6 of the others will not. So if you ask all your lineup if they suspect the SAME two (or so) people and you get "No" from most of them, you can reasonably cross those two people off the list. Then, you can check your physical evidence against your remaining suspects.

Ok. your turn.

Feb-7-2008 20:43

Not entirely sure if you're talking about Witness Evidence (W/E) Statements here or something else. Mind detailing that a bit more, please?

There's also some other threads around here that deal with similar topics to this, Rich. You might try a search for them. :-)

Feb-7-2008 23:47

My experience too are that there are in any case 3 or 4 suspects that will suspect someone else for being the murderer. There are always 2 suspects who can ID the killer.
The reason why being that you can pin the killer with either a fake/no alibi or a witness or suspect positive statement, or you can pin the killer with 2 suspects positively identifying the "choosen" ;-)
You might not always get the positive suspect statements, as they normally clam faster than they answer yes... - especially on harder cases.

When it comes to strategy though, you would nearly always try using the physical evidences to take out all the suspects from the equation that you can, and hope that you will id the killer during the process. If that don't work, you will return to using the suspects against each other. The reason for this being that both suspects and witnesses clam about equally fast, but it takes more suspect question to drop out on a suspect. If a suspect cannot match any of the evidences, you know he/she can't be the killer. That might take at most 4 questions, but on the harder cases it would take more than 8 questions to know by asking the suspects if someone are the killer.

Feb-7-2008 23:51

Yes, and no. It depends on how many people clam up, harder levels people clam up really quickly, I am happy to share just not in public,. Some people may want to figure it out for themselves

Feb-7-2008 23:56

I think you are safe to share in public AKA, anyone who doesn't want hints should surely be avoiding something entitled Sleuth techniques?

(And before anyone else says it... "And don't call me Shirley.")

Feb-8-2008 00:05

Look, everyone!! It's Laverne!!!! ;-D

My, how the years have changed you....

Gotta say, the goatee does look nice though. ;-)

(Yeah, I know, he's gonna get me for this...*wink* ;-)

Feb-8-2008 00:42

My advice is go visit the Sleuth Community Sites page and check out somewhere like Hunters Academy, which has some great 'how to solve a case' lessons.

Feb-8-2008 22:33

Welcome, Detective Rich J. Mayo to Sleuth: Noir. I do get what you're saying. I think it's a reasonable enough technique, though I suspect it will get less feasible as you try the harder cases. As the others have pointed out, suspects can clam up really fast on those cases and you won't know then, if they will say "No" to another suspect. Good thinking though, on discovering the pattern so far.