Lily Keene
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Mar-11-2023 11:36
If you have a case with multiple pieces of physical evidence (say 3) and you discover 2 of those belong to suspects with real alibis, does it mean that the 3rd piece of evidence MUST belong to the killer?
(I'd found a chart for pieces of evidence/difficulty of case, i.e. 2/Easy, 2/Intermediate, 3/Hard, 3/Really Hard, 3/Really Really Hard, 4/All Others,)
So if I use the above chart to make sure I've found every evidence available, am I able to conclusively say that the last piece of evidence has to belong to the guilty suspect?
To further clarify, I'm to the point where I have enough skills to sometimes know if a hair is curly or straight, for example, but not enough skills to keep all my suspects/townies from clamming up before I can get their alibis. Trying to figure out if I can use deductive skills in cases like these where the alibi is unknown but it would make logical sense for it to be this suspect.
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Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe
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Apr-4-2023 09:56
Agree with Cro.
RRH cases and above will have either 3 or 4 pieces of evidence. One of them - and only one - will always belong to the killer.
This is one of the reasons I enjoy this game: you can use logic and deduction to narrow things down. For example, if I'm doing an IH case I know that I'll either have 8 or 9 suspects, and 3 or 4 pieces of PE. If it's a case where there are 8 suspects, I know that three of them will have true alibis, and the rest false. If there are 8 suspects and 4 pieces of PE, I also know that everyone with a true alibi will have a piece of PE - because there's only ever one piece of PE which belongs to the killer. I call these 'minimum' and 4' cases - the minimum number of suspects, and 4 bits of PE. Sometimes in these cases there's only one piece of PE that someone with a true alibi can have, so it saves you having to ask about it. On rare occasions it also saves having to check an alibi - if it's not possible for someone to have a piece of PE, given their handedness/hair type/weight/gender, then you know they must have a fake alibi.
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