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Aug-11-2005 10:32

How do YOU Sleuth, I ask? :O Do you memorize alibis, etc., open Notepad, or what? Personally, I open Notepad. It makes the Sleuthing process much easier for me.

Jun-12-2006 17:07

There is another link that you can use as well. Ifound it on the hitchikers web page... http://leiden.leonieke.net/sleuth-table.html

Hope they don't mind me posting that! If you like that style of "sleuthing" then try it out!

I personally love my pencil and paper!

*cries for those poor, poor trees*

Jun-16-2006 18:34

Just the same like Jstdn i started with pen and paper, but you can researche you'r current case at city hall.
So a note book is pretty much USELESS!!

Jun-16-2006 18:48

I use my handy dandy notebook! :)

Jun-21-2006 03:34

I started using pen and paper. But its to slow. So instead I made my own helper in HTML. And of course I made it in notepad. I play with two windows open beside eachother. This speeds up the process. And I have made it available at

http://hem.passagen.se/tajfoon/

Here you can check it out or download the zipped version for free.

Have fun with it. Email me if you have any questions.

Jul-4-2006 16:32

I started with pen and paper on my first case.
But i got good enougf to figure things out on my own.

Jul-10-2006 00:06

Hello everybody - sorry I haven't visited Slueth Town for a long while, and so haven't been very responsive to suggestions about updates to the old Sleuth Helper.

A lot of things have happened in RL - not least of which has been the birth of our baby girl!

It's great to see other people developing their own Sleuth Helpers - and some even coded by hand! I think the little differences across them highlight the different approaches people have to playing the game. Anyway some people have made suggestions about the difficulty tables in the old Sleuth Helper, so I'll post an update soon.

Jul-10-2006 01:27

I just use a pencil and a pad. no mess, just that.

Jul-10-2006 10:01

Oh, I always open up Microsoft Word, and all after when I have all of the suspects and alibis, I cross off the ones that have valid or true alibis. Also, when I get WE or PE on one of the suspects that remain w/ false alibis, I bold them and put them in red to be the first person(s) to ask other people. That's pretty much it!

Nov-27-2007 19:57

I Sleuth by getting all my PE, ask around for clues, check the Fortune Teller, and then I go back to the crime scene as a reminder of what it looked like.

After that, I look at the age of the victim and the suspect's relationship with him or her.

If it's a younger person (under about 35) and it was a crime of rage, I usually narrow it down to the owed $$/insane suspects

If it's an older person and the crime scene is really neat, I look @ servants, lawyers, and doctors.

If any of the victim's kids want the inheritance and the body has been moved, I immediately go back and start looking for WE to nail them for being so greedy. A rearranged body usually is a sign of remorse so I look at family and servants first.

Hope this helps and adds to the conversation (-:

Nov-27-2007 22:47

Hey Jordan - I'm glad you get all your PE straight right off the bat. This is definitely best practices in sleuthing. The fortune teller thing too. Muy bien!

The other stuff though - I have to tell you, you're reading way too much into minute details that have virtually nothing to do with outcomes of cases. Witness evidence, physical evidence, and guilt are all randomly determined without reference to the storyline or the particulars of its characters. When determining a sleuthing strategy, it's best to build it around the one, single immutable law of sleuth:

PE + fake/no alibi = GUILTY
WE+ fake/no alibi = GUILTY
2WE = GUILTY