AI cases

2nd Case

Another 10 suspect case

This one is very difficult.......no WE contact.

3 evidence with podiatrist

4 suspects need podiatrist for alibi

1 tailor evidence

1 suspect need tailor for alibi

taking a look at what I have, I decided I have only for male threads so I would ask about the thread. How do I choose which suspects to ask about first?

Since 2 of the suspects with male hair have alibis with the Podiatrist, I ask about them first. Both came back not their thread.

This leaves me with a male unkown suspect and a male with fake alibi. Next I ask about Nathan the unknown. If it turns out to be his I'll need to get PE for him. Podiatrist clams up so I must bribe, if it is not Nathans it will belong to the only fake alibi and I can acuse. Lucky for me the only possible person the thread can belong to is Jeffery.

On cases where so much is stacked up on one WE contact, the only possible way to solve is by methods like this. If the piece of evidence was one of the footprints it could only be solved by luck. As is, this case being solved was due to luck as well.

3rd Case

Lets take a closer look. I have found everyone. My PE contact is the tailor.

You will notice so far I have only found alibis for suspects with non PE townie alibis. Now I need to think what I want to do next. Of course that is simple I will now make use of my tailor contact. You can ask your contact first if you like, then get alibis.

After a trip to the silk merchant, this is what we have. Next I will visit the shoe maker and ask about Yi Jie's alibi. His alibi is real, so next I will check Kuan Ti's alibi at the calligraphist. Why? Because if it turns out to be real, I will only have used one question at the shoe makers.

No luck there Kuans alibi is fake. That leaves me with 1 unknown alibi and 2 with the shoe maker. You want to ask about the suspect with the most evidence first. In this case, that would be Blanche.

Okay, I have found all the real alibis and eliminated one piece of evidence.

Instead of ruling out fake alibis, I am going to see if the slim footprint belongs to Blanche. She is the only one with a real alibi that the footprint could belong too. If it does belong to her then I will ask if the hair belongs to Yue Wan.

Lets see what happens.

Not her footprint, which means it belongs to someone with a fake alibi.

Li Qin

Lillian

Kirsten

I had one question left with the shoe maker in the form of a bribe. I asked if the footprint matched Li Qin. It did not, so its off to get WE. I found it matched Kirsten.