How to commit murder inside a locked room
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How to commit murder inside a locked room
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#2See Vanity Fair's excellent long-form article "The Body in Room 348" for a real life example! https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/true-crime-elegan...
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#3That just gave me a crazy idea for a game, based on some similar books I've read online. Make a game where, say, you revive every time and your goal is to survive some set period of time but it's a mystery how to do so as many things are out to kill you. Say you have X hours before a large bomb will wipe out your city or whatever and several folks are waiting to kill you in the mean time or such and the goal is basically a rather large escape room with survival as the prize.
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#4Saw this on Battlestar Galactica, killer vents the atmosphere from an external control box and escapes unseen. Later on its noticed that everyone in the room has died. ;) You think there would be alarms on an engineering station someplace that would fire off when the atmosphere gets thin.
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#5By coincidence I have just finished JDC's "The Three Coffins" (AKA "The Hollow Man") [0], written in 1935, where at one point one of the characters break the fourth wall. He talks directly to the reader and laments that in the end the reader will be disappointed in the solution. Which I was, slightly.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Man_(Carr_novel)
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#6That just gave me a crazy idea for a game, based on some similar books I've read online. Make a game where, say, you revive every time and your goal is to survive some set period of time but it's a mystery how to do so as many things are out to kill you. Say you have X hours before a large bomb will wipe out your city or whatever and several folks are waiting to kill you in the mean time or such and the goal is basic…
You might like the game Twelve Minutes, your comment reminds me of it:
https://twelveminutesgame.com/
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#7Is it safe to click?
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#8In locked room mysteries the evidence seems to be saying that there are zero ways the crime could have happened. This makes them nice to solve because as soon as you work out one way it could have happened it's usually clear that it's the only way. Whereas with other murder mysteries you have multiple suspects and even if you have a guess there's no way to rule out everyone else.
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#10That just gave me a crazy idea for a game, based on some similar books I've read online. Make a game where, say, you revive every time and your goal is to survive some set period of time but it's a mystery how to do so as many things are out to kill you. Say you have X hours before a large bomb will wipe out your city or whatever and several folks are waiting to kill you in the mean time or such and the goal is basic…
Edge of Tomorrow builds on a similar premise (Tom Cruise explores a decision tree): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/