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Its really a very good story puzzle Ghorpm:)
I've read your answers and I'm really impressed by your imagination but it seems it may lead you astray. You speculate way too much. It's a really nice story about the doctor drugging other guests but you have no chance at all to prove it using the testimonies I gave you. Sure, in real life you could question them a bit more but it's just a game so everything I gave you should be sufficient. I can give you two little hints:
- Pay attention to the facts that I gave you at the beginning - they are undoubtedly truthful
- There must be some simplifications in games like this and a standard assumption is that an innocent person is telling the truth. I'll give you an simple example: both colonel and doctor claims that Andersons were not "flawless citizens". Even if one of them is a murderer the second one is innocent so it must be the truth anyway (of course you know it already form the facts so I'm not giving you any additional clues here)
Not in as I suck at these things as you may recall :P +1 regardless.
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Ghorpm: I've read your answers and I'm really impressed by your imagination but it seems it may lead you astray. You speculate way too much. It's a really nice story about the doctor drugging other guests but you have no chance at all to prove it using the testimonies I gave you. (snip)
Interesting, I thought if my theory was wrong then the Doctor drugging them must've been the solution! I'm really intrigued to the answer now :)

My solution's still for the Biologist, though presumably it was wrong too: at around Midnight he killed the Andersons in their sleep, then returns to his room and sets his alarm for 11am to ensure he has an alibi of being found drugged asleep, then finally he takes the powerful 12 hour sleeping tablet (not during supper as he claims). And as drennan pointed out, if it's a wind-up alarm clock that he'd already set for '11' back at 8pm then it would have simply gone off during the night at 11pm. Unlike a 24-hour electronic clock that could deal with am/pm, wind-up clocks don't, so setting it for 11 at 8pm would have just disturbed everybody (or at least Allison) only 3 hours later, not 15, which didn't happen. That would prove he must have set his alarm some time after 11pm, which in turn prove his story and alibi is a lie.

(In fairness I had thought of that too, if entirely failed to explain it! :D It's why I said he might've meant to set it for 11pm, I meant that he then forgot to turn the alarm setting off so it also went at 11am. Otherwise, and more likely a reason, I assumed that he'd only set it after committing the crime to ensure his discovery in the morning drugged asleep to provide his alibi).

The only alternative I can think of comes down to whether you class a wind-up alarm clock as an electrical or mechanical device; if it's still electronic then we instantly know that Allison must be lying, as we know for sure nobody had brought or was allowed any electronic devices. Although that wouldn't really prove how she did it, just that she lied! :)
Post edited June 12, 2013 by Timelord1963
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Ghorpm: I've read your answers and I'm really impressed by your imagination but it seems it may lead you astray. You speculate way too much. It's a really nice story about the doctor drugging other guests but you have no chance at all to prove it using the testimonies I gave you. (snip)
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Timelord1963: Interesting, I thought if my theory was wrong then the Doctor drugging them must've been the solution! I'm really intrigued to the answer now :)

My solution's still for the Biologist, though presumably it was wrong too: at around Midnight he killed the Andersons in their sleep, then returns to his room and sets his alarm for 11am to ensure he has an alibi of being found drugged asleep, then finally he takes the powerful 12 hour sleeping tablet (not during supper as he claims). And as drennan pointed out, if it's a wind-up alarm clock that he'd already set for '11' back at 8pm then it would have simply gone off during the night at 11pm. Unlike a 24-hour electronic clock that could deal with am/pm, wind-up clocks don't, so setting it for 11 at 8pm would have just disturbed everybody (or at least Allison) only 3 hours later, not 15, which didn't happen. That would prove he must have set his alarm some time after 11pm, which in turn prove his story and alibi is a lie.
This was also my work hypothesis (stumbled onto the 11h thing by thinking "how could the no-electricity rule could be relevant to the plot"), but the problem would be McCrary going : "What? What clock? I didn't wind up any clock at all ! My alarm didn't ring at 11am either ! What is that girl talking about ?"

I still thing that it is the solution, as it makes use of the setting's premise. But I don't think that Hayes' words alone would stand in front of the tribunal...

For me, all depends on who would tell the truth about that clock : did it or did it not ring at 11am. If it was set to ring at 11, then McCrary lies. Of course, Hayes could only pretend that it didn't ring at 11pm, but the thing is, McCrary complains about having "botched his training" because he woke up at 11am (awakened by Hayes instead of the clock), so he would have planned to botch it anyway...

Hayes and/or McCrary lie.
Post edited June 12, 2013 by Telika
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Timelord1963: Interesting, I thought if my theory was wrong then the Doctor drugging them must've been the solution! I'm really intrigued to the answer now :)

My solution's still for the Biologist, though presumably it was wrong too: at around Midnight he killed the Andersons in their sleep, then returns to his room and sets his alarm for 11am to ensure he has an alibi of being found drugged asleep, then finally he takes the powerful 12 hour sleeping tablet (not during supper as he claims). And as drennan pointed out, if it's a wind-up alarm clock that he'd already set for '11' back at 8pm then it would have simply gone off during the night at 11pm. Unlike a 24-hour electronic clock that could deal with am/pm, wind-up clocks don't, so setting it for 11 at 8pm would have just disturbed everybody (or at least Allison) only 3 hours later, not 15, which didn't happen. That would prove he must have set his alarm some time after 11pm, which in turn prove his story and alibi is a lie.
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Telika: This was also my work hypothesis (stumbled onto the 11h thing by thinking "how could the no-electricity rule could be relevant to the plot"), but the problem would be McCrary going : "What? What clock? I didn't wind up any clock at all ! My alarm didn't ring at 11am either ! What is that girl talking about ?"

I still thing that it is the solution, as it makes use of the setting's premise. But I don't think that Hayes' words alone would stand in front of the tribunal...
And that's exactly the point where you have outsmarted yourself! ;) You were actually the first one who solved the mystery but then undermined your own answer. Think carefully: If the alarm clock didn't ring at 11 am then what Allison was doing in McCrary's room? He would immediately accuse her that she tried to murder him as well. No, he knew that her visit was legitimate, in fact he arranged it himself to have a credible alibi.

drennan was very close to solve the mystery as well but he made a small technical mistake: old fashioned alarm clock wouldn't ring twice - it would ring only once at 11 pm.

So the prize will go to Timelord1963 and since Telika already has Blackwell bundle drennan will get the second one.

Thank you for taking part in this game and big thanks to Momo1991 and lugum for their generosity!
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Ghorpm: And that's exactly the point where you have outsmarted yourself! ;) You were actually the first one who solved the mystery but then undermined your own answer. Think carefully: If the alarm clock didn't ring at 11 am then what Allison was doing in McCrary's room? He would immediately accuse her that she tried to murder him as well. No, he knew that her visit was legitimate, in fact he arranged it himself to have a credible alibi.
D'oh.
Congrats to the winners, and thanks again, Ghorpm!

Thanks to Momo and lugum as well for their generosity. :)
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Thespian*: Congrats to the winners, and thanks again, Ghorpm!

Thanks to Momo and lugum as well for their generosity. :)
Yeah! :D
Also, what was the mobile ? I always feel that there are full background stories, in these games' settings, that are not "used" in the solution, but that are part of their construction...
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Telika: Also, what was the mobile ? I always feel that there are full background stories, in these games' settings, that are not "used" in the solution, but that are part of their construction...
I must admit I was curious whether somebody would point that the background story is somewhat weak here ;) But the reason is... I'm actually planing to continue this story! After arresting McCrary you will move on to investigate his laboratory and there you will find his connection with Andersons as well as... another mystery to solve!

I cannot promise it though! My initial idea for this lab-mystery has a serious drawback that still needs some polishing. But liked the idea of episodes very much so I decided to hide a few facts about McCrary and Andersons relations ;)
Haha

Okay, I remembered that you had two ready(-ish) games, so I suppose the second one was the sequel. It's a good idea. I hope you'll manage to LINK THEM TO ALL THE PREVIOUS GIVEAWAYS. After all, there was a lab crime too, if I remember well...

If it happens next month, I might be able to provide the bounty (while still participating in a "not in" way). We'll see...
Heh the head at the school I work at is called 'Alison Hayes'
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Ghorpm: So the prize will go to Timelord1963 and since Telika already has Blackwell bundle drennan will get the second one.

Thank you for taking part in this game and big thanks to Momo1991 and lugum for their generosity!
Yay! Thanks for the fun mystery :) Thanks Momo and lugum for the prizes too and +1 stuff, but I already have the Blackwell games - so if you want to award it to someone else or else hold it for another puzzle, that's fine by me :D

Actually, I can give you a prize code for your next whodunnit giveaway too, if you want it? :)
thanks for the giveaway, im not in, but here is some Rep +1