Letter Jumble at Crime Scene

[The Immortal Beaver]

I got a random crime (at least I assume it was random) after finishing the tutorial that didn't have much to go on at the scene of the crime. Small caliber firearm murder, strange symbols near the corpse, and a crumpled up paper that said something like "Let's play a game" and had a bunch of letters jumbled up. The format for the answer was _._________ so I assumed it was a name in the city directory, and quickly found it.

Having investigated the person in question, I found pretty quickly that... they have absolutely no connection to the crime whatsoever. No matching prints, a gun of the same type but explicitly printed to someone NOT at the scene of the crime, etc. I know the game just released so I'm not expecting a ton of information to be out there, but I was curious if anyone found anything like this and how they solved it.

As an aside, I have been looking into other leads (where she worked, contacts, etc.) but those have been dead ends so far. Any suggestions would be fantastic!

[Ω Ewigkeit Ω]

Same, no leads

[The Immortal Beaver]

Originally posted by 結城 理:

Same, no leads

Idk if this helps, but I realized I hadn't actually gotten prints off of the note itself. I went through the phonebook to doublecheck, and it turned out that WAS in fact the killer. Arrested him, and that was that.

[Ω Ewigkeit Ω]

Originally posted by The Immortal Beaver:

Originally posted by 結城 理:

Same, no leads

Idk if this helps, but I realized I hadn't actually gotten prints off of the note itself. I went through the phonebook to doublecheck, and it turned out that WAS in fact the killer. Arrested him, and that was that.

Thanks, it did help

[toughy]

Have the same, can't find the name. How can I match the pattern from the paper to a name? Thx in advance.

[Wakuseino]

The main trick is to identify how many unique letters there are in the list, and then take a look at how big the surname is. Then, you figure out all the potential first letters for surnames, and go through the city directory to find ones that match your letter scramble.

(For example, I got a ROKOMO for my letter jumble, so I looked up surnames starting with K in the directory, removing any ones that didn't have a first initial of either K, M, O, or R, and when there were no potential names left, I moved on to M. The result for me ended up being M. Okoro)

[toughy]

Got it, thought too complicated.

[rygzengrho]

For me it was
B C B D 0
-.----
The first part did not look like something you can make a human name of, more like letters to numbers, and the second part looked more like a morse code. So yeah, this one was a bit confusing to solve.

[paul32]

THIS.

I think this is the beauty of this game. Random detectives coming together and trying to solve similar cases.

[rygzengrho]

Ok, if you are excited about trying to solve hard cases, I'll tell the hardest one I seen yet, I am open for suggestions on how to approach it. It is a theft job, and the only things I know about the subject are:
Glasses: No
Facial hair: Yes
Telephone: None
Salary: 15000
First name initial: A

Lack of telephone and low salary suggests this person is a low-life, but that's all I can think of regarding leads. There are a lot of people with name starting with A (I play on the largest map). Low salary could mean anybody: basement worker, street seller, some shop assistant or janitor, and their employment files could be anywhere. I could go through such places, just asking for peoples names, but that's tedious.

[caracal]

I completely avoid anagram notes because they make the game too easy. I literally avoid opening them, I just check them for prints.

[Fat Yoshi ♥♥♥♥ Request]

What's really weird is mine started out completely unsolved. Then at some point, I got a letter to move into part of the puzzle. I just figured it out from there, but I thought it was weird it did that

[Sky Wizard]

Originally posted by Fat Yoshi ♥♥♥♥ Request:

What's really weird is mine started out completely unsolved. Then at some point, I got a letter to move into part of the puzzle. I just figured it out from there, but I thought it was weird it did that

A letter is solved for every murder after the first one. So it seems to me the murderer struck again and nobody found the body.

[J010011113]

For anyone reading this in the future: Read old discussions. They hold ancient knowledge of questions you didn't even know you had.

Originally posted by rygzengrho:

Ok, if you are excited about trying to solve hard cases, I'll tell the hardest one I seen yet, I am open for suggestions on how to approach it. It is a theft job, and the only things I know about the subject are:
Glasses: No
Facial hair: Yes
Telephone: None
Salary: 15000
First name initial: A

Lack of telephone and low salary suggests this person is a low-life, but that's all I can think of regarding leads. There are a lot of people with name starting with A (I play on the largest map). Low salary could mean anybody: basement worker, street seller, some shop assistant or janitor, and their employment files could be anywhere. I could go through such places, just asking for peoples names, but that's tedious.

"Low life"...I guess, if that's how you'd class janitors and receptionists. The salary indicates their job, not their social standing...unless you're really roleplaying the social credit aspect...so, the assumptions that they must be doing something shady, or that it could be anyone, are misleading you.

15000 salary - Janitor, Receptionist, Kitchen hand
Facial Hair: That's a man, baby!
First initial A.

It's a man without glasses in an entry level job which pays the salary in the range of the jobs listed above.

In this case, your best bet would be to carry on with another case and anytime you were in a location that had employee boards, check them and disregard all women, men without facial hair, people with glasses, and people without A as a first initial.
When you think about it, that's a huge percentage of suspects winnowed down per business.

For any location you have to search in the course of carrying on with other investigations, do the same but with employee files.
No need to run ragged, do this casually while going around town.

If you're that intent, though, you could find a city directory and make a note of all addresses of citizens with the first initial "A". Using the directory is a bit more convenient than the government searches, but you're still blind as to details like facial hair, glasses, and sex.

In any event, you have enough evidence to solve this, given time and patience.

[Sphyrwa]

Originally posted by rygzengrho:

For me it was
B C B D 0
-.----
The first part did not look like something you can make a human name of, more like letters to numbers, and the second part looked more like a morse code. So yeah, this one was a bit confusing to solve.

C. DOBB maybe? or D. COBB

[OrelYakiv]

Thank you for this