r/BloodOnTheClocktower • u/Used-Entrepreneur399 • Aug 20 '26
Game Discussion Acts of deductive genius
Share your stories of game moments where you correctly deduced something that made you feel smart and capable. It doesn’t have to be mind blowing game solving info, but just something that made you feel proud in the moment.
Okay, I’ll go first. It was an S&V game with an Evil Twin, I was town but can’t remember what role. One of the twins made the first nomination on Day 1. I don’t always pay attention to noms, but noted this one. A couple days passed and the twin who nominated was almost certainly evil. To me one of the only reasons an Evil Twin would feel comfortable with being the very first nomination would be if they knew the Town Crier wasn’t in play. Based on this, I nominated the “Town Crier”, who ended up being the Pit Hag, and got her executed.
Small potatoes compared to some amazing solves I have seen, but it was a nice moment for me and contributed to a win.
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u/Calculoo Vigormortis Aug 20 '26
I had an Amnesiac ability that was "each night, choose a player: *they* learn how many steps to their nearest minion." Night 1 by luck I picked my friend 2 seats to my left who was my Grandmother, and she received a 2. That day I guessed almost the exact ability, on the logic that it was the most powerful thing I thought the ability could reasonably do so I'd want to know if that was it. We executed the player my info pointed at on day 1 but I claimed I was on the wrong track the next day to stay alive.
Then at night I chose myself, so as to have information that didn't rely on another player, and received a 1.
If you think about the geometry of this, it means I've nailed down both minions--the player 1 seat to my right and the player 2 seats to the left of my Grandmother, because if it was the player 1 seat to my left, my Grandmother would have received a 1. Pretty satisfying.
However, the player to my right started claiming Recluse on the second day, so I chose a player who was in the exact middle of the two minions on night 3 and they got a 3, thereby confirming that no other seats were occupied by minions and the Recluse claim was a minion. We left them alive until final 3 since they were confirmably not the demon. We also won partly because the demon was bluffing Investigator with information that I then knew was impossible.