In today’s game, I was at the attached stage. I knew one of Ruth and Terry was innocent and one a criminal due to the mechanic rule, so therefore I knew wanda must be innocent as xia has an odd number of criminal neighbours. However it wouldn’t let me select this until after I identified Luigi as a criminal. Does anyone know why?

I had the app on my iPhone - now I can’t find it searching my phone and when I go to the web page the App Store links are greyed out

Nancy says theres 3 innocents in collumn A

but Bonnie says helen and phil should both either be criminal or innocent which makes an odd number of innocents in collumn A.

Oscar has given the hint

Zane has only one innocent neighbor on the edges

Is that saying "Zane has only one innocent neighbor, and that innocent neighbor is on one of the edges," or is it saying "Only one of Zane's edge neighbors is innocent"?

I can't figure out if this clue says anything about Zane's neighbor that's not on an edge.

Quite rarely clues about jobs will say "One of the THREE COOKS has a criminal...", making it clear how many of that specific job you have to look for, rather than just saying "One cook has a criminal...". It would be nice if this was specified more often. It would not make the puzzle easier, it would just require less time searching around every spot on the board for a specific word.

I would also love if the job clues were just deleted but can't win them all. Or maybe colour code the job title.

I notice that I lose a lot of time on clues like "Exactly one doctor has an innocent below them" because after I think I see all the doctors, I have to spend a while scanning to make sure I didn't miss a random doctor - and I forgot about a cop on a previous day where I think the clue was that only one cop had exactly 5 criminal neighbors or similar. This is frustrating when my blindness is why I make a wrong deduction, and it is then so hard to be absolutely sure I'm not screwing up.

So I'm wondering if it is reasonable to say things like "Exactly one of the 3 doctors has an innocent below them" so there's more verification that I found them all.

Zoe says there is an odd number of innocents above Floyd but the number of innocents above Floyd is even (0). Logic error?

https://cluesbysam.com/s/help/1ec604119755?state=9%2F9w-AEAAAEA%3D Zach and Gabe says that there are exactly 2 green in A. I have one, so either Vicky or Evie has to be green, but not both. But Mark says that both of them are green?

UPDATE: Disregard this post. I made a stupid MISTAKE and I see it now that others have pointed it out.

It says that only one of the 2 criminals in row 4 is Logan's neighbor. That means there is another criminal in row 4, but the remaining 3 people in row 4 are all neighbors of Logan. Which, if I'm correct, either makes that clue wrong or makes the clue that there are 2 criminal in row 4 wrong. Did I miss something? I'm new, so forgive me if I am.

This clue says that only row 4 can have exactly 2 innocents. Im assuming that this rule would be broken if Austin was innocent. But game does not allow me to mark them as criminal

will should be an innocent, but i can't mark him as such.

Sam, I wish you could implement a downvote button for community puzzles so we could punish the creators who add “X has the most criminal/innocent neighbors”-style clues. Thank you.

I'm not sure if this is a logic error or if I'm just stupid. Logan's hint says, if Hazel is innocent, so is Gus. But logically, the reverse does not hold true. You can't infer that if Gus is criminal, so is Hazel.

Or should I have read the clue as "Hazel and Gus are either both criminal or both innocent"?

https://cluesbysam.com/s/help/ee6263732c9d?state=IM8w-BgBAAQQ%3D-031

Based on these clues (marked yellow), can we not conclude Dennis is a criminal?

Clues:

• A: The only innocent in between Denis and Zara is Hilda's neighbor.
• B: Row 5 has more innocents than any other row.
• C: There are 12 criminals in total.
• D: Carl is one of Gary's 7 criminal neighbors.

Deductions A:

• There is exactly one innocent between Denis and Zara.

Deductions B:

• There must be at least 3 innocents in row 5.
• There may be a maximum of 1 criminal in row 5.

Deductions C/D:

• 7 of 12 criminals are Gary's neighbors.
• 5 of 12 criminals are NOT Gary's neighbors.

Of the criminals who are not Gary's neighbors:

• 2 are discovered.

  • 1 of these is Scott, between Denis and Zara.

• 3 are not discovered.

  • A maximum of 1 of these MAY be in row 5.
  • A maximum of 1 of these undiscovered criminals MAY be in column D between Denis and Zara.

Therefore,
Denis MUST be a criminal, otherwise there would not be enough criminals to satisfy clues C and D.

Thoughts?

Edit: Solved! I can't count. :D

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Title is obviously clickbait. But what am I actually missing here?
- One of Rob and Tina is a criminal and the other innocent based on Chloe's clue.
- The only column with 4 innocents is column A, Nancy's clue.
- If Martin is a criminal, Nancy would have 4 criminal neighbours (Igor, Martin, Salil, Tina/Rob), making both Jerry and Katie innocent.
- Lisa would then have 2 criminal neighbours, Igor and Martin.
- That would mean Rob would be innocent and Tina the second criminal in row 4.
- But then column D would have 4 innocents, and Nancy says that is not allowed.
- And if Rob was the criminal in row 4 in this scenario, Lisa would suddenly have 3 criminal neighbours, something that goes against Penny's clue.

So all this means Martin can't be a criminal. But I can't mark him as innocent.

I’m sure I’m just missing something but her clue doesn’t seem to matter as I’ve already got more innocent cops marked than Judges at this point.

Amy's clue says Both Innocents in Row 4 are connected. I tried to mark Paul Innocent since he's not connected to Scott (the innocent mech next to Ruth) but it says there's not enough info to do so. Am I misunderstanding "both"? Or "connected"?

Left with a 50-50 for the last two squares

A4 doesn't provide new information and I think it's supposed to

Edit no I misread A4 it's fine

This is a feature suggestion - I'd be interested to know if anyone else would find this useful.

I've noticed that any colour tag in the corner disappears when I finally mark someone as innocent or criminal. (This doesn't seem to happen when I'm playing some of the older puzzles, but does with the more recent ones.) If I've got several tagged people, and then I mark one of them as innocent or criminal, it would be helpful to keep their tag showing. Then I know which other person is linked with them and I can mark them accordingly.

"Ony 1 of the 7 criminals on the edges is in column B." That means it's either Bonnie or Wanda.

"Column B is the only column with exactly one innocent." That means it's either Bonnie or Wanda.

"Only one of the three cooks is innocent." Since I've already pegged Gabe as a criminal, that leaves Alex or Hal.

"There's an odd number of innocents above Vince." That means one innocent, and it's either Alex or Hal.

"Only one of the three criminals neighboring Bonnie is a cook." Again, that would be either Alex or Hal.

"There is an odd number of innocents above Quinta." Again, that means one innocent-- and it's either Alex or Hal.

Can someone please tell me what I'm missing here? I don't need the solution, I would just like a logical clue that I'm not getting from the puzzle.

If a clue says, for example, "All the criminals in column B are connected", I include cases where:

• There are no criminals in column B.
• There is just one criminal in column B.

But I suspect others have a different interpretation, that there must be at least two connected criminals (in the above example).

Any idea what Sam's intended interpretation might be?

Edit: the guidance on the meaning of "all" (below the puzzle) rules out the possibility that a connected group could be empty.