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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soviet" data-source="post: 9829371" data-attributes="member: 6925338">I haven't played the games being discussed but I work as an investigator in real life and I've definitely learned that you never (or almost never) really know 100% what's happened. You can build evidence and see patterns and figure out broadly what happened and how, but there are always little details that you don't understand or that don't quite fit. Real life is complicated. Even when matters go to court you sometimes wonder if there is some bizarre explanation they might be able to provide that blows your theory out of the water. Even when people plead guilty or (in civil matters) choose not to contest, it's rarely accompanied by a confession and there are always questions left unanswered. So, there is never a word of God moment when you know definitively 'this is what happened, and how, and why'. I remember one part of my training was a timed exercise involving a bunch of suspects and then a complex network of 'if a then b, if c then not d' type clues. Basically if you took a top-down approach and tried to put all the clues into a formula and then see which suspect it matched, you would run out of time. The only way to solve it was to just pick a suspect and work through the questions until you ruled them out, then pick another suspect and work through the questions until you ruled them out, and so on until you either got a match or you ran out of time.</blockquote>