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These are not stories where the detective is clever at you. The evidence is real, it is sitting in specific places, and you have a limited night to go and collect it. The ending is decided by what is actually in your hands when the clock runs out, not by whether you guessed the right name.
Hollowpoint
CASE ONE · CASE FILE 84-1177 · ~20 MIN
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A nine-year-old murder reopens because a storage-unit auction turned up a pistol with a serial number. Detective Ada Reyes has one night, three doors, and no authority to compel anybody. Three people are lying. Only one of them killed him, and the other two are each holding a piece of the proof. Five endings, decided entirely by the evidence you bothered to collect.
HOLLOWPOINT
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The Constant
CASE TWO · 15 NODES · ~15 MIN
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Every time Henry Vance falls asleep he wakes into a life that has been quietly rearranged, different job, different wife, different dead. Nothing carries over except him. Find the three things that survive the change and you find out what is doing it. Four endings, routed by how much you proved.
THE_CONSTANT
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The Seventh Floor
CASE THREE · LOCKED ROOM · ~15 MIN
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Nobody went up. Nobody came down. Both logs are honest and one of the building's three clocks is lying. Four witnesses, one weekend, five endings.
LOCKED_ROOM
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Paper Trail
CASE FOUR · WHITE COLLAR · ~12 MIN
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Nobody died. Four hundred and six people lost everything, and every signature is genuine. Nine boxes, eleven days, and one sheet of paper that is not like the others.
PAPER_TRAIL
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The Alibi Engine
CASE FIVE · 27 NODES · 6 ENDINGS
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Quietus sells absence. For a fee it fills your phone with a plausible evening you did not have, so the person hunting you cannot find you in the data. Forty-one of Odile Fenwick's clients are women hiding from men who have promised to kill them. The forty-second bought four hours on the eleventh of March. Work out which record on that night cannot be forged.
BOTH_COLUMNS
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