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So Nanjo wasn't the culprit after all, huh? Well, my thoughts on the subject go pretty much like this:
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In all honestly, I had actually considered something like this very early on, when Kinjo had first explained the rules to us. The reason I dropped this idea so early on though, is because if you look at how Kinjo words the rules, they appear to be almost specifically designed to discourage a strategy like this. He specifically makes it a point to put the words “Three Theories only” in all caps, and immediately afterward proceeds to tell us each theory must explain all three questions. If he had intended to allow, or even encourage such a strategy, this is the absolute worst way to explain the rules, and really feels like a bit of a low blow. If he wanted us to solve it by proposing one piece of a theory at a time, and deny them one by one, well, that’s really not all that different from your typical red/blue truth battle is it? He outright tells us plainly this is not how the game was designed to be played. If it turned out he would have allowed such practices all along, II have to say I’d be more than a little annoyed with him. If we can’t trust the rules of the game, it’s the same as being unable to trust the red truth itself.
Besides that though, even if he did end up allowing us to play the game like that, should we? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it’s a useless idea or that it wouldn’t work, quite the opposite probably. To me though, squeezing small pieces of information out of him bit by bit like that seems more like exploitation of the system than genuine creativity. We wouldn’t be using our analytical or deductive skills to win, at least not without an enormous handicap. Now, maybe it’ll turn out to be that Kinjo’s answer is so farfetched that only he would have been able to solve it as it’s creator, but If this really is a truly fair and solvable mystery no matter who tackles it, as he suggests it is, it should be possible for us to reason out all three of the questions from nothing but the game itself and formulate the correct answer from there. If we can’t do that in three tries, maybe we don’t deserve to win.
That said, we’ve only used a single guess, and it’s far from the end of the world. We just need to look over things more carefully, pinpoint any inconsistencies we missed, and perhaps look into other approaches when it comes to reasoning things out. The Sherlock Holmes method seems like a particularly strong theme in this game; maybe there’s a way to utilize it that we haven’t thought of yet?
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