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Guess The Culprit

StephenNorton 19 Jan 12 at 6:53 p.m. GMT

There are already some interessting guessing games on this website for an instance concerning quotations, characters per se, victimes, objects and the stories. I always admired the way Agatha Christie planed her stories. With an intelligence uncompareable she commited crime by crime without beeing arrested. She was clever enough never to commit the crimes herself, she always used other "innocent" characters to commit them. To honour those interesting characters and theire fantastic crimes I thought about a new guessing game concerning to reveal the culprit whom commited a CRIME.

Let us come to the rules for this little game. They arent different to the other guessing games which have already been established. You describe a character which has commited a crime from one of the Christie stories in 1. Person and the one who makes the right guess shall be next. You may even add a description of the crime commited by the character with your solution, if you like to do so.

to quote from Faust by Johan Wolfgang von Goethe: "Words enough have been exchanged, let me at last see some action", with this I shall begin:

" I was forced to commit a crime, for there was no other alternative."

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StephenNorton 20 Jan 12 at 12:05 p.m. GMT

you are propably right, I  realy havent thought this idea through^^ oh the culprit was not from this novel, but thank you for the test run^^

Nofret 20 Jan 12 at 11:17 a.m. GMT

It's a good idea for a new game, except that most of the guesses are likely to contain spoilers, unless given in a very roundabout way! For example, I'll start the ball rolling by guessing that it's the main killer in Hickory Dickory Dock, talking about his very first murder, after which he was forced to change his name.