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Comment by rockfishroll

9 days ago

I solved all of them. Minor nitpick: Since every criminal confesses to their crime, the fastest way to solve most of these is to query the confessions table for strings like '%i did%' or '%kill%'.

Haha. You found a cheat code I guess. I would have to think of hiding the answers from plain sight for the next cases or adding some more rows that include these specific strings.

That's how I solved #3, still trying to reverse-engineer the correct solution.

  • Isn't that the reversed method? You mean you're now trying to solve the crime the normal way instead of jumping to the last page of the book first?

    • Hmm it still feels apt, reverse-engineering anything is effectively starting at the last page of the book.