The same shape and the same trick: twenty people on four columns and five rows, criminal or innocent, and each correct call releases the statement that person carried, so the grid documents itself as you go. Free archive, no account, and it refuses a verdict you have not proved.
The Best Clues By Sam Alternatives
Top daily mystery games like Clues By Sam
Guilty or innocent, twenty times over, and never on a hunch. These daily puzzles share the promise that makes Clues by Sam work: the board is always solvable, so a fifty-fifty means you are reading the wrong corner.
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Games like Clues By Sam
Drops the verdict entirely. Six suspects, six weapons, six rooms, and you arrange the evening until the guilty room falls out of it. A tile costs nothing until you lock it, so a hypothesis is free to test. Free archive, no account.
Hands you the complete case file at the start rather than releasing it as you solve: suspects, weapons, locations and motives, all readable before your first mark. Longer, wordier, and no account needed.
Swaps the grid for an investigation you read: a briefing, suspects to interrogate, evidence to examine, then the killer, the weapon and the motive, inside ten moves. Freemium, and paying buys five more moves.
Choosing between them
Which of these also reveal clues as I solve?
Griductive, and it is the reason to try it first. A correct call there frees the statement that person was carrying, exactly as flipping a card here can uncover a new clue. Murdle gives you the full set at the start, and Alibi gives you all its pictogram clues up front too.
Which one punishes a wrong move least?
Griductive, which refuses a verdict you cannot prove and gives feedback on an error without closing the case. Alibi is close behind, since a tile commits you to nothing until you lock it, though locking a wrong one does leave a mark.
Can I catch up on grids I missed?
All four keep an archive. Griductive and Alibi hand theirs over with no account at all, while Clues by Sam asks you to sign in before it opens last week. Daily Detective lists an archive on its own page, though it does not say on what terms.