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Accuse
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About the game
You arrive at a big old house as the detective on the case. There has been a murder, the culprit is one of three guests, Ms Pepper, Mr Salt or Mr Thyme, and the weapon was a gun, a knife or a jar of poison. All you have to work with is a handful of rooms, the suspects themselves and the right to accuse somebody.
Every accusation names a suspect and a weapon and is made in the room you are standing in, with both of them there with you. The answer only says whether any part of it is right. Each new accusation has to be completely different from the last one, so you need to think ahead, herd the suspects around and fetch the weapons to narrow it down. The clock is running: the goal is to name the murderer, the weapon and the room in as little game time as possible.
David A. Wheeler wrote Accuse in 2007 to try out Inform 7, which was brand new then. The suspects, the weapons and the solution are placed at random each time, so you can play it again and again, a bit like a pocket version of a board game whodunit. Nothing gory happens on screen; it is a logic puzzle with a murder mystery coat of paint.
Playing it here
Click Play now and the story starts in the player. Type a command after the >
prompt and press Enter. The game is in English. The status line shows the
game time, which only starts counting with your first move.
Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
north, south, east, west, up, down (or n, s, e, w, u, d) |
walk |
look (l) |
describe the room and who is in it |
take / drop something |
carry a weapon with you, or leave it |
name, go direction |
send a suspect to another room, for example salt, go east |
accuse suspect with weapon |
make an accusation in the room you are in |
give up |
stop and see the solution |
help |
the rules and the full list of commands |
save / restore |
keep your progress in this browser and load it back |
A few things worth knowing
Bring everything together. The suspect and the weapon have to be in the same room as you before you can accuse anyone.
Plan your sequence. Since no accusation may repeat anything from the one before, think about the order in which you test suspects, weapons and rooms.
Every step costs time. Walking and giving orders both move the clock, and some suspects argue before doing what you ask, so short routes pay off.
Play it more than once. The answer changes every game, and a second try is usually much faster than the first.
Credits and licence
Accuse was written by David A. Wheeler. The version served here is Release 4 (serial 070321). The author released the game as free software under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or any later version, and asks that modified versions credit him. The licence text and the source text of this release are linked from this page.