Training
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A parked car, Monday morning

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Field notes
The craft
How the eye is trained: the method, the reps, the science.
Visual Deduction 101Start here
9 min read
How to extract meaning from what you can see, and why photographs are the ideal training ground.
How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
8 min read
The mental habits that separate Holmes from everyone else in the room.
The 7 Methods of Sherlock Holmes
8 min read
Every investigative technique Holmes uses across the 60 stories, and which ones you can practise.
The Science of Deduction
10 min read
What Sherlock Holmes actually meant, and how to practise it yourself.
Deduction vs Induction vs Abduction
8 min read
Sherlock Holmes almost never uses deduction. Here is what he actually does.
Observation Skills Training
9 min read
A structured method for seeing what everyone else filters out.
How to Improve Your Attention to Detail
8 min read
Why you miss obvious things, and the one habit that fixes it.
Deductive Reasoning Exercises: 10 Drills to Run Today
8 min read
Ten concrete drills, from syllogisms to the Wason task, that you can run with paper, a timer, and one photograph.
Kim's Game: The Observation Exercise Behind Sniper Training
7 min read
A memory drill from a 1901 spy novel that still trains observers today.
Sherlock Holmes Reading Order
7 min read
All 60 stories in the order that makes the most sense for a first-time reader.
The wider field
The daily deduction landscape, mapped and compared.
Best Daily Deduction Games in 2026
8 min read
A curated comparison of the best daily puzzle games that test reasoning, not just vocabulary.
Murdle vs Clues by Sam: Which Daily Mystery Fits You
6 min read
The two philosophies of the daily deduction puzzle, side by side, with the rest of the field placed around them.
Games Like Murdle: The Best Daily Mystery Alternatives
8 min read
Seven daily mysteries grouped by what you actually liked about Murdle: the grid, the story, or the morning ritual.
Games Like Clues by Sam: What to Play Next
6 min read
The daily deduction games worth your morning after Clues by Sam, grouped by the kind of reasoning you want more of.
Deduction Games Online: Every Kind Worth Playing
7 min read
A map of every kind of deduction game you can play in a browser, sorted by what each one makes you deduce.
Daily Murder Mystery Games Worth Playing in 2026
7 min read
A field guide to the free daily murder puzzles of 2026, from Murdle's authored grids to a machine that commits a new crime every night.
Free Sherlock Holmes Games Online: What Is Actually Good
7 min read
What actually runs free in a browser, what the ad portals really serve, and where the good paid games and the free stories live.