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Very fun and original, I love imperfect information games. Took me ~20 clues and a bit of guess work for this one.

I didn't see a description of what the titles meant (is "constable" good?).

What kind of data structures and algorithms did you use to represent the game, find a solution, and choose the clues?

Thanks a lot. I'm planing to add the exact description to each rank very soon. The "constable" is the lowest rank, motivated by this definition:

> a British police officer of the lowest rank

However, since English is not my native language, I don't know how easy to understand this is.

Regarding the data structures, the engine generates a complete program represents the mystery. Then, it uses fuzz testing to find a solution (and minimizes the number of clues). The engine to generate the mysteries will be open-source soon!

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