>> I’ve been thinking recently about detective games, and in particular, the “deduction mechanic” — the gameplay system of linking “facts” together to produce a

>> I’ve been thinking recently about detective games, and in particular, the “deduction mechanic” — the gameplay system of linking “facts” together to produce a new and interesting conclusions that forward the story. Pedant's corner: deriving new facts from known facts is logical abduction, not decudtion. The way that Sherlock reasons is abductive reasoning, although he calls it deduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning#A_Theory_of_Probable_Inference_(1883) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning#A_Theory_o... I guess the term never really caught on in the popular language.