Process of Elimination Cheats and Tips
Pay Attention To The Dialogue
For example, suppose one of your intervenable characters is near an Evidence Square. In that case, you can command said character to inspect the square via a preliminary. After the inspection, you can order another character to analyze the evidence. Now you performed two essential steps in one turn!
Let’s continue our example: what could happen after the evidence gets analyzed in a preliminary investigation? That evidence may trigger the appearance of a new Mystery Point. Now you can use any available characters to infer and resolve the point.
Wait! We’re not done. As an investigation progresses, formerly unavailable characters become intervenable. So, you could resolve the MP above via a preliminary and gain a new intervenable character. That means you’ll earn an additional action in the same turn. Now that’s excellent value!
Preliminary investigations can become redundant in some situations. However, if a character’s action may trigger a case breakthrough, you should always first run that action in a preliminary. Then, you can make your following decisions based on that discovery.