Clues By Sam

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What's new

Even more settings (Jul 10th 2026)

You can now choose a more dimmed look for flavour clues

Changing the color picker side now also swaps the corner tags to the other side. Nice for left-handed people!

New settings

The new Settings button takes you to a view where you can customize some aspects of this website.

Improved corner tag sharing

Sharing a scenario now includes all colors in both corners, not only the basic colors in top right corner as it used to.

Result statistics

If you rank among the top 1% / 5% / 10% / 25% / 50% top solvers by<br>speed, you will be congratulated accordingly

Also, if you achieve a perfect solve, you'll be told how many others<br>managed to do the same.

Stats refresh every time you come back, and they won't be visible<br>for the very first solvers.

Corner tag improvements

In addition to tapping on the top right corner to tag persons, you can<br>also:

Long-press on top-half of the card to show a color palette with<br>more colors

Long-press on bottom-half of the card to tag the bottom right<br>corner

Puzzle Pack #2

New pack is available! You can get all-new puzzles while<br>supporting the game. Check out<br>this page<br>for more details.

How to play Clues by Sam

Your goal is to figure out<br>who is criminal and<br>who is innocent.

Based on what you know, tap on a suspect to choose if they are<br>innocent or criminal. They might reveal a new clue.

You cannot guess! Just like in real life, you can't convict someone<br>based on a 50/50 hunch. There is always a logical next choice, even<br>when you think there isn't!

If you're prevented from making something you believe is a logical choice, you missed something.<br>The puzzles are verified by foolproof algorithms, the puzzles are always 100% correct.

You can also check one of the awesome YouTube tutorials below.

And that's it. Good luck!

Clarifying details

Everyone is either a criminal or innocent.

Professions don't make someone innocent or criminal, unless a hint<br>suggest so. A cop is as criminal as an accountant until proven<br>otherwise.

Everyone speaks the truth , even the criminals.

Neighbors always include diagonal neighbors. One person can<br>have up to 8 neighbors.

In between (or sometimes just between) means the persons<br>between the two, not including the two.

Connected means a chain of orthogonal adjacency. For example<br>"all criminals in row 1 are connected" means there are no innocents<br>between any two criminals in that row. A group of one person is<br>considered connected<br>(like in graph theory), so it doesn't mean there are at least two.

Rows go sideways and are numbered 1,2,3,4,5. Columns go<br>up and down and lettered A,B,C,D.

Above/below always means somewhere in the same column.

To the left/right always means somewhere in the same row (from<br>your point of view, not the person's).

Directly to the left/right/above/below always means the<br>neighbor to the left/right/above/below.

All always means there's at least one. It doesn't necessarily<br>mean there're more than one.

Both means there're exactly 2.

Common neighbors means those who are neighbors of both persons.<br>It does not include the persons themselves.

Share means "have in common". For example, "Share an odd number<br>of innocent neighbors" means "have an odd number of common innocent<br>neighbors".

In total always means the sum of all in the group(s). Two<br>criminal cops and cooks in total means there might be 1 cop and 1<br>cook, or 0 cops and 2 cooks, or 2 cops and 0 cooks.

Corner means the four corners.

Edge means the 14 persons "surrounding" the board, including<br>corners.

... the most always means uniquely the most. If John has the<br>most criminal neighbors, no one can have as many criminal neighbors as<br>John.

An even number means numbers divisible by two: 0, 2, 4, 6... and an<br>odd number means everything else: 1, 3, 5, 7...

More doesn't mean there needs to be any in the lesser group.<br>For example "There are more innocents in row A than row B" doesn't<br>require there to be any innocents in row B.

Numbers are exact unless stated otherwise. "There are 2 criminal<br>coders" means there're exactly 2 criminal coders.

Person means anyone in the grid, including animals and other non-humans in some special puzzles.

"If A then B" does NOT mean the same as "If and only if A then B".<br>Therefore it does NOT mean "If not A then not B". But please note<br>that, due to how logic works, it DOES mean "If not B then not A".<br>(It's called the<br>contraposition.)

You never need to guess. In fact, the game only allows you to<br>make logical choices.

Tips

People are in alphabetical order by name.

Tap the top right corner of each card to add a color...