🏠 Latenight, sea tides... make you wanna close your eyes... 🏠

📕Story Background

On a hot summer day, a blind young heiress was kidnapped. After her family paid the ransom, she was safely returned home three days later. The girl told the police that her kidnappers appeared to be a young couple, and she believed she'd been locked in a small seaside cottage.

She vividly recalled, "I could hear waves crashing and smell the seaside air. I seemed to be locked in an attic with my hands tied. It was extremely stuffy during the day, but at night a slight breeze coming from the front made it more comfortable."

The police immediately searched the seaside area, discovering three small cottages close to each other. Each belonged to a different young couple, all empty and spotlessly clean, leaving no evidence behind. The three cottages were nearly identical, except their attic windows faced different directions: one faced north, one south, and one west.

Unable to determine precisely where the girl had been kept, the police asked the famous detective Poirot for help. Poirot reviewed these key facts:

• All cottages were structurally identical, with attic windows facing north, south, and west respectively.
• The ocean lay to the south, hills to the north, and a beach between hills and ocean to the west.
• During the girl's captivity, the weather was clear and sunny, with no wind at all during the day.

After considering this carefully, Poirot confidently identified the correct cottage.

Can you deduce which cottage the girl was held in?

(This story is absolutely fictional. Any inconsistencies with common sense work for the plot)

🔍Known Clues

1. It feels different when you're chilling at the seaside during the day compared to at night.
2. Attention to natural phenomenon. Enjoy the breeze.

🕵️‍Questions and Discussions for YOU

1. WHICH cottage was the girl held captive? HOW can you tell?
2. If you own a seaside cottage, how would you furnish and decorate it? (Open-ended)

🎉Participation Rewards

The FIRST user to successfully deduce the identity of the "culprit" and their motive in the comment, will receive a reward of 2,000 GT points! Other participants will earn 200-500 GT points based on the completeness of their submissions. 💰

📅Submission Deadline

April 11, 2025

Reminder: This is the submission deadline if you want to claim the reward with your vote, but after this date the vote will still remain open for a period of time, so please feel free to participate at any time if you want to test your skills, detectives!

----- Previous answer (Patience or Greed) -------

The plant leaves faced the wrong way.

Joseph noticed that the leaves of the plant were leaning toward the portrait, meaning they had spent several days turned toward a source of sunlight reflecting off the portrait. If Sonny had genuinely waited four days before entering, the leaves would have grown toward the window, the actual source of direct sunlight. Thus, Sonny had moved the plant earlier, unknowingly leaving evidence of his premature entry.

Link to the post: [Vote] Patience or Greed - Detective Game – Gtarcade Discussion Forum Official Forum

We will be rewarding 200 GT points to all players who voted correctly, and additional points to some outstanding responses.

Congratulations and enjoy your juicy GT points reward!!!

🎁 Additional Reward Rule

We greatly appreciate everyone's willingness and time to participate in our new community discussion event, the Detective Game.

While there is only one "correct" answer we've prepared, we will reward anyone who comes up with a genuine deduction process and actively engages in this event with a random amount of EXTRA GT Points based on the quality of their answer.

We will carefully review and select the best comments, so don't worry detectives, join in and earn your points!

Note: We have now reclassified the Detective Game back under the Votes category to enhance event navigation and streamline the reward claim process using the VOTE function. (Please note that this change is not permanent and may be subject to future adjustments)