[Vote] Flow, Fraud, and Fatality- Detective Game

🌃 Fake suicide, fraudulent scene, the fatality it deemed 🌃

📕Story Background

It was a quiet morning when police officer Bolt received an urgent call — the millionaire Mr. Gales had been found dead in his study.

When Bolt arrived, the room smelled faintly of gunpowder. Gales was lying in his chair, his head slumped to one side, a pistol still gripped in his right hand. Blood had pooled on the carpet beneath him.

On the desk beside him lay a business proposal, a suicide note, and an electric fan.

In the note, Gales wrote that his company had fallen into ruin and that he could no longer endure the humiliation of failure. At first glance, everything pointed to suicide — a desperate businessman unable to face bankruptcy.

Everyone in town accepted that story easily. Everyone except Bolt. As an officer who’d known Gales personally, he felt something was off. Gales had always been a fighter, not the sort to surrender easily. So Bolt began to carefully examine every detail of the room.

That’s when he noticed something peculiar — the fan’s power cord was unplugged, and the plug was pinned beneath the corpse. He frowned. “That’s strange… it couldn’t have just slipped out,” he thought. He crouched down, carefully pulled the plug free, and reinserted it into the wall socket. The fan immediately began to spin, bringing winds and they can feel the palpable air flow.

Bolt froze for a moment — then his expression hardened.

“No. This wasn’t suicide,” he muttered. “This was murder.”

Do you know why Officer Bolt said it was a murder, not suicide? Any crucial clue in there?

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

🔍Known Clues

1. The fan was unplugged and the cord trapped beneath the body.
2. Psychology matters, so does physics.

🕵️‍Questions and Discussions for YOU

1. WHY did Officer Bolt say this was not suicide? WHAT was the most crucial and possible clue?
2. Do you think technology makes crimes easier to commit — or easier to solve? Share your thoughts with us. (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

November 14, 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 (Quiet Signal) -------

Correct Answer: House was silent when power back

If the lights had truly gone out while they were watching TV, then when Ross flipped the power back on, the television should have resumed broadcasting sound.

But the house was completely silent. This contradiction proved Harry’s story was fabricated — the power outage was staged to make the murder look like an intrusion in the dark.

Link to the post: https://forum.gtarcade.com/topic/249123

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!!!