People
Thinking
Nouns
Solving the Mystery
Extra Tricky Words!
100
Person who solves crimes.
What is a sleuth or a detective?
100
To solve the problem.
What is problem solve?
100
The ending to a book.
What is the conclusion?
100
What people leave behind when they touch things or handle them with their hands.
What are fingerprints?
100
To ask questions or seek information from people.
What is to interrogate?
200
Person who steals things or commits a crime.
What is a thief or culprit?
200
To combine things you observe with things you think and come up with a good prediction.
What is to infer?
200
When you make a smart prediction based on what you see and what you think, you are making an...
What is an inference?
200
Items left behind that help detectives determine who committed the crime
What is evidence? (Clues gets half credit)
200
A feeling or a guess about something.
What is a hunch?
300
Person who is thought to maybe commit a crime.
What is a suspect?
300
To bring something to an end.
What is conclude?
300
When detectives check out a crime scene, they are conducting an...
What is an investigation?
300
Tool used by sleuths to look at things close up.
What is a magnifying glass?
300
Someone who is guilty of committing a crime, often referred to on TV as a "perp."
What is a perpetrator?
400
Person who experiences a crime.
What is a victim?
400
To arrive at a fact by using reason, thinking, or problem solving.
What is deduce?
400
When someone gives you their excuse for why they could not be the culprit, they are giving you their...
What is alibi?
400
What police or detectives do to try and determine who did the crime when they go and check out a crime scene or collect evidence.
What is to investigate?
400
Someone who deceives you by impersonating another.
What is an imposter?
500
Person who sees a crime.
What is a witness?
500
To put pieces of information together in a new way and come up with a new idea.
What is synthesize?
500
Someone's reason for committing a crime is their...
What is motive?
500
Biological clues that are left behind that link to one person scientifically.
What is DNA?
500
A false lead that throws the investigator off track
What is a red herring?
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