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Sized-Up Text, Smarter Highlights, and a New Clue Type!

Improved readability, click-to-highlight character references, added the new 'K of J Role Neighbor Someone Is Another’s Neighbor' clue type, plus fixes to its directional variants.

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Over the past week, Clues of Who has quietly leveled up again!
Today’s update focuses on readability, clearer character referencing, and—most excitingly—a brand-new clue type that opens up some truly spicy deduction chains.

📏 Text Sized Up for Easy Reading

A highly requested improvement:
All puzzle text, character names, and clue blocks have been scaled up for mobile clarity.
No more squinting or pinching to zoom — the entire puzzle is easier to scan at a glance so you can stay in deduction-flow mode.

🔍 Clicking Revealed Characters Now Highlights Mentions

This feature feels small but massively boosts usability:

  • When you click a revealed character,
  • Every clue that references that character now lights up.

This makes backtracking deductions dramatically faster — no more hunting manually through clue blocks to remember who mentioned whom.
It’s especially useful in late-game puzzles when the clue web gets dense.

🧩 New Clue Type:

K of J Role Neighbor Someone Is Another’s Neighbor

This one is fun.

Starting with puzzle #3, we’ve introduced a new rule pattern:

“K of J neighboring X are also neighbors of Y.”

This creates deduction paths where you must reason about:

  • shared neighbors
  • overlapping adjacency sets
  • roles that appear in constrained geometric patterns

It adds a richer, more interconnected logic flavor—less “isolated arithmetic,” more “village gossip geometry.”

🎯 Example (not from an actual puzzle):

“Exactly 2 of the 3 innocents beside Mira are also Leo’s neighbors.”

This forces spatial reasoning in all directions and creates elegant deduction pivots that feel very satisfying.

🛠 Fix for Directional K-of-J Variants

We extended the same rule to positional variants:

  • K of J role above X
  • K of J role below X
  • K of J role left of X
  • K of J role right of X

To keep clues logically meaningful:

  • K is never 0, and
  • the two referenced characters always share at least one neighbor,
    ensuring the rule produces real deductions rather than empty conditions.

More improvements are coming — including more Werewolf-style voice clues and deeper mystery-world immersion.
If you haven’t solved today’s puzzle yet, enjoy the new logic toys… and see if today’s overlapping-neighbor clue trips you up!

Happy deducing! 🔍🐺