The Science of Deduction

It has been 6 years since this blog was first created. Its purpose has been a refuge, a place for me to get away from the mediocrity of daily life and communicate with some of the intelligent people that humanity has to offer. It has been a privilege watching your knowledge of deduction grow these past years, and as we are approaching the medial of the new year, I think it is time that this blog took a different direction.

Instead of filling this blog with whatever comes to mind, I am creating a poll to query all of you who follow this blog, as well as anyone else who happens to come across this post, about the future content that you want to see here.

Some possibilities include:

1. Daily crime (where I walk you through a step by step detailing of unsolved crimes and how they were most likely committed.)

2. Cryptographic analysis (I post the latest ciphers that I either cannot be bothered to solve or don’t want to).

3. Mind Palace construction (I teach you how to construct your own mind palace, and share a few techniques of my own when it comes to maintaining and retrieving information.)

4. Deduction Help (send in your questions. They can be about anything relating to deduction and I will answer as many as I can.)

5. Photographic analysis (if you happened to capture evidence of something confusing, or you found the unexplainable, send it this way and my readers will help you sort out whatever it is.)

6. Forgotten Cases (I receive hundreds of cases daily, so it is possible for some to become buried and forgotten. If you have a case that was never solved and you still need help with, send it to my inbox here instead of the one on my professional co-uk blog. Any case that I find is beneath my abilities to solve, I will post to this blog for my readers to attempt.)

7. LiveQ&A (no questions about sexual orientation or romantic/sexual preferences will be answered. Keep your questions clean, concise, and to the point).

Voting will be closed by the end of April.

This is John Watson.

Rest assured Sherlock has not abandoned this blog. We both have just been very busy with casework.

I would like to leave you all with something more substantial, but all I can say is he will try to get back to posting before the year is up, and if not, then the beginning of next year.

My sincerest apologies to you all on behalf of Sherlock.

There’s been a lot of new developments and obligations lately, but I will be back in full form on the 1st of November. I will be announcing the results of the poll on that day and creating new content accordingly. Thank you for your patience.

Now that I am officially active on this platform once again, I think it best to tackle one of the more mundane tasks that come with owning a popular blog. However, due to the sheer number of you that have sent me messages over the past few years on this and the co-owned account, and my very busy schedule at present, I do not have time to go through everything.

Your task is simple. If you have any messages that have never received a response from me, comment your username and I will look into it. Please bear in mind that some messages were intentionally overlooked or ignored due to many reasons; which I will not go into here. However, if your message contains subject matter that will try my patience the least, then there is a good chance I’ll respond.

For the next two and a half weeks I am giving you all a chance to be a detective.

This means that I will be accepting photographic evidence along with your deductions of whatever subjects you choose. Whomever performs well enough and tries my patience the least, will be the winner and get a compliment from me as well as a special mention on my blog. . (It goes without saying that if you submit a photo of something lude or boring I will ignore it, and you will quite possibly be banned from this blog if you commit the former.)

Impress me. SH

I apologize for keeping you all waiting this long. My brother had a “top-secret” project for me to work on and it kept my attentions for some time.

All of this miserable bed rest has given me an idea. Maybe I should start a new column on here. It would be filled with all the latest influxes of my mind, making anyone reading it that much smarter. Well, almost anyone.