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From: Direct Your Own Research


A hint here, a suggestion there...

Game Instructions: This will exchange Incisive Observations for up to 15 points of Research. This is less efficient than working with proper lab assistants and equipment, but may be helpful when you are alone.

Unlocked with Experimental Object 1, 5 x Incisive Observation


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 205

  • 141 - very chancy (41%)
  • 175 - chancy (51%)
  • 209 - modest (61%)
  • 243 - very modest (71%)
  • 277 - low-risk (81%)
  • 311 - straightforward (91%)
  • 342 - straightforward (100%)

Success

You're learning

Come at the problem from a new angle. Pull together insights from other thinkers, past colleagues. Imagine how someone from quite a different discipline might look at this...


Failure

A brain like molasses

You've been staring at these notes for too long. They've stopped making sense. Even the most obvious chains of deduction elude you. But you press through, and by morning you have advanced your understanding.