Relate this problem to a past Enigma

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From: Review the Prior Literature

You reached an incandescent understanding once...

Game Instructions: This will consume a Searing Enigma for a great deal of Research; on a success, it will clear your hand. This is more effective on projects that have a Correspondence focus.

Unlocked with 1 x Searing Enigma, Total Lab Research Required 500, Experimental Object 1001-1200

Locked with Laboratory Research ( Total Lab Research Required - 499)

Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 220

• 151 - very chancy (41%)
• 187 - chancy (51%)
• 224 - modest (61%)
• 261 - very modest (71%)
• 297 - low-risk (81%)
• 334 - straightforward (91%)
• 367 - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of Research Preparations reduces the base difficulty by 1 point.

Success

Understand the enigmatic

When you first came to this realisation, it seemed entirely unrelated [...] But the connections are there, under the surface. When you finally finish knitting your current problem to your past epiphany, it advances your research substantially.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've lost 1 x Searing Enigma
•  You've gained 500 (525 with Correspondence Focus) x Laboratory Research
•  You've gained 1 x Unavoidable Epiphany
• This branch clears your hand. (hidden)

Failure

Costly progress

Sometimes, when you think about your conclusions, [...] sloshes in your head like soup in an overfull tureen, and it feels like you're about to stop understanding again. But you manage to hold it all in your mind just long enough to put pen to paper.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've lost 1 x Searing Enigma
•  You've gained 500 (525 with Correspondence Focus) x Laboratory Research