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MOST RECENT UPDATE

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.

JW

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UPDATE

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.

P.S. John didn’t write this.

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A lot has happened. Too much to put into words. All you need to know is that England is safe once again, but it came with a heavy price.

I will be resuming the activity of this blog soon.

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Poll

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.

Leave a comment with the number associated with your choice. You may choose more than one option, if you wish. The option(s) with the most votes by the end of the month will be the chosen content for the blog.

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An anonymous client sent me this image. Apparently they received an envelope this morning containing the contents of burnt gingerbread men, and think it has something to do with Moriarty. To all who are reading this, James Moriarty is dead. Trust me, I would know if he were alive. What we have here is likely nothing more than a prank or a statement of some sort. I’ve instructed them to remain cautious and to interact with only close family and friends for the time being as a precaution, but they are probably in no real danger. Certainly not from the late James Moriarty. SH

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Looks like nothing came of my cry for help on this platform either. Shame.

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Three hours and not one of you has come forward with anything that will ease my ever increasing boredom. Am I so daunting that no one can speak to me directly?

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This flight back to the UK is proving tedious and boring. SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE ME SOMETHING TO DO!

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I have been abroad doing case work for the past few weeks. I will be releasing new content here when I arrive back in the UK.

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My brother is insufferable.

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Officially Back!

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.

Note: This is only intended for written messages you sent to my inbox. I have and will continue to ignore those that send me boring or elicit pms.

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This is a test message. An experiment, if you will, to see how many of you are still active. And in case you still don’t comprehend the point, leave a comment, favorite, or reblog this message when you see it and I will add you to the count.

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I am extending the time of the recent challenge indefinitely until I see some solid deductions.

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You are the Detective

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

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Back on Terra Firma!

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.

However, I am back and I plan on continuing the great gift to society that this blog epitomizes.

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Thoughts?

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.

I’ll call it #Sherlockthoughts or #DailySherlock. What do you think?

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Attention

I’m dealing with a severe injury at the moment, so all case work is put on hold until further notice.

The contest here will remain ongoing, but I will not be posting my own deductions for a while.

SH