Elementary my dear.

So Greg House, Robert downey Holmes, john sherlock miller, and sherlock cumberbatch all wake up in a room with a one way mirror that shows all their respective Watsons tied up. In their room there is also a man dead and a note that says that one of them commited the murder a few hours ago but can't remember it. Who ever solves the mystery first gets to leave with their Watson. Their clues are that the victim was heavily sedated before he died, there is a small incision in the most effective place to kill someone, and a quarter thick streak in the pool of blood beneath him. Which genius figures it out first.

Same question but the watsons take a crack at it.

Downey Holmes, largely because you didn't include Adam West Batman.

How did he figure it out And who did he guess?

Do I look like Downey Holmes to you? uhuh

My bet is he figured it out because his own Watson did it and he is most familiar with him.

Alternatively no one did it and the corpse is ALIIIIIVE.

Nope nope and now jude watson is dead.

D:

The winner is the Sherlock whose Watson is most capable of murder in a situation the Sherlock would deduce.

Reason is that all of the Watson's are skilled in medicine and surgery so the precision and skill of execution isn't enough.

Jane and Wilson are not from the military unlike the other two and both are largely pacifist, more Wilson than Jane, so it'd be less likely to be them
..however as it was a more humane execution it points back at these two..

Looped myself..

But like I said, its only the matching pair who would know for sure with this evidence, as unless they know about the other Watson's they'd be pressed to differentiate. Then again its unlikely that they would every accuse their Watson.

I haven't seen much of the American Sherlock but I think Cumberbatch is better at crime solvin than Downey, who's more of an action hero.

The one with the blood on his hands is the killer. All of the Sherlock's are likely to notice that.

Mind you the setup here isn't really the best. I have no idea what all parties involved look like, what is given is basic knowledge for all Watson's, and since none of them can remember anything it's obvious they've been manipulated. A person doesn't just forget something like that and none of the Watson's seem like murders(that we know of).

Alternatively the Watson who killed him would be in handcuffs since the person in charge of this game knows who the killer is already.

Alternatively alternatively this is Jigsaw being a dick since you could say a lot of these Holmes have wasted their lives in some way.

Originally posted by AuraAngel
Alternatively alternatively this is Jigsaw being a dick since you could say a lot of these Holmes have wasted their lives in some way.

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I may not have been clear. One of the people in the room killed the mwn, watsons AND sherlocks. 8 suspects.

Oh, well... Take all that I said about the Watsons then throw in 4 geniuses who would all be able to expertly both cover their tracks and do something to throw off any pursuer. All 8 would know this about their pairs.

Even if one Sherlock is superior than the others, there is both too little detail and too little background to suss out 4 doctors who 'seemingly wouldn't' and 3 other criminology/forensic professionals who mentally play chess with you before even giving you their names.

All of them have the skills, intellect and potential given the motive. No one will have a drop of blood on them, have the weapon(s) near them or give out any hints that they were a part of it.

As said the only Sherlock/Watson who would have the advantage is the pair of the one that did it as they'd intricately know how the other works. Its the largest advantage here. Problem with this is that the wouldn't turn in the other. Take House and Wilson. They have risked their careers and health for each other before, so having an idea that the other killed the guy, they would for whatever reason give them the benefit of the doubt and protect them (until knowing that reason later). Benlock did the same when Watson shot the killer dead, giving a rough description of what the shooter would be until realizing he was describing Watson, then saying he made the claim from the shock he was in.

Nobody can win unless a Sherlock both works out their Watson did it (only with 100% certainty as a slither of doubt would make them look into other options) and decides to turn them in. If that happens, any Sherlock to the murdering partner will win. That's if they deduce this. Seeing as we have a pair of 4 rough clones, the Sherlock's wouldn't get far.

Could see the Watson's doing as well, but only with more information to go with. With this they don't stand a chance.

Originally posted by Nephthys
I haven't seen much of the American Sherlock but I think Cumberbatch is better at crime solvin than Downey, who's more of an action hero.

John and Ben are near equals, just a different flavour.

If you guess right, everyone gets a free pardon. The crime happened exactly four hours before the woke up and they have info that some evilclone of proff. X. did it so no one is in trouble.

If so then the 'knowing the killer' advantage is dropped, leaving this as visuals only. Only notable thing being that streak (not from the cane, is it?), the sedation and death could be done by any of them.

Detective wise Greg is last. Greatest medical knowledge with deduction skills a notch below theirs, the fault being that he isn't a proper detective and won't be looking for the same things the other three are.

But house has some key knowledge the others don't.

That he uses a cane?

Where did the murderer get the sedative.

Can they identify the sedative?

I'm a fairy certain most of these guys (excluding the Watsons, monstly) are addicted to one drug or another. I dunno if that's important. They all have some medical knowledge so the method of murder isn't super helpful.

I only seen a little bit of ben holmes, but downey holmes and sherlock miller don't carry powerful pain killers at any given moment.

They'd have to assume the murderer never left the room in those 4 hours to discard of a drug.