Looking for a short word that means "detective skills&q

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I makes games, and each game is based on a book. At the end of each game the user gets a score. If the story was an adventure, they are scored on "bravery." If the story was a romance they are scored on "romance." So after a few games the user will have scores like this:

Bravery 77%
Romance 52%
Curiosity 85%
Faith 33%
Wisdom 91%
Detective skills 46%

EDIT: here's a screen shot
[img][800:834]http://enterthestory.com/other/screenshot.jpg[/img]

For technical reasons the word has to be quite short. "Detective skills" is too long. Can anyone suggest a word that means the same but has fewer letters? Imagine that you played a game based on Sherlock Holmes and solved the mystery easily. How would you describe your skill?

Sleuthing

Sleuth skills

That's good. thanks!


BTW, it must be an aspie thing, but whenever I post something online I panic when someone replies. I 'm scared to read it, and hope it's a mistake and not a real reply. Which is stupid, because this is a really simple question and I am genuinely grateful for an answer. But when I check my email I'm like "please don't be an answer! Please don't!"

No wonder they call it a disability.

Inspired by "sleuthing," I tried "solving." I'm still undecided. I added a screenshot to the first post. You can see why the number of letters matters. "Detective Skills" simply will not fit. "Sleuthing" is good, and just about fits. "Solving" fits easily, but it makes the game sound like an ordinary puzzle game, and really it's a story that involves choices. Maybe sleuthing would be better. But maybe detective type words are not appropriate? The book is an adventure, where you have to find out who is guilty and then trap them. Maybe there's an even better word for that skill?

Cognitive? I say that because it seems the example you gave didn't require detecting so much as the best response to the situation.

Deduction.

Cognitive is good, and just about fits. But is it a word that the average person in the street would find attractive? I don't want these games to seem like hard work.

Deduction is exactly what I asked for, but I'm wondering if I was looking for the wrong thing. There are a lot of games that use pure reasoning, and mine are not like that - people might find it misleading. While the story is a mystery, the solution is based on emotion as much as pure reasoning. Maybe I'm asking for the impossible?

I think deduction is a good one.

Thanks. I'm leaning towards "discovery"

Investigation or investigative

Although sleuthing was the first one that game to my mind.

Curiosity also might work, if combined with persistance.

Uncovering.

McGuyvering?

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Deduction and sleuthing are both good words. They are very familiar and most people assosciate them with mysterys and puzzles where as cognitive puzzles sound like psychological measures done for tests rather than entertainment. Solving has its merits as alot of the 'detective' games are find the object style and fairly dull.

Let us know when the games finished. I love puzzle games and really love Dorian Gray

(Im also available for game testing )

Deduction

or Perception

I'm not sure about a word but I am intrigued by the game

Ah, if it includes an emotional component you might use "intuition".