I feel like a homer because I started with the second clue, then the first, and, finally, the (scientifically-proven-unreliable) witness testimony.
Starting with Clue #2, get a list of everyone with the set of membership cards. Do this by combining all the lists, sort them together, use uniq to group them ' N FNAME LASTNAME', keep only those with N=4, cut off the cruft, pull each individual's info from the people file, and keep only the males.
They are Brian Boyer, Jeremy Bowers, Matt Waite, and Mike Bostock. Following this flaw, I was able to get the answer with four interviews and without consulting clues #1 nor #3.
If I were to pursue this train of thought (without the flaw), I would review clue #1 to find suspects over 6' tall (from mystery/vehicles). The list of 13 becomes just six. The four suspects mentioned above and two others; 'Augustin Lozano' and 'Nikolaus Milatz'.
Finally, I review Clue #3. I try the following commands because baristas are TERRIBLE at getting people's name correct.
grep Annabel mystery/people | sed -ne '/\bF\b'
grep Anabel mystery/people | sed -ne '/\bF\b'
'Annabel' pulls up only two names, 'Anabel' pulls up four. 'Annabel Church' ends up being the eyewitness. The crucial piece of info is the partial license plate number.
sed -ne '/L337..9/,+6p' mystery/vehicles
I'm not command-fu enough to write a better sed command so I do a manual inspection. There are five cars that match the description of a 'Blue Honda'; six if you include 'Teal'. Mr. Bowers, one of my original four suspects, owns a 'Blue Honda', and Mr. Bostock owns the 'Teal'.
Anyway. This is just to say that there's more than the prescribed way to solve the game. You could, potentially, solve it with just three interviews 'Annabel', 'Bowers', and 'Bostock'. Or, like me, you could do things ass-backwards.
I feel like a homer because I started with the second clue, then the first, and, finally, the (scientifically-proven-unreliable) witness testimony.
Starting with Clue #2, get a list of everyone with the set of membership cards. Do this by combining all the lists, sort them together, use uniq to group them ' N FNAME LASTNAME', keep only those with N=4, cut off the cruft, pull each individual's info from the people file, and keep only the males.
With this list of 13 names and addresses (from 5029), I tried to find each one in the street files. HOWEVER, only four of them have existent streets. They are Brian Boyer, Jeremy Bowers, Matt Waite, and Mike Bostock. Following this flaw, I was able to get the answer with four interviews and without consulting clues #1 nor #3.If I were to pursue this train of thought (without the flaw), I would review clue #1 to find suspects over 6' tall (from mystery/vehicles). The list of 13 becomes just six. The four suspects mentioned above and two others; 'Augustin Lozano' and 'Nikolaus Milatz'.
Finally, I review Clue #3. I try the following commands because baristas are TERRIBLE at getting people's name correct.
'Annabel' pulls up only two names, 'Anabel' pulls up four. 'Annabel Church' ends up being the eyewitness. The crucial piece of info is the partial license plate number. I'm not command-fu enough to write a better sed command so I do a manual inspection. There are five cars that match the description of a 'Blue Honda'; six if you include 'Teal'. Mr. Bowers, one of my original four suspects, owns a 'Blue Honda', and Mr. Bostock owns the 'Teal'.Anyway. This is just to say that there's more than the prescribed way to solve the game. You could, potentially, solve it with just three interviews 'Annabel', 'Bowers', and 'Bostock'. Or, like me, you could do things ass-backwards.