In this sequel to the popular logic game Sherlock, Holmes has sent Dr Watson on a mission to Venice, Italy, armed with a specially encoded map. The nefarious Professor Moriarty is hot on his trail, and you must help Watson decode the map so he can safely get to his destination! In the licensed version, there are over 100 maps and each map has over 65,000 puzzles. Each puzzle has from 1 to 5 "things" (people, pets, etc) in each of from 3 to 10 buildings, and there are from 3 to 10 bridges over 3 to 8 canals. You must use the graphical clues to deduce where things are located. Engrossing fun for the logic puzzle fanatic hiding within you!

NOTE: A lot of folks, at first, have trouble with the "west-of" and "north-of" relationships in Watson's Map, particularly when comparing bridges to buildings. Here's a little further clarification that might help (or might confuse... your mileage may vary :-)

1) The WEST-OF and NORTH-OF clues, when talking about non-bridge images (ie, things in buildings), they're talking about the BUILDING that CONTAINS the image, not the image itself.

2) The WEST-OF and NORTH-OF rules do NOT state that one object is COMPLETELY west-of or north-of the other, just MORE west-of or north-of.
3) Number 2) is pretty easy to see when comparing buildings to buildings, or bridges to bridges (since they're the same sizes, unless one building is horizontal and the other vertical). The REAL trouble comes when comparing a bridge to a building. The rule is: object A is west-of object B if (and ONLY if) the LEFT edge of A is FARTHER left than the LEFT edge of B, *AND* the RIGHT edge of A if FARTHER left than the RIGHT edge of B.

In other words, if a bridge "overlaps" a building COMPLETELY (both edges of the bridge are "inside" the edges of the building), they are considered "equal", neither is west-of the other. If they overlap such that ZERO or only ONE edge of the bridge is "inside" the edges of the building, then either the building or the bridge is west-of (or north-of) the other.

ADDITIONAL IMAGE SETS:

bdrWM48 - this set is from Barbara De Roes (Nov 30, 2004)
BlackAndWhite - this is a B&W set from David Donarumo (Nov 30, 2004)
Fred&Gene - Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly movies from Barbara De Roes (Nov 30, 2004)
Kingdom - a medieval set from Brandon Freels (Nov 30, 2004)
klWM - this set is from Katherine Lawson (Nov 30, 2004)
krisWMgreenGrass - this set is from Kris Pixton (Nov 30, 2004)
krisWMredBrick - this set is from Kris Pixton (Nov 30, 2004)
MDWRPG - this set is from M. David Wilson (Nov 30, 2004)
Moriarty - this set is mostly the images from Dinner With Moriarty (Nov 30, 2004)
Olympic - this Olympics-themed set is from Valery Krapil (Nov 30, 2004)
StarWars - this Star Wars themed set is from David Donarumo (Nov 30, 2004)
WoW-wm - this World of Warcraft themed set is from David Donarumo (May 19, 2005)

GAME REQUIREMENTS:

Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/etc

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