Board Quote by Sterling Beaumon

There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or…

— Christopher Bollen

In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else.

— Joan Lowery Nixon

I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing…

— Rick Riordan

“I feel like the only reason we’re able to find some of these unique ideas, characters, and story twists is through discovery. And, by…

— Ed Catmull

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

— Will Wright

You know the thing that interests me about 'Unsolved Mysteries?' It's because there are people out there, people who know something, who may have…

— Raymond Burr

We try to find the information, the clues, to unlock the play or the story or our characters, especially when they're based on real…

— Phillipa Soo

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are…

— Simone Weil

You play the honesty of the characters and show a side of them that people can relate to and want to get to know.

— Brian Tyree Henry

People don't actually, a lot of times, know the game behind the game. If people think that they do, it's a little bit of…

— Mandy Stadtmiller

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

— Kathy Reichs

It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.

— Steve McConnell