Let's Play Murder By Numbers - PC Gameplay Part 1 - Celeb Sleuthing & Picross Puzzling!

Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues.
Use those clues to interrogate witnesses.
Work your way to the truth...
...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
Los Angeles, 1996. Honor Mizrahi was just an actress on a hit TV detective show. But when her boss ends up dead just minutes after he fires her, she finds herself starring in her own murder mystery. Teaming up with SCOUT, a reconnaissance robot thrown away after a mysterious incident, she sets out to clear her name - and a new detective duo is born!
Investigate a range of murders across TV studios, glitzy award shows, drag clubs, and more - all set to an energetic soundtrack from famed composer Masakazu Sugimori (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Ghost Trick and Viewtiful Joe).
Uncover a dark conspiracy by interrogating a wild range of weird and wonderful characters, designed by the incomparable Hato Moa, creator of Hatoful Boyfriend.
90s fashions! Upbeat jams! Sass dialled up to 100! Questionable jokes! Drag queens! All that and more awaits... in Murder by Numbers!
Get Murder By Numbers on Good Old Games: www.gog.com/game/murder_by_nu...
Or Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/11...
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Wanderbots Chibi art by my fiancee and co-commentator, Chelle! Check out her Art Channel:
/ keeperofages
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Outro Music: Braincooler - Mega Man X Chill Penguin Stage Remix By Rozovian - ocremix.org/remix/OCR01916
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[@supleted]

-Phoenix Wright -"Not Quite Sudoku" Sudoku -Pigeon dating sim people I had a stroke.

[@KatouMegumiosu]

Couldn't be more true.

[@ecyor0]

'Scuse you, nonograms are an *entirely* separate puzzle :P

[@shadowsong2173]

Wandering Bishop true

[@animemlb972]

As anime as this maybe, I’m liking the new animated bot characters on the side of the thumbnail, Wander’s character is very megaman

[@zeekia0733]

I feel like Chelle should be an actual voice actor, she's really good

[@wanderbots]

She's amazing.

[@dipperz]

man that intro cutscene is kinda adorable

[@wanderbots]

It's stuck in my head. I regret nothing.

[@wiccans4618]

"good i don't have to voice act him again" best creation to a character death ever

[@thepineapplemiscreant2625]

I cannot remember if it was used before or not, but that side art on the thumbnail is surprisingly more chibi than I expected it to normally be. Nevertheless, it is adorable and a treat to see.

[@wanderbots]

The sidebar art is normally mine, but this time it's Chelle's. She's a lot better at chibis than I am.

[@thepineapplemiscreant2625]

Wanderbots Ah, that explains the style looking more different here. Good choice; it fits in along with what game you two are playing very nicely.

[@IcazoTheWolf]

I love this, but a little hint; go inwards. Start with the outermost numbers - fill in the edges, work your way towards the middle. And DO NOT GUESS.

[@OwlsPoniesDragonsandWolves]

I love the look of Wander and Chellebot avatars! They kind of fit the personality of you and Chelle (also hi Chelle! It's cool to see another joint video!) The Wanderbot looks severely pissed off and has the destroy everything look, which kind of fits what we often see with you kind of becoming a god of overkill. And Chellebot looks friendly (and kind of like a Warframe) which fits her approach to decision-making in games. She talks to everyone to here their side of the story. They are also adorable.

[@thelaughtophyena6916]

Love the new title card art! Looks great guys!

[@ElhPudding]

I'm glad you and Chelle are done this game together! I just liked when I saw on that Nindies direct and I'm glad is already out. Plus I do like a lot when you both do a series together!

[@Queenofdragons6]

20:39 I can’t help but find you saying that humorous, given that something decidedly less-than-cute is about to come up… 30:40 I literally LOLed. Yes, I hope you enjoyed playing through this game!

[@Krishnath.Dragon]

That is the most 80's visual style I've seen since the 80's.

[@purplemist7]

The game is set in the 90s.

[@zagspianist5752]

Who else has done 50x50 nonograms and is dying!! Keep it up wander!

[@yeckiLP]

I saw the thumbnail and was like: hang on, this is different, then the opening played after I clicked it and I got another wave of 'jup this is different' so really looking forward to what this series will bring, (gonna watch the videonow :p)

[@poisonedoak6563]

I know you’ve shown us the new character art before but it’s real good

[@RpgPenguins]

22:02 Wander can only think of not voicing him XD

[@Daniel-ii5mh]

Damnn, i love the thumbnail wander !!!

[@johnbuscher]

Oooh, new title card. Neat! This is like the Toonami eras with different Toms.

[@darkslayer366]

Chel "It's Friday night!" Wander "No."

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

@14:00 Lol replaced by a poodle. For somereason that made me think of the Unleashed novel series by Erik Schubach. In particular the book titled "The Case of the Poodle Doodle"

[@featherozone]

Does nobody realize how much tension there is between these two??

[@PsychOsmosis]

Usenet isn't "forums and chatrooms", it's a newsgroup system. It's still working nowadays, as long as you have a newsgroup provider (most ISPs that I know of offer free basic newsgroup access to their customers).

[@domijames7538]

Yes love picross.... Plus chelle should do voice acting. Several times I thought she was the actual tutorial lady. No joke your that good.

[@danielnoguera8183]

Love the new art 😃

[@thomasdierkes707]

Now murder mystery and picross... That's one combination, I've never heard of. Even though the intro didn't really speak to me and I didn't know, what to make of this combination, I'm enjoying this series so far. I've actually been doing picross for about a year now every now and then (learned everything for myself) and there's a relatively useful trick for finding out, wether there are blocks of cells overlapping. (I'll describe it at the end of my comment, in case you don't wanna know about it.) It works especially well in empty columns or rows since every filled or crossed out cell might make for more overlapping (and is particularly useful for longer rows or colums)... If you don't know, what I mean, you'll see later on... I just wanna say one other thing before the trick: *Don't guess.* It's the worst thing, you could do. You base every new cell on the ones, you already filled out and when you fill in cells by random, you'll have a hard time correcting all of the follow-up mistakes. I've never really guessed in picross, but I made enough mistakes to actually know, how much can go wrong by one misplaced cell. So don't try to potentially make it even worse for yourselves. I'm really sorry, if I sound lecturing or something like that. So... the trick: It'll take some time to explain, but once you get it, it's fairly simple. If you have... for example the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in a... let's say 20 cells wide column, you can first add all the other numbers + 1 to your first number (the + 1 stands for the crossed out cell inbetween, since it's 1, X, 2, X, 3, X,...) Since there's no X before the one you'd be adding 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 (which makes 19). You'd then proceed to add the number, you wanna check for overlapping cells. (It's good to take the smallest one, that seems reasonable to you, since, if it overlaps, every number greater than that one must also overlap...) (3 overlaps one more than 2, 4 one more than three and so on for example. It always works thar way.) The important thing is to add the actual number and not the number + 1. If you for example add 2 to the sum of 19 you'll get 21. That's one above 20. So there's one cell overlapping. It's always the outermost cell (or the last in the direction you read the row or the column) since the overlapping starts from the outer cells and work its way to the inside. I hope, this was kind of comprehensable and I'm really sorry for blabbering on and on. I hope, I could help in case you read this comment. Thank you... that's all.

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

@36:45 "I should probably mention that this game is set in 1996, so 200MB is massive" Not really, I bought a 486DX2-80 with 8 MB mem and an 850MB harddrive for storage so 200MB storage wasn't that much in 1996. 420MB was the standard size of harddrive new computers were shipped with at the time. 200MB would be what you would find in a computer that was a couple of years old. So it seems like Scout was assembled from old parts.... Also UUSENET is what led to newsgroups(Though these terms are often used they are not. Usenet is the network. newsgroup were the message board/forums repositories). Which was and is a way for people to share articles with one another. It's basically a huge forum that is duplicated each night to all server nodes and that people download to browse the articles in it. (It's still very much alive, though it's more used to share files and data these days, often of pirated movies, software, TV series etc though instead of legal content. It's the alt.binaries. thing you may have hear people talk about.) Anyway in 1996 the WWW (world wide web) was already around and what a lot of new users with modem dial-up connections used. This was the Netscape Navigator (v4) era. (Usenet had been around at that point since 1979) Forums, IRC and e-mail are separate from USENET. USENET was purely a way for universities and businesses to exchanges files and news posts and used it's own communication protocol. It's more comparable to the old FIDO message exchange system that was used over vast number of telephone dial-in bulletin board systems over the world prior to the rise of the internet.

[@wanderbots]

200 MB was pretty massive from my perspective at the time. Then again I was a poor kid for most of the 90's. I remember we had to drive all the way out to the nearest city just to get a HDD large enough to fit Megaman X and Red Alert at the same time so we wouldn't have to keep uninstalling one to fit the other.

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

@@wanderbots Yes in the early nineties. But in that period harddisk space still doubled every 18 months or so. I bought my first PC from the money I made from my college internship, a 486DX2, in the first half of 1996. It was a budget system (AMD processor instead of intel etc.) At that time the minimum spec for that computer was a DX2-66MHz with 4MB ram and 420MB HD. I bought it upgraded for about 800 dutch guilders at the time the USD was about 2 guilders a piece so it was about $400-500 bucks. For that price it had a 486DX2-80Mhz, a larger then normal (850MB) HD and 4 MB extra memory on top of that default 4MB. Because it was my first intel compatible computer (I had used an amiga 500 and 1200 before and started out with a C64 in the mid 80s) I remember the date and the specs of that time very clearly ^_^'

[@KittyKix26]

That intro was cute as shit 🤣

[@MirageGSM]

This is a fun one. I like it!

[@EJ-kx9zx]

She's pretty calm and understanding.

[@spritemon98]

Wow I was not expecting the chili side art in the thumbnail

[@Ryanrulesok]

Like the new thumbnail art

[@alexandersmerage4931]

............. I love this

[@Ederisien]

Oh! Picross is just Japanese puzzles (at least that's what they're called in the Netherlands), I love those! It's just counting and deduction. There's a lot of ways to solve these, but be sure to alternate looking at across and down. I always forget to do that >.< So focused on the clues on the left side that I forget there's clues on top.

[@shantterzi9326]

Btw. Are you going to continue lets play Phoenix Wright trilogy someday?

[@zetashadowdragon]

Seems interesting. Not sure if I am sold on the picross gameplay.

[@wanderbots]

I'm super sold on it. It's obviously there to pad out the gameplay, but since I've never played Picross it's a lot of fun.

[@MarkersNMadness]

I’ve only just met SCOUT but he is too dang cute I can’t handle it

[@9Godslayer]

I have a tendency to screw these kind of puzzles up so knowing that overlap technique is useful.

[@jerryplayz101]

38:12 - The internet as we know it (in terms of protocols and end to end connection type only exist after TCP/IP protocols became available in the early 2000s. Common mistake.

[@leahwhite8212]

I bet Blake is getting black mailed

[@Zegaexiron]

New Thumbnail art. Bots got Upgrade

[@wanderbots]

Yup! Chelle did a great job with it!

[@Earthhorn]

​@@wanderbots Imagine those as 3d printed figurines :O (Do not imagine the excrutiating amount of work to create those while doing her art justice)

[@normanho5631]

@@Earthhorn WANDERBOT YOUTOOZ

[@GodlyDiamonds]

Wow i just realised that the team that made this game helped develop Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout

[@lottery248]

nonogram... lol

[@twilightstar4742]

Sad face, it's not available for Mac. :C

[@normanho5631]

New thumbnail?

[@gab_v250]

wait, this isn't The Police

[@karthiksiva9819]

its a pictogram puzzle game eh?

[@beastlyfour5481]

I’m really confused

[@michelledoland9516]

Its nonograms!

[@Heatskore]

Gotta admit skipping the tutorial then watching them bumble through the puzzles and not understanding is a bit silly. I think I’m going to have to pass on this series, as much as I’d like to watch it be played.

[@wanderbots]

Way to just knee jerk into assuming we'd bumble through the whole game. I skipped the tutorial because the basics were clear. Applying those basics requires practice, and we weren't going to get that with extreme hand holding.

[@Heatskore]

Wanderbots Sorry it was never meant as a statement that you’d bumble your way through the whole game. It wasn’t meant as a short on your intelligence, as I know you’ll get to understand how Picross puzzles work. It was just tough from my perspective watching the first few puzzles not be understood, when the things you were not understanding was explained in the tutorial. It made for a tough watch at first, but I should recognize not everyone is well versed in Picross. My apologies.

[@yesssint7243]

Its called a nonogram

[@wanderbots]

They're the same thing.