Mimic Logic Tips and Tricks (Mimic Avoidance)

Mimic Logic Tips and Tricks – The goal of this guide is to help you avoid opening Mimics by listing all the tips and tricks I can think of.

Mimic Logic Tips and Tricks (Mimic Avoidance)

Before we start…

Mimic Logic is a game about making you think, develop and use strategies to solve logic puzzles.

If you follow this guide, you will skip the development part and just use the strategies.

So if you want to think of your own strategies, I suggest you play the game without using this guide.

Also, this guide does not guarantee that you will be able to open every non-mimic chest.

There are times when there is not enough information to determine which breast is a mimic and which is not.

However, the tricks you’ll see ensure that all chests you open are safe.

This guide is currently under development, so I may add more things in the future.

Glossary and notes

Validation: a sentence that says that a chest or group of chests are not mimics.

Accusation: a sentence that says a group of chests are mimics.

Direct accusative: a sentence that says that a particular chest is a facial expression.

Remaining mimics: refers to mimics that are still not identified.

Mathematics:

The letter “n” is used to denote a variable number. This way I can specify rules that apply to different cases.

For example: If the rule says “there are n imitations…”, you need to substitute n as the number of imitations in your puzzle.

Mimic Logic Tips and Tricks

Contradictions:

Condition: Two chests say opposite sentences.

Conclusion: One must be a mimic and the other not.

Accusations:

Condition: A chest will accuses another chest of being the mimic.

Conclusion: One must be a mimic and the other not.

Note: If the charge is targeting a group, you may suspect that there is at least one mimic (group + charge chest) among the participating chests.

Self-accusation:

Condition: The chest accuses the group and belongs to the same group.

Conclusion: That chest is not a fake.

Instant recognition:

Condition: Only one duplicate remains and the chest checks another chest (or a group of chests with no known duplicates).

Conclusion: Both the validating chest and verified chests are safe.

Note: This trick is really useful to speed up the floor run with only one mime.

Coincidences:

Status: n chests say the same thing and there are fewer than n unidentified duplicates.

Conclusion: n chests tell the truth.

Discarding:

Condition: n mimics must be identified and the chest is known to be mimics.

Conclusion: The rest of the puzzle can be played as if there were n – 1 imitations.

Note: If the conflict involves more than two chests, you must consider both possible cases and keep track of how many chests lie on each of them.

This way you can subtract the number of liars to n. At this point it might be better to use “Proof by Contradiction“.

Cyclical Accusation:

Condition: There is a direct charge cycle between n chests.

Conclusion: The number of imitations in a cycle is floor (n / 2) or ceiling (n / 2).

Note: This condition is rare and not that useful.

50/50:

Sometimes there is not enough information to tell which chest is telling the truth and which is lying.

In this case, it is better to skip both chests.

The “blue crystal” can be used to find out which one isn’t a fake, but it’s not worth it in most cases.

Strategy

Count verification

You have to count how many validations each chest gets (self-validations don’t count). I encourage you to watch them by right clicking.

“A chest is safe if its verification count is greater than or equal to the number of remaining copies.”

Look for suspicious chests

This strategy uses multiple tricks. You can get more details about each trick in the “Basic Tricks” section.

First, look for any discrepancy and mark them with numbers.

Then look for the charges and mark the chests involved.

Now use the “Discard” trick.

If you managed to guarantee that all the mimics are among the suspicious chest, the unsuspecting ones are safe. On the other hand, if there are still mimics outside of the suspect groups, you can play the rest of the puzzle as if there were fewer mimics to find (ignore sentences related to suspicious chests)

Expect direct accusations
You have to count how many direct charges each chest gets (self-charge means the chest is not a copy). You can use right click to watch them.

“A chest is an imitation if the number of its direct charges is greater than the number of remaining imitations.”

Note: This strategy uses a trick of chance, so all chests that accused the mimic are safe.

Proof by contradiction
This strategy consists of assuming that the chest is either telling the truth or lying and continuing the puzzle with that hypothesis.

If it leads you to a contradiction, like you get more duplicates than there should be, or two “supposedly safe” chests that contradict each other, then you know that the assumption you made at the beginning was wrong.

But what happens when everything goes as expected? Then you’ve wasted your time, there’s no guarantee that your assumption was correct. Just undo everything you did after that assumption. This is why it should be used as a last resort.

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Written By: Mentally Challenged