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* ConvictionByContradiction: The entire premise of the comic; Lance always figures out the real culprit from a single slip of the tongue.
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* CheatedAngle: The cowlick on the front of Lance's head is always visible, no matter what angle he's viewed at, even if it contradicts how it appears in other panels of the exact same comic. [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/37.html For example.]]
* ConvictionByContradiction: The entire premise of the comic; Lance always figures out the real culprit from a single slip of the tongue. Sometimes it becomes ConvictionByCounterfactualClue.
* ConvictionByContradiction: The entire premise of the comic; Lance always figures out the real culprit from a single slip of the tongue. Sometimes it becomes ConvictionByCounterfactualClue.
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* IronicNickname: The one recurring character is an overweight cop called "Tiny".
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* IronicNickname: The one A recurring character is an overweight cop called "Tiny".
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Although it's pretty much forgotten today, various installments of the strip can be found on [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/index.html James Lilek's website]], and occasionally appear on his [[https://www.lileks.com/bleats/index.html blog]].
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Although it's pretty much forgotten today, various installments of the strip can be found on [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/index.html James Lilek's website]], and occasionally appear on his [[https://www.lileks.com/bleats/index.html blog]].blog]] every Friday.
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* IronicNickname: The one recurring character is an overweight cop called "Tiny".
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Although it's pretty much forgotten today, various installments of the strip can be found on [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/index.html James Lilek's website]].
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Although it's pretty much forgotten today, various installments of the strip can be found on [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/index.html James Lilek's website]].website]], and occasionally appear on his [[https://www.lileks.com/bleats/index.html blog]].
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: Figuring out some puzzles requires the reader to have knowledge of obscure trivia, such as knowing [[spoiler:when did postal cards first appear]] in the case of [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/11.html this strip]]. (It doesn't help that vital visual details are sometimes hard to make out in the online scans.) Some of them were probably easier back in the 40's. For example, [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/7.html this puzzle]] refers to something that was fairly recent news in 1948 but hardly remembered today.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: Figuring ReverseWhodunnit: The basic premise. In essentially all the strips Lance himself points out some puzzles requires the reader culprit, the reader's task is to have knowledge of obscure trivia, such as knowing [[spoiler:when figure out how did postal cards first appear]] in the case of [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/11.html this strip]]. (It doesn't help that vital visual details are sometimes hard to make out in the online scans.) Some of them were probably easier back in the 40's. For example, [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/7.html this puzzle]] refers to something that was fairly recent news in 1948 but hardly remembered today.Lance determine their guilt.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: Figuring out some puzzles requires the reader to have knowledge of obscure trivia, such as knowing [[spoiler:when did postal cards first appear]] in the case of [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/11.html this strip]]. (It doesn't help that vital visual details are sometimes hard to make out in the online scans.) Some of them were probably easier back in the 40's. For example, [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/7.html this puzzle]] refers to something that was fairly recent news in 1948 but hardly remembered today.
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''Lance Lawson'' was a mystery-themed newspaper comic drawn by Norman Hamilton and written by Harry Cherney, which ran in the ''Minneapolis Star'' and ''Tribune'' in the late 1940's. In each installment, the hard-boiled detective Lance Lawson was faced with a new mystery, which he inevitably managed to solve within four panels by noticing [[ConvictionByContradiction the one detail that didn't fit in the suspect's story]] (with the reader challenged to figure out the answer himself before looking it up).
Although it's pretty much forgotten today, various installments of the strip can be found on [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/index.html James Lilek's website]].
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!!This comic shows examples of:
* ConvictionByContradiction: The entire premise of the comic; Lance always figures out the real culprit from a single slip of the tongue.
* MisplacedWildlife: The answer to [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/14.html this puzzle]] ([[spoiler:the supposed Near East footage shows two-humped Asian camels instead of one-humped African camels]]).
* NeverSuicide: A number of puzzles involve faked suicide notes, e.g. [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/37.html here]].
* ViewersAreGeniuses: Figuring out some puzzles requires the reader to have knowledge of obscure trivia, such as knowing [[spoiler:when did postal cards first appear]] in the case of [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/11.html this strip]]. (It doesn't help that vital visual details are sometimes hard to make out in the online scans.) Some of them were probably easier back in the 40's. For example, [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/7.html this puzzle]] refers to something that was fairly recent news in 1948 but hardly remembered today.
* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: The solution to [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/31.html this puzzle]] involves [[spoiler:a British politician's supposed suicide note using American terms]]. Also applies to [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/44.html this strip]] where a man's nationality is determined by his use of a specific term.
* TilMurderDoUsPart: A number of comics have the victim's wife being the culprit, such as [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/28.html this one]].
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Although it's pretty much forgotten today, various installments of the strip can be found on [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/index.html James Lilek's website]].
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!!This comic shows examples of:
* ConvictionByContradiction: The entire premise of the comic; Lance always figures out the real culprit from a single slip of the tongue.
* MisplacedWildlife: The answer to [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/14.html this puzzle]] ([[spoiler:the supposed Near East footage shows two-humped Asian camels instead of one-humped African camels]]).
* NeverSuicide: A number of puzzles involve faked suicide notes, e.g. [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/37.html here]].
* ViewersAreGeniuses: Figuring out some puzzles requires the reader to have knowledge of obscure trivia, such as knowing [[spoiler:when did postal cards first appear]] in the case of [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/11.html this strip]]. (It doesn't help that vital visual details are sometimes hard to make out in the online scans.) Some of them were probably easier back in the 40's. For example, [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/7.html this puzzle]] refers to something that was fairly recent news in 1948 but hardly remembered today.
* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: The solution to [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/31.html this puzzle]] involves [[spoiler:a British politician's supposed suicide note using American terms]]. Also applies to [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/44.html this strip]] where a man's nationality is determined by his use of a specific term.
* TilMurderDoUsPart: A number of comics have the victim's wife being the culprit, such as [[https://www.lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/lance/strips/28.html this one]].
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