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Originally Posted by haguruma
We had the chained locked-room in EP1. Well okay, probably all of EP4. The knock at the door in EP5. But apart from that there is nothing that is basically only constructed by a lie, even though of course somebody lying is a part of the solution.
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- Shannon's presence in the shed in ep1 is constructed solely by a lie.
- According to Will, the chain-locked room of ep1 is constructed by a lie.
- Kanon's death in ep1 is a lie.
- Most of ep3 is presumably genuine, at least in the sense that something other than a lie holds the puzzles together.
- The door to the chapel in ep2 may have been locked solely because someone said it was.
- As you said, essentially all of ep4 except the shed murders is basically a lie, or at least Battler has no means of distinguishing whether that is so.
- The knock in ep5 is (apparently) a lie.
- The solution to the Logic Error is predicated on misinformation, which is like a lie.
So while, yes, a number of the scenarios were constructed through actual creation of a physical mystery or use of sleight of hand, or a construct embellished into a mystery through lies, a goodly number of the mysteries were made to seem important or complicated, and the solution is simply that they didn't happen at all except in someone's lies. They may as well not even have talked about those in the meta-world, as the whole thing could've been dispensed with using Battler's ep3 garden battle logic: "That shit didn't happen."