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Knox 5 is basically supposed to ban culprits that are 'acceptable targets' or cliched culprits, not just foreigners per se. It's about avoiding that "easy way out" a lot of mysteries of Knox's time had.
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And this was done because almost all mysteries around that time, just threw in a new character at the end to be the killer. And it was stupid.
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The way I see it, Knox 5 in the Uminekoverse would restrict the possible culprits to being one of the 18 as they are presented, denying the theories involving Kasumi, a fake Battler, or Nanjo's granddaughter. I'd like to say it also denies the servants, since they're basically the ultimate cliche culprits, as well.
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Yeah it restricts it to being the 18 people. But the servants haven't been tossed out knox's 5th was because it isn't even a mystery if a new character just gets thrown in to be the killer, the reader doesn't even get the hear about them until the end when they are caught.
Oh yeah, I copied and pasted knox's rules. Well I cleaned it up a bit, fixed the old english.