follow the clues
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
- cluesHints toward answers
- investigateSeek facts systematically
- trailPath through wilderness
puzzle · hunt · solve · riddle · breadcrumbs · magnifying glass · sleuth · evidence · track · search · hints · scavenger · decipher · footprints · unravel · treasure · suspect · decode
investigative method
follow the cluesstab in the dark
Guess without basis
wing it · jump to conclusions · fly blind · grasp at straws · trial and error