The novel twist is that a playing piece can move onto a "hotspot" and trigger tiny speakers to sound out a clue to help divine the murderer.

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Yeah, it doesn't emulate a full surround sound system altogether that well -- the clue's in the "virtual" -- but it looks pretty good and is definitely compact, which is sort of the point with these kinds of devices.

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