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* AndYourRewardIsClothes: You get some random items to [[VirtualPaperDoll dress up your character avatar]] as rewards for some of the side-quests you complete.
* AndYourRewardIsEdible: Each time you increase in rank (which happens every couple of level-ups), you get a potato chip pack, which restores 50 points to your energy bar. Completing some of the side-quests gives you a burger, which restores your energy bar by 100 points.
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* TheDon: Anton Levin, the victim in Case 5, was the head of the local Russian mafia.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Grace Delaney, the head of the department's forensics laboratory, is the only woman in the main cast.[[hottip:*:Unless your character avatar is female.]]
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* TheCoroner: Nathan.


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* TechnoBabble: Alex, being the head of the department's digital forensics team.

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[[caption-width-right:347:]][[caption-width-right:347:The main cast, left to right: Alex, Nathan, Chief Samuel King, Agent Jones, Grace Delaney, and Ramirez.]]



* HotScientist: Grace.



* TheJudge: This one is a stern black woman, who shows up once you've correctly deduced which suspect is the case's killer, to pass sentence on that individual.

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* TheJudge: This one is Olivia Hall, a stern black woman, who shows up once you've correctly deduced which suspect is the case's killer, to pass sentence on that individual.
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* BagOfHolding: In Case 3, you and Jones have to search the victim's book-bag for clues. The bag, which itself counts as a crime scene, contains all manner of items, very few of which you'd reasonably expect to find inside a student's book-bag: a sheriff's badge, a bar of chocolate, a spray-paint can, a six-sided die, a pen, a coin, a knife, a wad of cash, an envelope, a lollipop, a toothbrush, a baseball, a pair of scissors, a hamburger, a cellular phone, a paint-tube, a spoon, a bottle, a table-tennis racket, a letter-opener, a knuckle-duster, a pack of chewing gum, a purse with cosmetics, a watch, a notebook, a wrench...

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* BagOfHolding: In Case 3, you and Jones have to search the victim's book-bag for clues. The bag, which itself counts as a hidden-items crime scene, contains all manner of items, very few stuff, although admittedly only two sections of which you'd reasonably expect to find inside a student's book-bag: the bag are shown open. The items include: a sheriff's badge, a bar of chocolate, a spray-paint can, a six-sided die, a pen, a coin, a knife, a wad of cash, an envelope, a lollipop, a toothbrush, a baseball, a pair of scissors, a hamburger, a cellular phone, a paint-tube, a spoon, a bottle, a table-tennis racket, a letter-opener, a knuckle-duster, a pack of chewing gum, a purse with cosmetics, a watch, a notebook, a wrench...you know what, just look [[http://images.wikia.com/criminal-case-grimsborough/images/1/18/Criminal-Case-Jennifers-Backpack.jpg here]].
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* BagOfHolding: In Case 3, you and Jones have to search the victim's book-bag for clues. The bag, which itself counts as a crime scene, contains all manner of items, very few of which you'd reasonably expect to find inside a student's book-bag: a sheriff's badge, a bar of chocolate, a spray-paint can, a six-sided die, a pen, a coin, a knife, a wad of cash, an envelope, a lollipop, a toothbrush, a baseball, a pair of scissors, a hamburger, a cellular phone, a paint-tube, a spoon, a bottle, a table-tennis racket, a letter-opener, a knuckle-duster, a pack of chewing gum, a purse with cosmetics, a watch, a notebook, a wrench...
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* MotiveRant: Most of the guilty parties deliver one of these once you identify them.
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* TheKillerWasLeftHanded: You make this discovery about the killer in Case 4. Three of that case's suspects are left-handed.
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* GottaCatchThemAll: There are numerous trophies you can attain by completing specific criteria within gameplay.

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* GottaCatchThemAll: There are numerous 169 trophies you can attain by completing specific criteria within gameplay.
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* TheJudge: This one is a stern black woman, who shows up once you've correctly deduced which suspect is the case's killer, to pass sentence on that individual.
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* DestroyTheEvidence: Happens in a few cases, most usually concerning incriminating documents that serve as vital clues. Part of the gameplay involves putting these items' pieces back together to form the whole.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Anton Levin, the victim in Case 5, did not have a good relationship with his son Mikhail; so much so, in fact, that he had already disowned the younger man prior to the start of the case. [[spoiler:He'd been sleeping with Mikhail's girlfriend too, which prompted Mikhail to kill him]].

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* WellDoneSonGuy: Anton Levin, the victim in Case 5, did not have a good relationship with his son Mikhail; so much so, in fact, that he had already disowned the younger man prior to the start of the case. [[spoiler:He'd However, when interrogated, Mikhail claims that he didn't care about being disowned, since he'd come to hate his father anyway. [[spoiler:It's after discovering that Anton had been sleeping with Mikhail's girlfriend too, which that Mikhail was prompted Mikhail to kill him]].
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* PrisonRape: Jones announces that [[spoiler:Bulldog]] and [[spoiler:Mikhail Levin]] need to watch out for this when they go to prison for their crimes.

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* PrisonRape: Jones announces that [[spoiler:Bulldog]] [[spoiler:Bulldog and [[spoiler:Mikhail Mikhail Levin]] need to should watch out for this when they go after being arrested and sent to prison for their crimes.prison.
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* AxCrazy: Linda Lovara.


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* TheFundamentalist: Linda Lovara.
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:In Case 6. The victim, a CorruptCop, was shot dead by his partner, with his own gun, when the two men were struggling for the weapon after the victim attempted to kill the other cop]].



* PrisonRape: Jones announces that [[spoiler:Bulldog]] and [[spoiler:Mikhail Levin]] need to watch out for this when they go to prison for their crimes.



* SharpDressedMan: Dimitri Balanchine.
* SmugSnake: Both Tony Marconi and Dimitri Balanchine.



* VirtualPaperDoll: You can make your character avatar male or female, and adjust their hair, facial expression, and clothing as you see fit. Some hairstyles, facial expressions, and clothing accessories can be unlocked when you level up to a certain extent, some have to be purchased with in-game coins (which you earn from each crime scene you investigate), and others are gained as rewards for finishing the side-quests associated with each case.

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* VirtualPaperDoll: You can make your character avatar male or female, and adjust their hair, facial expression, and clothing as you see fit. Some hairstyles, facial expressions, and clothing accessories can be unlocked when you level up to a certain extent, some have to be purchased with in-game coins (which you earn from each crime scene you investigate), and others are gained as rewards for finishing the side-quests associated with each case.case.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Anton Levin, the victim in Case 5, did not have a good relationship with his son Mikhail; so much so, in fact, that he had already disowned the younger man prior to the start of the case. [[spoiler:He'd been sleeping with Mikhail's girlfriend too, which prompted Mikhail to kill him]].

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* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Bulldog in Case 4.



* AssholeVictim: Most of the murder victims were ''not'' well-liked by a number of the people they associated with because of this. For example, Case #7's victim was a crooked building contractor who tore down a church to erect a new building project on the land, an act that earned him a lot of anger from other people.

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* AssholeVictim: Most of the murder victims were ''not'' well-liked by a number of the people they associated with because of this. For example, Case #7's 7's victim was a crooked building contractor who tore down a church to erect a new building project on the land, an act that earned him a lot of anger from other people.



* TheInformant: Bart Williams. Jones has little tolerance or patience for him, but his information is always valuable.



* MismatchedEyes: Linda Lovara, one of the suspects in Case #7, has a right eye with a white iris and a left eye with a black iris.

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* LoveTriangle: [[spoiler:In Case 3. The victim was sleeping with the boyfriend of the butcher's daughter, who...[[LoveMakesYouEvil did not]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse take it well]]]].
* MismatchedEyes: Linda Lovara, one of the suspects in Case #7, 7, has a right eye with a white iris and a left eye with a black iris.



* TattooedCrook: All members of the local Vipers Gang have a tattoo of a curled-up snake somewhere on their bodies.

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* TattooedCrook: All members of the local Vipers Gang have a tattoo of a curled-up snake somewhere on their bodies. Also, Bulldog has a tattoo of the letter B with a spiked collar around it, on his neck.
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* TattooedCrook: All members of the local Vipers Gang have a tattoo of a curled-up snake somewhere on their bodies.
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* MismatchedEyes: Linda Lovara, one of the suspects in Case #7, has a right eye with a white iris and a left eye with a black iris.
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* AntiPoopSocking: Each energy point, which you use to play the different scenes, takes three minutes to recharge. Since you always have 110 energy points as the base amount, if you use up all of that, you have to wait approximately five hours for the bar to be fully charged (unless you get extra donated energy points from other players). The forensic analyses performed by your in-game CSI team will also take anywhere between half an hour to 18 hours real-time to complete.

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* AntiPoopSocking: Each energy point, which you use to play the different scenes, takes three minutes to recharge. Since you always have 110 energy points as the base amount, if you use up all of that, you have to wait approximately five hours for the bar to be fully charged (unless you get extra donated energy points or replenishing items from other players). The forensic analyses performed by your in-game CSI team will also take anywhere between half an hour to 18 hours real-time to complete.
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* TheLabRat: Alex.
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Not to be confused with ''Series/CriminalMinds''.
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The game is played by more than 10 million users through Facebook, and recently got 25 million "likes" on the same site.
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* DownInTheDumps: One case has you visiting a suspect in the local slum district, while another forces you to scrounge through the sewers for clues.


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* PoliceAreUseless: Some people in Grimsborough have this opinion of the local cops, especially when it comes to complaints getting addressed quickly. The reason for this is Ramirez holding the IdiotBall.

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''Criminal Case'' is a Flash-player PuzzleGame which was developed by the Pretty Simple gaming company and released on November 17, 2012, designed in the mold of the ''{{CSI}}'' series, and available for play through {{Facebook}}. Specifically, it's a HiddenObjectGame which hides all sorts of objects inside various crime scenes.

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''Criminal Case'' is a Flash-player PuzzleGame which was developed by the Pretty Simple gaming company Games and released on November 17, 2012, designed in the mold of the ''{{CSI}}'' series, and available for play through {{Facebook}}. Specifically, it's a HiddenObjectGame which hides all sorts of objects inside various crime scenes.


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* BadLiar: In one side-quest, while retrieving a hooker's lost purse, you and Jones decide to go through it to make sure it's really hers (or rather, Jones convinces you to go through it). Later, when the woman asks Jones if her purse was searched, he tries to deny it...but she calls him out on lying, while saying that a woman can know when her stuff's been searched.


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* DevilInPlainSight: Tony Marconi. Jones ''wishes'' the police could nab Marconi for something, anything, but Marconi's too smart to be caught.


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* HintsAreForLosers: Each time you go to a crime scene, you can take a fellow player's avatar (or Jones, if all of the fellow player avatars are used up), and around their avatar icon is a bar with a maximum of five hints, to point out where the hidden items are in the scene if you get stuck. However, the more unused hints you have when you find all the items, the more points you receive at the end, meaning the inverse is true the more hints you use.


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* IdiotBall: Handled by Ramirez one too many times. Jones frequently gets exasperated with him because of it.


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* JustifiedTutorial: The game's first case serves as this, with Jones as the tutor.


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* LimitedWardrobe: Aside from your player character, nobody seems to change their clothes at any time.[[hottip:*:Except for special events outside of gameplay, where the game's makers will hand out replenishing items to players; on Facebook, this is indicated by showing the main cast in clothes such as tuxedos or chef outfits.]]


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* PointAndClickMap: The main map for Grimsborough, where you can go from one section of the city to another, choosing to leave one case to go to another.
* PrecisionFStrike: Happens very frequently.


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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Tony Marconi.

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''Criminal Case'' is a Flash-player PuzzleGame in the mold of the ''{{CSI}}'' series, available for play through {{Facebook}}. Specifically, it's a HiddenObjectGame which hides all sorts of objects inside various crime scenes.

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''Criminal Case'' is a Flash-player PuzzleGame which was developed by the Pretty Simple gaming company and released on November 17, 2012, designed in the mold of the ''{{CSI}}'' series, and available for play through {{Facebook}}. Specifically, it's a HiddenObjectGame which hides all sorts of objects inside various crime scenes.


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* AnimeHair: Jones's hair actually sticks straight up at the front.
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* AssholeVictim: Most of the murder victims were ''not'' well-liked by a number of the people they associated with because of this. For example, Case #7's victim was a crooked building contractor who tore down a church to erect a new building project on the land, an act that earned him a lot of anger from other people.


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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of the deaths you're called on to investigate fall under this. Just for a few examples, one victim was sliced open and hung up among pig carcasses in a butcher's store, another had his hand sawed off and bled to death in a bathtub, and a third was lashed on his back and then crucified.


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* PuzzleGame: What the game is, overall. Besides the HiddenObjectGame aspect, there are also some mini-games that take the form of forensic analyses and reassembling of destroyed clues, which give you a greater energy payout the faster you can solve them.
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* HelloInsertNameHere: You are asked to input your name the first time you start playing.


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* HyperspaceArsenal: You can carry around any number of orange juices, potato chips, hamburgers, and playing cards you like.
* ItsUpToYou: Deliberately invoked by Jones concerning you, several times, when he presses you to investigate certain crime scenes that he'd rather not get involved with himself (though he winds up accompanying you anyway). Played for comedy a lot of times, such as when you have to investigate a sewer to find critical clues to aid your investigation.
* LevelGrinding: The more levels you get, the higher you can get promoted.
* LevelUpFillUp: Your energy point bar gets refilled to the maximum with each level-up.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* OhCrap: Some characters get this expression a lot, combined with profuse sweating.
* RookieRedRanger: Your character gets thrust into this role, ostensibly to help with the growing case-load the Grimsborough police department has to contend with. Fortunately, you are partnered with Jones to help you out and provide support.
* TheSyndicate: Tony Marconi runs one.
* TimedMission: Each level has a mini-game in which you have to find as many hidden objects as possible before the timer runs out. When the mini-game's level-stars for that level are maxed out at five, the amount of time you are given is maxed out at 70 seconds.
* VirtualPaperDoll: You can make your character avatar male or female, and adjust their hair, facial expression, and clothing as you see fit. Some hairstyles, facial expressions, and clothing accessories can be unlocked when you level up to a certain extent, some have to be purchased with in-game coins (which you earn from each crime scene you investigate), and others are gained as rewards for finishing the side-quests associated with each case.
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''Criminal Case'' is a Flash-player PuzzleGame in the mold of the ''{{CSI}}'' series, available for play through {{Facebook}}. Specifically, it's a HiddenObjectGame which hides all sorts of objects inside various crime scenes.

You take on the role of a rookie police officer, partnered with a police detective named Jones to solve all sorts of gruesome murders in the city of [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Grimsborough]]. Along the way, you and Jones have to contend with various quirky, shady, and outright bizarre characters, including the bumbling beat cop Ramirez and the mob boss Tony Marconi.

!!Examples of tropes in ''Criminal Case'' include:
* AntiPoopSocking: Each energy point, which you use to play the different scenes, takes three minutes to recharge. Since you always have 110 energy points as the base amount, if you use up all of that, you have to wait approximately five hours for the bar to be fully charged (unless you get extra donated energy points from other players). The forensic analyses performed by your in-game CSI team will also take anywhere between half an hour to 18 hours real-time to complete.
* BribingYourWayToVictory: You can use real-world money to purchase in-game energy restorers.
* CityOfAdventure: Grimsborough.
* CrapsackWorld: Every level you play has a murder as the main mystery for you to solve. Plus there's a lot of gang warfare and mob rivalry going on in Grimsborough, and at least one case of CorruptCop has affected the Grimsborough P.D.
* EagleEyeDetection: Possessed by your character in-story, and it's also a necessary tool for players to accurately find the hidden items in various scenes.
* ExperiencePoints: Gained through playing the different stages, completing forensic analyses, and doing mini-games in the form of restoring torn-up evidence or magnifying of clues for minute evidence traces.
* GottaCatchThemAll: There are numerous trophies you can attain by completing specific criteria within gameplay.
* HiddenObjectGame

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