Lantern Clause: Card Mystery

Lantern Clause is a portrait puzzle game built around Rule Card Deduction. Every case hides a rule that connects playing-card ranks, suits, positions, and neighboring evidence. Flip witness cards, spend Lantern Oil, and use the Deduction Ledger to test constraints, expose contradictions, and reconstruct the hidden rule before naming a suspect. Explore a bright paper-lantern town through 24 story cases, daily fixed-rule puzzles, deduction endgames, and limited-flip Cold Files. Follow clues in character conversations, record your assumptions, and add keepsakes to Lantern Square as your understanding of the town grows. Each witness card states a small, specific condition: a rank higher than the marked card, a suit shared with the account on your left, or a location outside the east wing. These statements form a solvable card-logic language. The Ledger lets you compare every assumption with…