The Daily True-Crime Puzzle
GUILTY or
NOT?
Hear a real criminal case every day. Read the facts, weigh both sides, then decide: GUILTY or NOT?
GUILTY or NOT? is the daily true-crime puzzle from LAWGAMES: a real court case puzzle every day. Read the facts as the court had them, weigh both sides, decide GUILTY or NOT, then see what the court actually ruled.
Every case is a real, reported decision — from the Supreme Court of the United States to state courts of appeal — summarised as the court had the facts, with the names held back until the verdict. The case library holds every case that has aired, with its citation.
One new case a day. The case brief gives you the facts, then the prosecution’s argument and the defense’s. You commit to one verdict, and the court’s real decision — and its reasoning — is revealed. Right calls build your streak and your points, and points carry you up the bench: Magistrate, District Judge, Circuit Judge, Appeals Justice, Senior Justice, Chief Justice. The Court Archives let you go back and judge past cases. How to play.
Browse the library by category — homicide, drug offenses, search and seizure, confessions and interrogation, assault, property crime, conspiracy and more — or look up any term in the legal glossary, from mens rea to probable cause, each linked to the cases that turn on it. In Canada, play the Canadian edition, built on Canadian cases and the Criminal Code.