Sheraton Macao Hotel
Ever wanted to play detective? Now you can. A new show at the Sheraton Macao promises to bring the Sherlock Holmes out in all of us.
Inspired by the US hit TV drama series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (which premiered in 2000 and is currently nearing the end of its 13th season), "CSI: The Experience" is an interactive whodunnit exhibition that puts logical thinking to the test by way of three murder mysteries.
In one case a car is crashed into a living room in suburban America, but the blood spatter doesn't quite tally with where the driver was found. In another the only piece of evidence is a human skeleton half buried in the desert. But how are visitors to deduce who the murderers are and their motives from such limited evidence?
The devil is in the detail, says Sebastian Schubert, the production manager. Investigators will have to look closely at the evidence - a skid mark, a shoe print or a ring - and put it into context. A guide is on hand to prompt those who are really stuck, he adds.
But collecting on-scene evidence is only the beginning of an elaborate investigation that also includes examining finger prints, blood spatter analysis, toxicology reports, forensic evidence and an autopsy report. At the end visitors present their findings at a computer terminal where Gilbert "Gil" Grissom (played by William Petersen), the head investigator in the show for the first nine seasons, says whether they solved the cases.