In “The Purloined Letter”, Poe uses a reference to a children’s game involving marbles to describe the way Dubin solved the mystery of the letter. The concept of the game involved a child putting an amount of marbles in his hand, closing it, and asking his opponent “are they even or odd?” The opponent will guess, and if it is correct, they gain a marble, and if they are incorrect, the lose a marble. One of the “masters” of this game used a special technique to guarantee his winning. He accomplished this by mimicking the thoughts he supposed his opponent would be having. Doing this allowed him to assume the sequence in which his opponent was utilizing and predicting the next move. Similarly, Dubin used this mechanism to discover the place