Shaggy Search Technique: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Discworld]]''

** In ''[[The Fifth Elephant]]'', Vimes tries to blast open a secret compartment with a siege weapon. While struggling to aim it, he sets off the opening mechanism. He tries to pretend that that [[I Meant to Do That|was his plan all along]].

* ''[[Good Omens]]'': A variation was subverted in Pratchett and Gaiman's novel. Among the search techniques the heroine attempts in trying to find her lost book of prophecies is giving up theatrically and letting her gaze fall organically on a patch of ground—which, if she was in any sort of decent story, would be where the book was. Unfortunately, this isn't a world governed by the [[Theory of Narrative Causality]], so it's not there.

* Sort of in ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]''. Leia and others, looking for the Delta Source that is reporting things to Thrawn, rest for a bit in the room where most of the spying happens, and then Leia looks at a droid tending one of the decorative color-changing trees and notices the red ripples forming and spreading each time the droid clicks.