Thank you for the feedback. It's tricky to get the difficulty balance just right. I won't spoil the kitchen scene but I will say this... there are a couple different ways one might arrive at the clue... it's not universal to all the rooms/photos but in this instance... look at what might be present in a certain quantity in the photo, then one fewer in the current state of the room and its "background".
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