To give you a hint blackmail is a little scheme. If you look at all the games that use it there is a 100% failure rate in avoiding plot holes when it comes to adult games.
Blackmail isn't just "a little scheme" in real life, there are a lot of factors involved.
Especially if you want it in exchange for sex.
It's not impossible sure, we have people that can get away with beating their wife without much intelligence or effort.
But even the most intelligent cannot guarantee they can pull it off.
That just means we all need to take some creative liberties sometimes.
0.1 to 0.2% or 1 in every 1000 to 2000 has my level of intelligence.
That isn't that special. I know guys who make me feel like an idiot.
I went to school with a guy who wasn't just smart but he had an eidetic memory to boot.
He was probably 20 IQ above me.
So how would they know the behaviour a big brain like you so they can compare with a fictional smart character?
How would they even comprehend the behaviour of an intelligent person even if they meet one?
Seems like that is a plot hole your big brain missed.
If you look at generals throughout history all the ones who were successful and strategies are taught and studied today were smart. Many if not most were also smart outside of military and politics as well.
Nowadays we have games with strategy and management that can that can represent battles with much more complexity than real life, since battles weren't that complex historically.
So what is the problem with using a expert player's playthrough as a base for story and plot?
There is plenty of materials and tools you can use when writing a story if you know where to look.
My computer has terabytes of data. And that is not even mentioning the Internet that I am using to talk to you.
I am sorry but does your Brain have That?
You think writers can't have a notebook at hand?
Being able to correlate the relationship between different things without being told.
Again the same thing I keep fucking mentioning, you control the plot, you control the situation, you can create the puzzle itself.
So it's a completely non-issue when writing.
Application of principle or knowledge
Also known as Understanding the Knowledge.
Sure you need a baseline of Intelligence in order to truly understand some knowledge. But you can take your time.
And not all knowledge are that demanding.
But you can Write what you DO Know, as again you control the plot, you control the situation and you control factors from that apply from the things that you know.
Deriving knew knowledge from known knowledge or data or observation
No need for that when you are just using knowledge, what an Author Knows does not need to be the same as what an Character Knows.
Recognition of out comes based on information given. ~ a form of correlation.
Patterns,Heuristics and Strategies aren't anything new in Games, so if you can make a situation that simulates a game that applies.
And there are many Games in many Genres. Crusader Kings is a good example for something like politics.
Understanding abstract concepts.
Again understanding knowledge. Abstract or not.
If it wasn't so special quantum mechanics and other problems in science and math would have been solved ages ago.
So why hasn't your big brain solve them yet? And are hanging around on a porn site?
You may be intelligent but your self-awareness is zero.
No you aren't that special of a snowflake.