More recently, the nakdo gathers information about the family in question by asking around and comparing responses: kikiawaseru/toriawaseru (inquire variously and compare).
He first calls upon his old boy network of foreign intelligence and police contacts to inquire if they have any records of a top-class political assassin.
For instance, mystery shoppers at a restaurant may pretend they are lactose-intolerant, or a clothing store mystery shopper could inquire about gift wrapping services.
Children's amazing creative will to inquire and pursue an idea (whisper it) without a learning objective appears, quite genuinely, to have been crushed and forgotten.