... by learning to distinguish between 'bruteforce games' vs. 'inference based games ... (and are also unable to bruteforce because you want to find ... suppose it could change) by brute forcing, trying to finish them ...
I bruteforce my way through all the games also. If for some reason I know that a certain game is ridiculously hard, I diagram it as best as I can and then just answer the questions by forcing each answer against the rules.