“The Guest List” is a Murdoku case from the House & Home category: a board of 9×9, 8 suspects and one victim. Read the clues, work out where everybody was standing, and name the suspect who was left alone with the body.
The Board
The floor plan as the case hands it to you: 9×9, rated Hard, with 6 rooms. Every person — 9 in all — takes a row and a column of their own.
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8
C9
R1
P
R2
P
T
T
P
T
R3
C
T
T+C
R4
C
C
Ch
Ch
Ch
C
C
R5
T
T
T
R6
T
Tv
T
T
R7
C
Tv
R8
C
Ch
P
C
R9
P
C
C
C
Floor plan of “The Guest List”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window. A dashed edge marks a door.
Each suspect comes with what the witnesses remember. Read them all before placing anyone — a clue about one person is very often what pins down another.
Anna — a woman with black hair
She was not beside a chair
Bella — a woman with red hair and glasses
She was north-east of every chair
Carol — a woman with grey hair
She was in the same column as a TV, in the same room
Dylan — a man with blond hair and a beard
He was exactly 7 columns west of Carol
Elsa — a woman with brown hair and glasses
She was in the same row as a chair, in a different room
Freya — a woman with black hair
She was in the Dining Room
Greta — a woman with blond hair
She was north of every table, in a different room
Hugh — a man with a bald head and a beard
He was alone with a suspect who had grey hair and he was beside a door
The victim, Vidal, is a man. Nothing else about them is known, and no clue depends on it.
Clues About the Whole Scene
No room was empty.
Exactly 1 person was on a chair.
How Hard It Really Is
Deduction steps from the first clue to the verdict
Before anything else, count where each suspect could be if you only read their own clues:
Anna: 56 possible tiles
Bella: 6 possible tiles
Carol: 4 possible tiles
Dylan: 63 possible tiles
Elsa: 8 possible tiles
Freya: 8 possible tiles
Greta: 2 possible tiles
Hugh: 12 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Dylan was exactly 7 columns west of Carol
Greta: only row 1 possible – blocked for others.
Bella & Freya: only rows 2, 3 possible – blocked for others.
That is as far as this page goes. From here on it is yours — the in-game hint giver explains each next step if you get stuck, without giving the answer away.
This case has exactly one solution, and it can be reached by forward deduction alone — no guessing.