“The Mafia Dinner” is a Murdoku case from the Hotel & Restaurant category: a board of 8×8, 7 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: 8×8, rated Hard, with 4 rooms. Every person — 8 in all — takes a row and a column of their own.
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8
R1
C
T
C
C
C
R2
P
T
T
R3
S
C
T
To
R4
T
T
P
T
R5
C
C
C
C
Tv
R6
T
T
T
T
T
S
R7
T
Tv
R8
S
S
S
Floor plan of “The Mafia Dinner”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window. A dashed edge marks a door.
Rooms
Dining Hall — 30 tiles: Chair, Table, Plant, Shelf, TV
Kitchen — 17 tiles: Table, TV, Shelf
Storage — 7 tiles: Shelf
Restroom — 10 tiles: Chair, Table, Toilet
Objects on the board
T Table (blocks the tile)
C Chair (can be stood on)
S Shelf (blocks the tile)
P Plant (blocks the tile)
Tv TV (blocks the tile)
To Toilet (can be stood on)
The Suspects and Their Clues
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.
Alex — a man with black hair
In his room there was another man
Bella — a woman with blond hair
She was south of Carol
Carol — a woman with white hair
She was beside a table. Another suspect was beside the same table.
Dalia — a woman with brown hair and glasses
She was alone in the room and she was not beside a wall
Edison — a man with a bald head and a beard
He was beside a plant and he was beside a door
Floyd — a man with black hair and glasses
He was beside a door
Greta — a woman with white hair and glasses
She was beside a door and she was beside a chair
The victim, Viktor, is a man. Nothing else about them is known, and no clue depends on it.
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:
Alex: 42 possible tiles
Bella: 42 possible tiles
Carol: 20 possible tiles
Dalia: 12 possible tiles
Edison: 2 possible tiles
Floyd: 6 possible tiles
Greta: 3 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Bella is south of Carol – impossible cells removed.
Carol must stand beside the same object (a table) as another person – impossible cells removed.
Edison & Greta: only rows 4, 5 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.