“Moving In with Murder” 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
T
R2
T
C
T
Tv
R3
T
P
R4
C
P
P
R5
C
B
B
R6
R7
T
T
R8
T
T
P
C
B
B
Tv
R9
C
Floor plan of “Moving In with Murder”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window.
Rooms
Kitchen — 12 tiles: Table, Chair
Living Room — 18 tiles: Chair, Table, TV
Guest Room — 12 tiles: Plant, Bed
Study — 6 tiles: Plant, Chair
Bedroom — 18 tiles: Plant, Chair, Bed, TV
Dining Room — 15 tiles: Table, Plant, Chair
Objects on the board
T Table (blocks the tile)
C Chair (can be stood on)
B Bed (can be stood on)
P Plant (blocks the tile)
Tv TV (blocks the tile)
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.
Anna — a woman with blond hair and glasses
She was alone with a suspect who had glasses and she was east of a bed (R5/C7)
Bernd — a man with a bald head and a beard
He was in the same row as a TV
Cyrus — a man with brown hair and a beard
He was on a bed
Dalia — a woman with white hair and glasses
She was beside a table. Another suspect was beside the same table.
Edison — a man with black hair, a beard and glasses
He was alone with a female suspect and he was beside a table and he was in the same row as a plant
Freya — a woman with white hair
She was alone in the room and she was beside a plant and she was in the same row as a bed
Greta — a woman with brown hair
She was east of a bed (R5/C8)
Hana — a woman with brown hair
She was on a chair and she was alone with a female suspect
The victim, Victor, is a man. Nothing else about them is known, and no clue depends on it.
Clues About the Whole Scene
Exactly 1 person was on a bed.
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: 16 possible tiles
Bernd: 11 possible tiles
Cyrus: 4 possible tiles
Dalia: 16 possible tiles
Edison: 4 possible tiles
Freya: 3 possible tiles
Greta: 7 possible tiles
Hana: 5 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Cyrus & Freya: only rows 5, 8 possible – blocked for others.
Dalia must stand beside the same object (a table) as another person – impossible cells removed.
Bernd: only row 2 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.