“The Last Tenant” 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
T
T
R2
P
C
C
Ch
C
B
B
R3
T
T
P
R4
P
Ch
Ch
P
Ch
Ch
P
R5
C
C
C
Ch
Tv
R6
T
C
B
C
R7
C
Ch
C
B
P
R8
T
Tv
C
R9
T
T
T
Floor plan of “The Last Tenant”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below.
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 and a beard
Exactly one suspect with glasses was in his room
Bella — a woman with black hair
She was on a chair and In her room there was a male suspect on a chair
Cyrus — a man with brown hair and glasses
He was south of every chair and he was not beside a plant
Dalia — a woman with brown hair and glasses
She was beside a plant
Edison — a man with brown hair and a beard
He was in the Kitchen and he was not beside a table
Freya — a woman with blond hair and glasses
She was beside a bed
Grant — a man with a bald head
He was not on a bed and he was alone in the room
Hana — a woman with white hair and glasses
In her room there was another suspect who had a beard in a corner
The victim, Viola, is a woman. 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: 47 possible tiles
Bella: 7 possible tiles
Cyrus: 7 possible tiles
Dalia: 14 possible tiles
Edison: 2 possible tiles
Freya: 4 possible tiles
Grant: 43 possible tiles
Hana: 47 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
In row 1 only R1/C8 is free – someone must be there, so column 8 is taken: the other cells of that column are crossed out.
Edison: only column 2 possible – blocked for others.
Freya: only column 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.