“Do Not Disturb” is a Murdoku case from the Hotel & Restaurant 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
S
C
C
C
C
C
R2
C
T
C
T
C
C
T
T
T
R3
C
C
Ca
R4
P
Ca
R5
S
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
R6
C
C
Ca
Ca
R7
T
T
R8
C
C
Tr
Tr
R9
Ta
P
Floor plan of “Do Not Disturb”. 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.
Alex — a man with white hair, a beard and glasses
He was in column 7
Bella — a woman with white hair
She was beside a shelf
Cyrus — a man with blond hair and glasses
He was in the Front Desk and he was in the same column as a tree
Dalia — a woman with blond hair
She was beside a shelf and she was alone with a female suspect
Elsa — a woman with white hair
She was alone with a male suspect and she was in the same row as a plant
Freya — a woman with black hair and glasses
She was in column 3
Grant — a man with a bald head
He was not beside a wall
Hana — a woman with black hair
She was beside a tree and she was east of a tree (R8/C6)
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: 8 possible tiles
Bella: 4 possible tiles
Cyrus: 4 possible tiles
Dalia: 4 possible tiles
Elsa: 15 possible tiles
Freya: 8 possible tiles
Grant: 9 possible tiles
Hana: 4 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Alex: only column 7 possible – blocked for others.
Cyrus: only column 8 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.