“Room with No View” 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 Medium, 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 “Room with No View”. 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 brown hair and glasses
She was not beside a wall
Bernd — a man with blond hair and glasses
He was in the Bar
Carol — a woman with black hair
She was beside a plant
Dalia — a woman with black hair and glasses
She was in the same row as a shelf and she was east of a tree (R8/C6)
Elsa — a woman with blond hair and glasses
She was in the Lobby and she was alone with a female suspect
Freya — a woman with white hair
She was beside a tree and she was in the same row as a table
Greta — a woman with brown hair
She was not beside a trash can and she was in the same row as a tree
Hugh — a man with a bald head and glasses
He was beside a shelf and he was in the same row as a shelf
The victim, Vidal, 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:
Anna: 9 possible tiles
Bernd: 9 possible tiles
Carol: 4 possible tiles
Dalia: 6 possible tiles
Elsa: 6 possible tiles
Freya: 2 possible tiles
Greta: 6 possible tiles
Hugh: 2 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Freya: only row 7 possible – blocked for others.
Greta: only row 8 possible – blocked for others.
Dalia & Hugh: only rows 1, 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.