“Small Farm, Big Murder” is a Murdoku case from the Farm category: a board of 6×6, 5 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: 6×6, rated Medium, with 5 rooms. Every person — 6 in all — takes a row and a column of their own.
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
R1
Co
M
T
T
R2
Co
R3
C
M
W
R4
M
W
M
R5
C
M
P
R
R6
P
Floor plan of “Small Farm, Big Murder”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below.
Rooms
Pasture (outdoors) — 8 tiles: Cow, Mud puddle
Garden (outdoors) — 5 tiles: Tree
Shed — 10 tiles: Wooden crate, Mud puddle, Rubble
Pigsty — 7 tiles: Mud puddle, Pig
Henhouse — 6 tiles: Chicken, Mud puddle
Objects on the board
M Mud puddle (can be stood on)
C Chicken (blocks the tile)
Co Cow (blocks the tile)
W Wooden crate (blocks the tile)
P Pig (blocks the tile)
T Tree (blocks the tile)
R Rubble (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 black hair
She was beside a chicken
Bella — a woman with blond hair
She was on a mud puddle and she was alone in a room with a cow
Carol — a woman with black hair
She was alone in a room with a pig
Dalia — a woman with brown hair
She was beside rubble
Edison — a man with brown hair
He was beside a tree
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: 4 possible tiles
Bella: 2 possible tiles
Carol: 5 possible tiles
Dalia: 3 possible tiles
Edison: 2 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Dalia & Edison: only columns 5, 6 possible – blocked for others.
Bella can only be in row 1 or column 3; so their intersection R1/C3 can hold no one (not a cell for Bella, blocked for everyone else) – removed.
Bella is alone in the Pasture – everyone else is excluded from it.
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.