“Vera's Last Ride” 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 Hard, with 5 rooms. Every person — 6 in all — takes a row and a column of their own.
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
R1
S
C+S
C+S
M
R2
Te
R3
P
T
R4
L
Ca
R5
Ca
H
W
R6
Ch
Ta
T
W
Floor plan of “Vera's Last Ride”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window. A dashed edge marks a door.
Rooms
Pasture (outdoors) — 6 tiles: Horse, Tree
Yard (outdoors) — 9 tiles: Street, Car, Plant
Garden (outdoors) — 9 tiles: Mud puddle, Tent, Tree
Shed — 6 tiles: Wooden crate
Farmhouse — 6 tiles: Lamp, Carpet, Chair, Table
Objects on the board
S Street (can be stood on)
C Car (can be stood on)
Ca Carpet (can be stood on)
W Wooden crate (blocks the tile)
T Tree (blocks the tile)
Ch Chair (can be stood on)
H Horse (can be stood on)
L Lamp (blocks the tile)
M Mud puddle (can be stood on)
P Plant (blocks the tile)
Ta Table (blocks the tile)
Te Tent (can be stood on)
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 brown hair
She was north-east of Dalia
Bella — a woman with white hair and glasses
She was in column 6
Carol — a woman with white hair
She was not beside a chair
Dalia — a woman with grey hair and glasses
She was not beside a wall
Edison — a man with a bald head and a beard
He and Bella were neither both inside nor both outside
The victim, Vera, is a woman. Nothing else about them is known, and no clue depends on it.
Clues About the Whole Scene
No room was empty.
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: 29 possible tiles
Bella: 5 possible tiles
Carol: 28 possible tiles
Dalia: 2 possible tiles
Edison: 29 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Anna is north-east of Dalia – impossible cells removed.
Anna: only row 1 possible – blocked for others.
Dalia: 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.