“Welcome Home” 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 7 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
To
T
Sh
P
T
F
R2
C
C
T
R3
C
S
L
R4
W
C
W
Ch
Ch
P
R5
S
C
T
T
Ch
R6
L
P
Tv
T
R7
S
C
C
Tv
L
C
R8
Ch
C
Ch+C
C
T
Ch+C
C
B
R9
T
C
T
B
B
Tv
B
Floor plan of “Welcome Home”. 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 blond hair and glasses
She was alone with a suspect who had glasses
Bernd — a man with white hair and a beard
He was south-west of a fridge, in the same room
Cyrus — a man with white hair
He was beside a bed
Dalia — a woman with blond hair
She was beside a plant and she was alone in the room
Elsa — a woman with blond hair and glasses
She was beside a TV
Floyd — a man with red hair and glasses
He was south-east of Cyrus
Grant — a man with blond hair
He was north of every lamp, in a different room
Hana — a woman with brown hair
In her room there was Grant on a carpet
The victim, Vita, is a woman. Nothing else about them is known, and no clue depends on it.
Clues About the Whole Scene
Exactly 1 room is empty.
Exactly 1 person was on a chair.
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: 57 possible tiles
Bernd: 3 possible tiles
Cyrus: 4 possible tiles
Dalia: 6 possible tiles
Elsa: 5 possible tiles
Floyd: 57 possible tiles
Grant: 5 possible tiles
Hana: 36 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Floyd is south-east of Cyrus – impossible cells removed.
Cyrus: only row 8 possible – blocked for others.
Floyd: only row 9 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.