“Treasure at the Museum” is a Murdoku case from the Manor & Museum category: a board of 7×7, 6 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: 7×7, rated Medium, with 5 rooms. Every person — 7 in all — takes a row and a column of their own.
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
R1
B
C
C
P
R2
S
Bo
R3
S
Sh
C
R4
C
L
L
R5
P
C
R6
T
T
C
Pc
Pc
R7
P
C
C
Floor plan of “Treasure at the Museum”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window. A dashed edge marks a door.
Rooms
Entrance Hall — 12 tiles: Plant, Chair, Table
Main Gallery — 16 tiles: Boulder, Chair, Statue, Shelf
Exposition — 9 tiles: Chair, Plant, Box
Vault — 6 tiles: Locker
Security — 6 tiles: PC, Chair
Objects on the board
C Chair (can be stood on)
P Plant (blocks the tile)
L Locker (blocks the tile)
Pc PC (blocks the tile)
S Statue (blocks the tile)
T Table (blocks the tile)
B Boulder (blocks the tile)
Bo Box (blocks the tile)
Sh Shelf (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.
Alex — a man with black hair, a beard and glasses
He was beside a locker
Bella — a woman with blond hair
She was beside a plant
Carol — a woman with white hair
She was in the Security
Dalia — a woman with blond hair
She was on a chair and she was in the Exposition
Edison — a man with a bald head
He was north of a box
Floyd — a man with a bald head and a beard
He was on a chair and he was in the same column as a shelf
The victim, Vicky, 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: 3 possible tiles
Bella: 5 possible tiles
Carol: 4 possible tiles
Dalia: 2 possible tiles
Edison: 5 possible tiles
Floyd: 2 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Edison: only row 1 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.