“Blood, Sweat and Hay” 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
Co
M
T
T
R2
Co
R3
C
M
W
R4
M
W
M
R5
C
M
P
R
R6
P
Floor plan of “Blood, Sweat and Hay”. 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 blond hair
In her room there was a man
Bella — a woman with black hair
She was on a mud puddle
Carol — a woman with blond hair and glasses
She was east of at least a man
Dylan — a man with a bald head, a beard and glasses
He was beside rubble. Another suspect was beside the same rubble.
Elsa — a woman with brown hair
She was south of Anna
The victim, Vesna, 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:
Anna: 25 possible tiles
Bella: 5 possible tiles
Carol: 25 possible tiles
Dylan: 3 possible tiles
Elsa: 25 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Carol is east of someone with a matching trait – impossible cells removed.
Elsa is south of Anna – impossible cells removed.
Carol: only column 6 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.