“The Silent Room” 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 8 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
B
Ch
Tv
T
S
R2
B
P
P
B
T
P
R3
B
R4
P
Tv
C
T
R5
C
Ch
Ch
Tv
R6
T
T
R7
C
P
T
Ch
T
R8
C
Ch
T
C
C
S
T
R9
C
T
P
S
T
Floor plan of “The Silent Room”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window.
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 red hair
She was in row 1
Bella — a woman with grey hair and glasses
She was on a bed
Cyrus — a man with black hair
He was south-west of every TV, in a different room
Dalia — a woman with white hair
In her room there was another suspect beside a shelf
Edison — a man with a bald head, a beard and glasses
He was north-east of Dalia
Freya — a woman with blond hair
She was on a chair
Grant — a man with red hair and a beard
He and Anna were neither both inside nor both outside
Hana — a woman with red hair
She was south of every suspect who had a bald head
The victim, Viktor, is a man. 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: 6 possible tiles
Bella: 4 possible tiles
Cyrus: 6 possible tiles
Dalia: 5 possible tiles
Edison: 58 possible tiles
Freya: 5 possible tiles
Grant: 58 possible tiles
Hana: 58 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Edison is north-east of Dalia – impossible cells removed.
Hana is south of someone with a matching trait – impossible cells removed.
Anna: 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.