“A Fall from the Battlements” is a Murdoku case from the Castle 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
Bo
H
Ca
Th+C
Ca
W
R2
H
C
C
R3
C
R4
B
S
F
R5
B
Cm
T
R6
W
Cr
P
P
P
R7
W
Cr
T
Floor plan of “A Fall from the Battlements”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below.
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 and glasses
She was in the same column as a barrel, in the same room
Bella — a woman with blond hair and glasses
She was south of every haystack, in the same room
Carol — a woman with white hair
She was beside a fireplace
Dylan — a man with white hair
He was in column 4
Edison — a man with white hair and a beard
He was beside a boulder
Freya — a woman with grey hair and glasses
She was in a room adjoining the Courtyard
The victim, Vlad, is a man. 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: 2 possible tiles
Bella: 3 possible tiles
Carol: 2 possible tiles
Dylan: 6 possible tiles
Edison: 2 possible tiles
Freya: 19 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Bella: only row 3 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.