“Murder on the Piste” is a Murdoku case from the Ski Resort 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
S
Sn
Tr
R2
S
S
Sn
R3
Tr
R4
P
Pa
T
P
Tr
R5
T
P
T
Pa
Sn
R6
C
C
C
T
F
R7
Ca
T
T
C
C
Sk
Floor plan of “Murder on the Piste”. 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 white hair
She was in the same row as a tree, in a different room
Bernd — a man with a bald head and a beard
He was not beside a ski rack
Cyrus — a man with white hair
He was on a park bench
Dylan — a man with black hair and a beard
He was not beside a wall and he was alone with a male suspect
Elsa — a woman with brown hair
She was in the same row as a ski rack, in the same room and she was on a chair
Freya — a woman with white hair
She was north-west of every parasol, in a different room
The victim, Volker, 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: 10 possible tiles
Bernd: 33 possible tiles
Cyrus: 3 possible tiles
Dylan: 2 possible tiles
Elsa: 2 possible tiles
Freya: 3 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Elsa: only row 7 possible – blocked for others.
Dylan: 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.