“Deadly Country Air” is a Murdoku case from the Farm category: a board of 8×8, 7 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: 8×8, rated Easy, with 6 rooms. Every person — 8 in all — takes a row and a column of their own.
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8
R1
W
C
W
T
T
R2
T
R3
B
R4
C
R5
Pl
R6
Pl
P
Co
R7
P
P
P
Co
R8
P
W
Floor plan of “Deadly Country Air”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window. A dashed edge marks a door.
Rooms
Pasture (outdoors) — 10 tiles
Yard (outdoors) — 9 tiles: Box, Chair, Plant
Garden (outdoors) — 12 tiles: Tree
Shed — 9 tiles: Wooden crate, Chair
Cowshed — 9 tiles: Cow, Wooden crate
Pigsty — 15 tiles: Plant, Pig
Objects on the board
P Pig (blocks the tile)
W Wooden crate (blocks the tile)
T Tree (blocks the tile)
C Chair (can be stood on)
Co Cow (blocks the tile)
Pl Plant (blocks the tile)
B Box (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
She was the only person beside a window
Bernd — a man with a bald head and a beard
He was in the Pasture and he was in column 5
Cyrus — a man with brown hair
He was beside a plant
Dalia — a woman with white hair
She was beside a wooden crate
Elsa — a woman with black hair
She was in a corner
Freya — a woman with brown hair and glasses
She was beside a chair and she was not beside a wall
Grant — a man with brown hair and glasses
He was beside a pig and he was in row 6
The victim, Vivek, is a man. Nothing else about them is known, and no clue depends on it.
Clues About the Whole Scene
No room was empty.
How Hard It Really Is
Deduction steps from the first clue to the verdict
16
Steps before anyone can be placed for certain
7
How to Start — Without Spoilers
Before anything else, count where each suspect could be if you only read their own clues:
Anna: 4 possible tiles
Bernd: 2 possible tiles
Cyrus: 4 possible tiles
Dalia: 6 possible tiles
Elsa: 13 possible tiles
Freya: a single tile — their own clue settles it
Grant: 3 possible tiles
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.