“The Last Dive” is a Murdoku case from the Pool & Spa 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 Hard, 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
L
P
Ho
P
R2
P
R3
W
T
Pa
R4
W
H
R5
T
R6
T
S
R7
H
Floor plan of “The Last Dive”. 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.
Alex — a man with a bald head
He was in column 6
Bella — a woman with white hair
She was north of a slide, in the same room
Cyrus — a man with a bald head and a beard
He was south of all women and he was not in a room adjoining the Main Pool
Dylan — a man with red hair and a beard
He was north of Elsa
Elsa — a woman with black hair
She was beside a water lily
Freya — a woman with brown hair and glasses
She was in a room adjoining the Sunbathing Lawn
The victim, Vita, is a woman. 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
Before anything else, count where each suspect could be if you only read their own clues:
Alex: 7 possible tiles
Bella: 2 possible tiles
Cyrus: 26 possible tiles
Dylan: 48 possible tiles
Elsa: 5 possible tiles
Freya: 29 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Cyrus is south of someone with a matching trait – impossible cells removed.
Dylan is north of Elsa – impossible cells removed.
Bella: only row 5 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.