“Marked Down for Murder” is a Murdoku case from the Supermarket 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 5 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
S
Ch
T
Ch
R2
W
S
Ch
C
Ch
R3
L
C
S
R4
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
R5
C
Ca
Ch
Ca
Ch
Ca
C
R6
C
Ch
S
Ch
T
C
R7
S
C
T
S
Ch
T
C
R8
S
C
C
C
C
R9
S
S
W
W
Floor plan of “Marked Down for Murder”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window. A dashed edge marks a door.
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 and glasses
She was south of at least one suspect who had a bald head
Bernd — a man with brown hair and glasses
He was in column 3
Cyrus — a man with a bald head
He was beside a locker
Dylan — a man with brown hair and a beard
A suspect with black hair was in his room
Edison — a man with blond hair
He was in the same row as a table, in the same room and he was beside a window
Floyd — a man with white hair, a beard and glasses
In his room there was another suspect who had a bald head on a chair
Grant — a man with black hair
He was in the same row as a wooden crate, in a different room and he was exactly 4 columns west of Anna
Hugh — a man with a bald head
He was alone in the room and he was on a chair
The victim, Vito, is a man. Nothing else about them is known, and no clue depends on it.
Clues About the Whole Scene
Exactly 2 people were on a carpet.
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: 61 possible tiles
Bernd: 6 possible tiles
Cyrus: 2 possible tiles
Dylan: 61 possible tiles
Edison: 3 possible tiles
Floyd: 52 possible tiles
Grant: 8 possible tiles
Hugh: 9 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Anna is south of someone with a matching trait – impossible cells removed.
Grant was exactly 4 columns west of Anna
Edison: only row 7 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.