“The Final Checkout” is a Murdoku case from the Supermarket 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 Medium, with 7 rooms. Every person — 8 in all — takes a row and a column of their own.
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8
R1
L
S
S
R2
C
B
R3
C
B
F
Ca
Ch
R4
L
F
F
C
C
R5
L
Ca
Ch
R6
B
C
Ch
Ch
Lo
W
R7
B
C
T
T
R8
L
Ch
Ch
P
W
Floor plan of “The Final Checkout”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window.
Rooms
Checkout — 6 tiles: Cash register, Chair, Carpet
Snacks — 10 tiles: Shelf
Deli Counter — 12 tiles: Lamp, Carpet, Box
Fruit Aisle — 12 tiles: Lamp, Box, Carpet
Stockroom — 6 tiles: Wooden crate
Frozen Aisle — 9 tiles: Fridge
Staff Room — 9 tiles: Chair, Locker, Table, Plant
Objects on the board
C Carpet (can be stood on)
Ch Chair (can be stood on)
B Box (blocks the tile)
L Lamp (blocks the tile)
F Fridge (blocks the tile)
Ca Cash register (blocks the tile)
W Wooden crate (blocks the tile)
S Shelf (blocks the tile)
T Table (blocks the tile)
Lo Locker (blocks the tile)
P Plant (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 white hair
She was beside a lamp
Bella — a woman with brown hair and glasses
She was in the same row as a locker
Carol — a woman with brown hair
She was not beside a chair
Dalia — a woman with brown hair and glasses
She was in the same column as a box and she was in the Fruit Aisle
Elsa — a woman with white hair
She was beside a shelf
Floyd — a man with a bald head, a beard and glasses
He was beside a cash register
Greta — a woman with white hair and glasses
She was beside a table and she was south of a carpet (R7/C3)
The victim, Vicky, 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:
Anna: 8 possible tiles
Bella: 5 possible tiles
Carol: 38 possible tiles
Dalia: 2 possible tiles
Elsa: 5 possible tiles
Floyd: 3 possible tiles
Greta: 2 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Bella: only row 6 possible – blocked for others.
Greta: only row 8 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.