“La Familia” is a Murdoku case from the House & Home 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 7 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
T
B
T
P
To
C
T
R2
B
T
R3
C
C
P
R4
T
T
B
S
R5
P
C
C
T
B
S
R6
R7
C
R8
S
C
C
S
R9
S
Tv
T
P
C
S
Floor plan of “La Familia”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window. A dashed edge marks a door.
Rooms
Bathroom — 8 tiles: Plant, Toilet, Chair, Table
Kitchen — 4 tiles: Table
Living Room — 21 tiles: Chair, Shelf, TV, Table, Plant
Guest Room — 12 tiles: Table, Bed
Bedroom — 14 tiles: Plant, Bed, Shelf
Dining Room — 16 tiles: Chair, Table, Plant
Storeroom — 6 tiles: Shelf
Objects on the board
C Chair (can be stood on)
T Table (blocks the tile)
S Shelf (blocks the tile)
B Bed (can be stood on)
P Plant (blocks the tile)
To Toilet (can be stood on)
Tv TV (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 brown hair and glasses
She was in column 9
Bella — a woman with brown hair and glasses
She was on a bed
Carol — a woman with white hair
She was in the same room as Hugh
Dalia — a woman with white hair
She was alone with a suspect who had a beard and she was beside a window
Elsa — a woman with brown hair
She was beside a table. Bella was beside the same table.
Floyd — a man with white hair, a beard and glasses
He was on a chair and he was in the Dining Room
Grant — a man with brown hair
He was beside a door
Hugh — a man with brown hair and glasses
He was on a bed and he was alone with a suspect who had white hair
The victim, Vanessa, is a woman. 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: 3 possible tiles
Bella: 4 possible tiles
Carol: 62 possible tiles
Dalia: 10 possible tiles
Elsa: 16 possible tiles
Floyd: 4 possible tiles
Grant: 15 possible tiles
Hugh: 4 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Carol is in the same room as Hugh – other rooms removed.
Elsa must stand beside the same object (a table) as another person – impossible cells removed.
Bella must stand beside the same object (a table) as another person – impossible cells removed.
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.