“Murder à la Carte” is a Murdoku case from the Supermarket category: a board of 6×6, 5 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: 6×6, rated Easy, with 5 rooms. Every person — 6 in all — takes a row and a column of their own.
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
R1
S
S
S
Ca+S
F
F
R2
Ca
Ca
Ca
C
R3
Ch
Cs
C
C
F
R4
Ch
Cs
C
C
R5
B
C
C
C
C
W
R6
B
W
Floor plan of “Murder à la Carte”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window. A dashed edge marks a door.
Rooms
Checkout — 8 tiles: Chair, Cash register, Carpet
Deli Counter — 6 tiles: Box, Carpet
Fruit Aisle — 8 tiles: Carpet, Wooden crate
Chilled Aisle — 6 tiles: Fridge, Carpet
Parking Lot (outdoors) — 8 tiles: Street, Car
Objects on the board
C Carpet (can be stood on)
Ca Car (can be stood on)
S Street (can be stood on)
F Fridge (blocks the tile)
B Box (blocks the tile)
Cs Cash register (blocks the tile)
Ch Chair (can be stood on)
W Wooden crate (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.
Alex — a man with a bald head and a beard
He was in the Fruit Aisle and he was not beside a wooden crate
Bernd — a man with a bald head
He was in the Chilled Aisle
Cyrus — a man with a bald head, a beard and glasses
He was the only person on a street
Dalia — a woman with white hair and glasses
She was on a chair
Edison — a man with white hair and glasses
He was on a car
The victim, Victor, 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:
Alex: 2 possible tiles
Bernd: 3 possible tiles
Cyrus: 4 possible tiles
Dalia: 2 possible tiles
Edison: 4 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.