“No Honor Among Killers” 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 6 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
Ch
C
C
R2
T
T
B
B
P
R3
P
R4
R5
P
P
T
P
C
T
P
R6
Tv
C
R7
C
T
R8
Ch
T
Ch
Ch
R9
T
Tv
T
Floor plan of “No Honor Among Killers”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window.
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 black hair and a beard
He was beside a chair and he was west of every TV
Bernd — a man with blond hair
He was on a carpet and he was alone in the room
Cyrus — a man with a bald head, a beard and glasses
He was in column 2
Dylan — a man with blond hair
He was beside a table and In his room there was another suspect beside a TV
Edison — a man with brown hair
He was south of every suspect who had a bald head
Freya — a woman with brown hair and glasses
She was in column 7
Greta — a woman with blond hair
She was south of Edison
Hugh — a man with brown hair, a beard and glasses
He was in a room with at least 2 other men
The victim, Vidal, is a man. Nothing else about them is known, and no clue depends on it.
Clues About the Whole Scene
No room was empty.
Exactly 1 person was on a bed.
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: 3 possible tiles
Bernd: 5 possible tiles
Cyrus: 6 possible tiles
Dylan: 13 possible tiles
Edison: 65 possible tiles
Freya: 8 possible tiles
Greta: 65 possible tiles
Hugh: 65 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Edison is south of someone with a matching trait – impossible cells removed.
Greta is south of Edison – impossible cells removed.
Cyrus: only column 2 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.