“Mörderisches Obst” 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 Hard, 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
Pl
H
R2
S
Co
Ch
W
R3
S
W
R4
Ch
C
C
R5
Pi
Co
T
R6
C
T
R7
C
Ca
Ca
C
C
P
R8
C
C
T
Floor plan of “Mörderisches Obst”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below.
Rooms
Checkout — 10 tiles: Chair, Cash register
Drinks — 8 tiles: Wooden crate
Deli Counter — 9 tiles: Horse, Cow, Chicken
Fruit Aisle — 9 tiles: Plant, Shelf
Bakery — 12 tiles: Chair, Table, PC
Cheese Counter — 10 tiles: Chair, Cow, Table
Frozen Aisle — 6 tiles: Chicken, Pig
Objects on the board
C Chair (can be stood on)
T Table (blocks the tile)
Ca Cash register (blocks the tile)
Ch Chicken (blocks the tile)
Co Cow (blocks the tile)
W Wooden crate (blocks the tile)
S Shelf (blocks the tile)
H Horse (can be stood on)
P PC (blocks the tile)
Pi Pig (blocks the tile)
Pl 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 brown hair and glasses
She was in the same column as a plant and she was alone with a female suspect
Bella — a woman with white hair and glasses
She was beside a cash register
Cyrus — a man with black hair, a beard and glasses
He was beside a pig
Dylan — a man with black hair and glasses
He was alone in a room with a wooden crate
Edison — a man with a bald head
He was beside a horse
Floyd — a man with blond hair and a beard
He was beside a chair and he was not on a chair
Grant — a man with a bald head
He was in the same column as a horse
The victim, Vesna, 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: 5 possible tiles
Bella: 5 possible tiles
Cyrus: 3 possible tiles
Dylan: 6 possible tiles
Edison: 3 possible tiles
Floyd: 7 possible tiles
Grant: 7 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Anna: only column 1 possible – blocked for others.
Cyrus: only column 2 possible – blocked for others.
Grant: only column 5 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.