“MicroMacro 2.5” is a Murdoku case from the House & Home category: a board of 5×5, 4 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: 5×5, rated Medium, with 4 rooms. Every person — 5 in all — takes a row and a column of their own.
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
R1
Ch+C
C
Ch
R2
T+C
C
T
T
R3
S
C
C
R4
C
C
C
R5
Ch
Ch
T
T
Floor plan of “MicroMacro 2.5”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window. A dashed edge marks a door.
Rooms
Living Room — 9 tiles: Shelf, Carpet, Chair
Kitchen — 6 tiles: Table
Game Room — 4 tiles: Chair, Carpet, Table
Study — 6 tiles: Chair, Table
Objects on the board
C Carpet (can be stood on)
T Table (blocks the tile)
Ch Chair (can be stood on)
S Shelf (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.
Apo — a man with black hair and a beard
He was west of all men
Bernd — a man with grey hair, a beard and glasses
He was south of Apo
Christian — a man with brown hair and glasses
He was east of every suspect who had glasses
Dariusz — a man with black hair and glasses
He was in the Study and he was alone with a suspect who had brown hair
The victim, Veronika, 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:
Apo: 19 possible tiles
Bernd: 19 possible tiles
Christian: 19 possible tiles
Dariusz: 4 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Apo is west of someone with a matching trait – impossible cells removed.
Bernd is south of Apo – impossible cells removed.
Christian is east of someone with a matching trait – 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.