“Death in Cell 2” is a Murdoku case from the Precinct & Office 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
Ca
C
C
To
R2
C
Ca
T
T
B
B
R3
T
Ca
C
T
B
B
R4
C
Ca
C
To
R5
C
T
T
C
W
R6
C
T
C
T
W
Floor plan of “Death in Cell 2”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window.
Rooms
Open Office — 12 tiles: Carpet, Chair, Table
Interrogation room — 6 tiles: Chair, Table
Holding cell 1 — 6 tiles: Chair, Toilet, Table, Bed
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 blond hair and glasses
She was beside a carpet and she was in row 3
Bella — a woman with white hair and glasses
She was in row 6
Cyrus — a man with white hair, a beard and glasses
He was alone in the Interrogation room
Dylan — a man with a bald head and glasses
He was in the Holding cell 2
Elsa — a woman with brown hair and glasses
She was the only person on a bed
The victim, Vlad, is a man. Nothing else about them is known, and no clue depends on it.
Clues About the Whole Scene
No room was empty.
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: a single tile — their own clue settles it
Bella: 3 possible tiles
Cyrus: 4 possible tiles
Dylan: 5 possible tiles
Elsa: 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.