“Murder in the OR” is a Murdoku case from the Hospital category: a board of 7×7, 6 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: 7×7, rated Hard, with 5 rooms. Every person — 7 in all — takes a row and a column of their own.
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
R1
S
R2
B
B
C
B
C
B
R3
L
B
B
R4
P
C
Pc
S
P
R5
C
C
R6
C
T
T
Ca
Ca
Ca
R7
P
C
C
C
C
Floor plan of “Murder in the OR”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window. A dashed edge marks a door.
Rooms
Operating Room — 11 tiles: Bed, Chair, PC
Ward — 14 tiles: Shelf, Chair, Bed, Locker, Plant
Emergency Room — 8 tiles: Chair, Carpet
Office — 8 tiles: Plant, Chair, Table
Cafeteria — 8 tiles: Shelf, Table, Chair
Objects on the board
C Chair (can be stood on)
B Bed (can be stood on)
Ca Carpet (can be stood on)
P Plant (blocks the tile)
S Shelf (blocks the tile)
T Table (blocks the tile)
L Locker (blocks the tile)
Pc PC (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
She was in the Cafeteria and she was in a corner
Bernd — a man with a bald head and a beard
He was in the same column as a PC
Cyrus — a man with a bald head and a beard
He was beside a plant
Dylan — a man with blond hair
He was beside a PC
Edison — a man with blond hair and glasses
He was beside a table
Floyd — a man with black hair
He was beside a carpet
The victim, Vanessa, is a woman. Nothing else about them is known, and no clue depends on it.
Clues About the Whole Scene
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:
Anna: 4 possible tiles
Bernd: 5 possible tiles
Cyrus: 5 possible tiles
Dylan: 2 possible tiles
Edison: 5 possible tiles
Floyd: 5 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Bernd: only column 3 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.