“Among Old Friends” is a Murdoku case from the Campground 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 6 rooms. Every person — 8 in all — takes a row and a column of their own.
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8
R1
T
T
P
R2
T
T
P
P
R3
T
R4
P
P
G
Te
R5
T
P
C
P
Te
P
M
R6
Te
P
P
R7
G
Te
M
P
W
B
R8
P
Te
B
Floor plan of “Among Old Friends”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below.
Campfire (outdoors) — 8 tiles: Park bench, Campfire
Objects on the board
P Park bench (can be stood on)
T Tree (blocks the tile)
Te Tent (can be stood on)
B Boat (can be stood on)
G Grill (blocks the tile)
M Mud puddle (can be stood on)
C Campfire (blocks the tile)
W Water lily (can be stood on)
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 red hair
She was in row 1
Bella — a woman with red hair and glasses
She was beside a campfire. Another suspect was further east than Bella, beside the same campfire.
Cyrus — a man with brown hair and glasses
He was north-east of every grill, in a different room and he was beside a park bench
Dalia — a woman with red hair
She was alone with a female suspect
Edison — a man with grey hair
He was in the same room as Bella
Freya — a woman with white hair
In her room there was another suspect beside a boat
Greta — a woman with brown hair and glasses
She was beside a water lily
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 held exactly 1 person.
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: 6 possible tiles
Bella: 4 possible tiles
Cyrus: 2 possible tiles
Dalia: 55 possible tiles
Edison: 55 possible tiles
Freya: 10 possible tiles
Greta: 3 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Edison is in the same room as Bella – other rooms removed.
Bella must stand beside the same object (a campfire) as another person – impossible cells removed.
Anna: only row 1 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.