“A Horse in the Hallway” is a Murdoku case from the House & Home 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 Medium, 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
Pu
T
F
F
R2
C
C
C
C
H
R3
T
Pu
T
L
Tr
L
R4
Pc
Tr
C
C
R5
S
C
G
G
R6
M
P
M
R7
P
P
O
St
O
R8
P
M
P
O
Floor plan of “A Horse in the Hallway”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below.
Rooms
Living Room — 10 tiles: PC, Trash can, Carpet, Shelf
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 beside a pig and she was in row 6
Bella — a woman with blond hair and glasses
She was beside a PC
Carol — a woman with black hair
She was in row 1
Dalia — a woman with white hair
She was on an oil slick and she was in column 8
Elsa — a woman with white hair
She was beside an oil slick
Floyd — a man with a bald head, a beard and glasses
He was in the Kitchen
Greta — a woman with brown hair and glasses
She was beside a trash can
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: 2 possible tiles
Bella: 2 possible tiles
Carol: 3 possible tiles
Dalia: a single tile — their own clue settles it
Elsa: 4 possible tiles
Floyd: 4 possible tiles
Greta: 3 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.