“Last Rites” is a Murdoku case from the Auto shop 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 4 rooms. Every person — 7 in all — takes a row and a column of their own.
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
R1
Ch
W
R2
T
P
W
R3
Ca
O
R4
Ca
C
R5
O
C
C
C
R6
C
O
Ca
Ca
R7
C
Ch
T
Floor plan of “Last Rites”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below.
Rooms
Workshop (outdoors) — 25 tiles: Oil slick, Car
Office — 10 tiles: Chair, Table, PC, Carpet
Parts Store — 10 tiles: Wooden crate
Reception — 4 tiles: Carpet, Chair, Table
Objects on the board
C Car (can be stood on)
Ca Carpet (can be stood on)
O Oil slick (can be stood on)
Ch Chair (can be stood on)
W Wooden crate (blocks the tile)
T Table (blocks the tile)
P 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.
Alex — a man with black hair
In his room there was another suspect who had brown hair in a corner
Bella — a woman with blond hair
She was in column 2
Cyrus — a man with white hair
He was in the Reception and he was beside a table
Dalia — a woman with brown hair and glasses
She was beside a car
Edison — a man with black hair
In his room there was another male suspect on a car
Floyd — a man with brown hair
He was alone in the Parts Store and he was in a corner
The victim, Valentin, is a man. Nothing else about them is known, and no clue depends on it.
Clues About the Whole Scene
Exactly 1 person was on a carpet.
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:
Alex: 44 possible tiles
Bella: 6 possible tiles
Cyrus: 2 possible tiles
Dalia: 12 possible tiles
Edison: 25 possible tiles
Floyd: 5 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Bella: only column 2 possible – blocked for others.
Cyrus can only be in row 6 or column 6; so their intersection R6/C6 can hold no one (not a cell for Cyrus, blocked for everyone else) – removed.
Someone matching had to be in a corner in Alex's room; the Office can't, so not there.
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.