Volle Bettenauslastung

“Volle Bettenauslastung” is a Murdoku case from the Hospital 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 Easy, 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	Ch	Ch	Lo	P	B	B	P	B
R2	Ch	C	C	S		C	C	B
R3	Ch	C		L			C
R4	L	C	C		B	T	B	T
R5		C	S		B	Pc	B	S
R6	C	C	S		S	S
R7	T	T					Ca	T
R8	Ch	Ch	W		W		Ch	Ch

Floor plan of “Volle Bettenauslastung”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window. A dashed edge marks a door.

Rooms

Reception — 12 tiles: Lamp, Carpet, Shelf, Table, Chair
Waiting Room — 9 tiles: Chair, Locker, Carpet
Operating Room — 9 tiles: Lamp, Bed, Table, PC
Ward — 16 tiles: Plant, Bed, Shelf, Carpet, Table
Lab — 9 tiles: Shelf, Wooden crate
Pharmacy — 9 tiles: Shelf, Cash register, Table, Chair

Objects on the board

C Carpet (can be stood on)
B Bed (can be stood on)
Ch Chair (can be stood on)
S Shelf (blocks the tile)
T Table (blocks the tile)
W Wooden crate (blocks the tile)
L Lamp (blocks the tile)
P Plant (blocks the tile)
Ca Cash register (blocks the tile)
Lo 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 and glasses

She was beside a wooden crate

Bernd — a man with white hair

He was beside a PC

Cyrus — a man with a bald head and glasses

He was on a chair

Dylan — a man with a bald head

He was on a bed

Edison — a man with white hair and a beard

He was beside a chair and he was not on a chair

Floyd — a man with blond hair and a beard

He was in the Operating Room and he was beside a table

Grant — a man with black hair

He was beside a plant

The victim, Vicky, is a woman. Nothing else about them is known, and no clue depends on it.

Clues About the Whole Scene

Exactly 3 people were on a bed.

How Hard It Really Is

Deduction steps from the first clue to the verdict: 16
Steps before anyone can be placed for certain: 7

How to Start — Without Spoilers

Before anything else, count where each suspect could be if you only read their own clues:

Anna: 3 possible tiles
Bernd: a single tile — their own clue settles it
Cyrus: 8 possible tiles
Dylan: 8 possible tiles
Edison: 3 possible tiles
Floyd: 2 possible tiles
Grant: 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.