“Who Was It?” is a Murdoku case from the House & Home 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 Medium, with 6 rooms. Every person — 7 in all — takes a row and a column of their own.
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
R1
B
S
B
S
Ch
R2
C
C
C
C
T+C
Ch
R3
P
P
C
C
Ch
R4
T
Ch+C
C
C
C
C
R5
C
S
S
R6
B
C
B
P
R7
B
S
B
P
Floor plan of “Who Was It?”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window. A dashed edge marks a door.
Rooms
Living Room — 9 tiles: Shelf, Chair, Carpet, Table
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 blond hair
She was beside a chair
Bella — a woman with brown hair and glasses
She was on a chair
Carol — a woman with blond hair
She was in the same column as a chair and she was in the same row as a shelf
Dylan — a man with black hair
He was in the Hallway
Edison — a man with black hair
He was in the Kids' Room 2
Freya — a woman with white hair and glasses
She was beside a bed
The victim, Veit, is a man. Nothing else about them is known, and no clue depends on it.
Clues About the Whole Scene
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:
Anna: 7 possible tiles
Bella: 4 possible tiles
Carol: 4 possible tiles
Dylan: 6 possible tiles
Edison: 4 possible tiles
Freya: 6 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Bella & Carol: only columns 2, 7 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.