“Viola's Last Night” is a Murdoku case from the House & Home category: a board of 6×6, 5 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: 6×6, rated Medium, with 3 rooms. Every person — 6 in all — takes a row and a column of their own.
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
R1
C
Be
R2
T
Ch
P
Be
R3
C
Ch
B
R4
B
B
T
R5
S
C
Ta
R6
Ch
Floor plan of “Viola's Last Night”. Letters mark the objects; the key is below. A thick blue edge marks a window.
Rooms
Bedroom — 12 tiles: Carpet, TV, Box, Shrub, Chair
Study — 8 tiles: Bed, Chair, Plant
Garage — 16 tiles: Chair, Box, TV, Carpet, Table
Objects on the board
B Box (blocks the tile)
C Carpet (can be stood on)
Ch Chair (can be stood on)
Be Bed (can be stood on)
T TV (blocks the tile)
P Plant (blocks the tile)
S Shrub (blocks the tile)
Ta Table (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 blond hair and glasses
She was beside a shrub
Bella — a woman with blond hair and glasses
She was on a chair
Carol — a woman with brown hair
She was beside a table
Dalia — a woman with brown hair
She was beside a table and she was beside a wall
Elsa — a woman with black hair
She was in the same room as Dalia
The victim, Viola, 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: 3 possible tiles
Carol: 4 possible tiles
Dalia: 3 possible tiles
Elsa: 28 possible tiles
The first deductions after that, in the order the solver finds them:
Elsa is in the same room as Dalia – other rooms removed.
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.