The case
Difficulty3 of 48×7 · 6 suspectsA Name Chiselled Out
Case file
The season's last lamp was still burning when the crew came up from the Valley Dig. never came up at all. The tomb has one way in, the register says who went down, and one of them shared a chamber with the body.
Why this one is tricky
An irregular tomb: holes in the grid and at least one empty row, so the floor plan itself is part of the puzzle, not just the furniture.
Two rules close every case. One person per row, and one per column. The victim takes the last remaining legal square, and whoever shares that room did it.
A square with furniture drawn on it is taken. Bare floor is somewhere a suspect can stand. Rooms are patches of matching floor.
Start from the strongest clues. Stack two clues about the same person before you place anyone. Switch on Pencil when two or three seats remain — that is not a guess.
Underlined words in the clue list — alone, beside, north of — explain themselves if you tap them.
Suspects
Tap a portrait for details. Tap below to select, then tap a square.
was in the Burial Hall
was a wicker chair
was in the Offering Room
was in the Painted Corridor
was on the same diagonal as
was in the Shaft Head
was in a wicker chair
was not a sarcophagus
was
Found in the room with the murderer.
Deduction board
0 of 7 placed.
Tools
What you are looking at
A square with furniture on it is taken. A square showing bare floor is somewhere a suspect can stand.
Rooms are the areas of matching floor, with a black line with a gold stroke tracing where one ends and the next begins.
Gaps in the grid are not part of the scene at all — nobody can be there and they break up rows and columns.
Small letters along the bottom of a square are your own pencil marks — a note, never a placement.
Clues
Every clue is load-bearing — drop one and the case stops being solvable.
- was in the Painted Corridor
- was in a wicker chair
- was a wicker chair
- was in the Offering Room
- was on the same diagonal as
- was in the Shaft Head
- was in the Burial Hall
- was not a sarcophagus
- was
Everyone stands in a different row and a different column. The victim was with the murderer, so whoever shares 's room did it.