The case
Difficulty2 of 47×6 · 5 suspectsDust on the Offering Table
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
Five people and an empty row on a 7×6 tomb. A vacant line is a clue, not leftover space: someone is missing from a whole row of the offering rooms.
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 Storeroom
was an offering table
was in a corner of their area
was not a camp chair
was in the Shaft Head
was not an offering table
was in the 2nd column
was not a camp chair
Found in the room with the murderer.
Deduction board
0 of 6 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.
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 2nd column
- was in the Storeroom
- was not a camp chair
- was in the Shaft Head
- was an offering table
- was in a corner of their area
- was not a camp chair
- was not an offering table
Everyone stands in a different row and a different column. The victim was with the murderer, so whoever shares 's room did it.