The case
Difficulty3 of 48×8 · 7 suspectsFrost on the Inside
Case file
The relief flight is six weeks out and the sea ice is closed, so the roster at Vestfjell Station is the whole world right now. was found after the wind dropped. Nobody could leave, and one of them shared a room with the body.
Why this one is tricky
Seven of the roster on an 8×8 station. No glyphs this time — the frost case is crowding and longer chains, not marked hatches.
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 on the same diagonal as
was in a sleeping bag
was in a sleeping bag
was on the same diagonal as
was
was in the Boot Room
was with
was on the same diagonal as
was not a generator
No clue names them.
was in the Generator Bay
was in a corner of their area
Found in the room with the murderer.
Deduction board
0 of 8 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
- was with
- was on the same diagonal as
- was on the same diagonal as
- was in a sleeping bag
- was not a generator
- was in the Generator Bay
- was in a corner of their area
- was in a sleeping bag
- was in the Boot Room
- was on the same diagonal as
Everyone stands in a different row and a different column. The victim was with the murderer, so whoever shares 's room did it.