The case
Difficulty4 of 49×8 · 7 suspectsThe Weight That Was Wrong
Case file
The lanterns go out at three and the gates are chained by half past. was found in the Lantern Market when the sweepers came through. The gate ledger lists everyone still inside, one to a stall — and one of them was standing right there.
Why this one is tricky
A 9×8 market with holes and empty rows: the largest irregular floor plan, seven vendors, and still no leftover guessing.
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 not in a cane chair
was not a scale table
was on the same diagonal as
was in the Noodle Bar
was
was in a rattan chair
was on the same diagonal as
was not a scale table
was not in a cane chair
was in the Spice Row
was a noodle counter
was not a noodle counter
was in the Shrine Gate
was in the Cart Lane
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.
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 not in a cane chair
- was
- was not a scale table
- was in a rattan chair
- was on the same diagonal as
- was in the Noodle Bar
- was not a noodle counter
- was not a scale table
- was not in a cane chair
- was a noodle counter
- was in the Cart Lane
- was in the Spice Row
- was on the same diagonal as
- was in the Shrine Gate
Everyone stands in a different row and a different column. The victim was with the murderer, so whoever shares 's room did it.