Whodunnit? 60 Murder Mystery Logic Puzzles: Grade: EXPERT
Book 14 of the Murder Mystery Mayhem Series
Theme 7: This theme is Sudoku grid style with graphical representation of Suspects and objects. The puzzle layouts are divided into rooms with objects which suspects can and cannot be placed on. When a suspect is placed all the grids in a horizontal and vertical directions are crossed off the puzzle grid. To solve the puzzle, you need to logically determine the order to solve the clues in to locate where the victim is to be placed on the final vacant square with a suspect in that room, and the suspect in the room is the Murderer.
Grid sizes can be varied from 6x6 to 16x16, along with number of suspects to logically deduce from the clues who is the murderer.
The clues are harder. The possibilities are tighter. And one suspect is still a murderer.
Welcome to the EXPERT level of WHODUNNIT? — 60 illustrated murder mystery logic puzzles created for solvers who are ready to put their deduction skills under serious pressure.
Every case drops you into a new crime scene with a victim, a group of suspects, a detailed floor plan and a collection of clues. Your job sounds simple:
Place every suspect. Eliminate every impossible location. Find the one person left alone with the victim.
But at Expert level, the obvious answer rarely comes first.
You will need to combine room restrictions, rows and columns, objects, directional relationships, conditional clues and positional information. Like Sudoku, no two suspects may occupy the same row or column, but here the numbers have been replaced by people, rooms, furniture and a murder waiting to be solved.
Inside you'll find:
• 60 EXPERT murder mystery logic puzzles
• Full-colour illustrated crime scenes and floor plans
• Sudoku style row and column deduction
• Multi-step clues that become useful as the investigation develops
• Directional, diagonal, conditional and positional reasoning
• Rooms, furniture and objects that restrict where suspects can stand
• A fully worked example showing the solving method step by step
• Object guides to help identify usable and blocked locations
• Complete solutions so you can check every investigation
The book begins with a worked Expert case that demonstrates how one deduction changes the next, gradually reducing the grid until the victim and murderer can finally be isolated.
And no two investigations need feel the same. Follow suspects through farms and barns, museums and galleries, wedding venues, ships, trains, islands, houses and other distinctive locations—each introducing a new arrangement of rooms, objects and possibilities to unravel.
This is not the place to learn basic deduction.
Rated EXPERT, this volume is for experienced logic-puzzle solvers who enjoy working several deductions ahead, revisiting earlier clues and finding the single placement that makes everything else fall into place.
It is Book 14 in the Murder Mystery Mayhem series.
Read the clues. Study the scene. Eliminate the impossible.
Then answer the question every case leaves behind…
WHODUNNIT?
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