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Every card shows the person’s age – the seats tell the rest.","rules":{"standard":["Every <b>row</b> and every <b>column</b> holds exactly <b>one person</b>. As soon as you place someone, cross out their whole row and column.","<b>“Beside”</b> = directly left, right, above or below, and <b>in the same area</b>. Squares with objects (the coat rack, the mirror, the bookcases, the desk, the globe, the oven, the sink, the counter, the paintings, the statue, the tile stove, the tables, the clock, the cabinets, the folding screen, the gramophone, the candelabra, the piano, the harp, the music stand, the dollhouse, the teddy bear, the palms and the fountain) cannot be occupied; the armchair, the sofa, the chairs, the benches, the poufs and the lounger can. An armchair is not a chair. Two objects are the same kind of thing only when they have the same picture."],"special":["<b>In every area where anyone was, exactly one person was sitting: the eldest of those there.</b>"],"notes":["<i>“sitting”</i> = was on the armchair, the sofa, a chair, a bench, a pouf or the lounger. 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victim.</b> She was found in the <b>Salon</b>, in the <b>armchair</b> – alone with the murderer.","job":"the grandmother","avatarSvg":"<svg viewBox=\"0 0 80 80\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Vilhelmina\"><rect width=\"80\" height=\"80\" fill=\"#2a2a3a\"/><path d=\"M10 80 Q12 56 40 54 Q68 56 70 80 Z\" fill=\"#1b1b1b\"/><path d=\"M31 58 Q40 66 49 58\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#f3e2b3\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-dasharray=\"2 2\"/><rect x=\"34\" y=\"44\" width=\"12\" height=\"13\" fill=\"#f3d3b5\"/><ellipse cx=\"40\" cy=\"34\" rx=\"14\" ry=\"16\" fill=\"#f3d3b5\"/><circle cx=\"40\" cy=\"15\" r=\"7\" fill=\"#e8e4dc\"/><path d=\"M26 32 Q26 16 40 16 Q54 16 54 32 Q50 24 40 24 Q30 24 26 32 Z\" fill=\"#e8e4dc\"/><circle cx=\"34\" cy=\"35\" r=\"1.6\" fill=\"#2b2b2b\"/><circle cx=\"46\" cy=\"35\" r=\"1.6\" fill=\"#2b2b2b\"/><path d=\"M36 43 Q40 46 44 43\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#a5735a\" stroke-width=\"1.4\"/><circle cx=\"34\" cy=\"35\" r=\"5\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#2b2b2b\" stroke-width=\"1.4\"/><circle cx=\"46\" cy=\"35\" r=\"5\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#2b2b2b\" stroke-width=\"1.4\"/><line x1=\"39\" y1=\"35\" x2=\"41\" y2=\"35\" stroke=\"#2b2b2b\" stroke-width=\"1.4\"/><path d=\"M12 12 L68 68 M68 12 L12 68\" stroke=\"#e0362e\" stroke-width=\"5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" opacity=\".9\"/></svg>","solverRole":"family","constraints":[{"type":"area","areas":["Salon"]},{"type":"on","obj":"armchair"}]}],"victim":"V","murderer":"B","solution":{"A":[7,11],"B":[5,3],"C":[3,2],"D":[6,8],"E":[2,4],"F":[1,5],"G":[9,12],"H":[12,9],"I":[10,10],"J":[4,6],"K":[11,7],"V":[8,1]},"walkthrough":[{"cand":{"I":[[10,10],[12,6]],"K":[[11,2],[11,3],[11,5],[11,7],[11,8],[11,10],[11,11],[11,12]],"G":[[9,11],[9,12]],"H":[[10,5],[10,11],[12,2],[12,4],[12,9]]},"text":"Start in the Winter Garden. Irma had the fountain in her area, Gabriel was with Irma, Kristof had the fountain in his row – row 11, which lies entirely in the Winter Garden – and Herman was beside a palm, and every palm stands in the Winter Garden. So Gabriel, Herman, Irma and Kristof were all in the Winter Garden, whose squares lie in rows 9–12: those four rows are theirs, and nobody else was in the Winter Garden. The Music Room and the Nursery reach only rows 8–10, and row 8 is Vilhelmina’s: both rooms were empty. By the rule the eldest of the four, Irma (62), was the one sitting – on the lounger R10C10 or the bench R12C6 – and the three men were standing: Kristof in row 11, Herman beside a palm, Gabriel in row 9 (R9C11 or R9C12: both squares are corners of the Winter Garden, Herman was not in a corner, and Irma sat in row 10 or 12). Vilhelmina sat in the armchair, so the murderer stood beside her in the Salon and is younger than 71: not Eduard (78) or Florentina (74), not one of the Winter Garden men, and not Andreas, who was in the Dining Room – <b>Babette, Christine, Daniel or Johanna</b>."},{"place":["E","F"],"cand":{"H":[[10,11],[12,2],[12,9]],"K":[[11,2],[11,3],[11,7],[11,8],[11,10],[11,11],[11,12]],"I":[[10,10],[12,6]],"G":[[9,11],[9,12]]},"text":"Eduard (78) is the oldest of all, so wherever he was, he was sitting. A woman was beside the same bookcase as him: the bookcases are in the Library (R1C4, R1C7), and the only seat beside one is the chair R2C4 – <b>Eduard is at R2C4</b>, and the woman is at R1C5, the other square beside that bookcase. Babette cannot be there (no other area touches R1C5), Johanna cannot (with Florentina she would have two other people in her area), Christine was not in the Library: <b>Florentina is at R1C5</b>. Rows 1 and 2 are now taken. The Kitchen has only R3C11 left, where somebody would be standing with nobody to sit – the Kitchen was empty. In the Hall only the bench R3C2 is left (R3C1 is Vilhelmina’s column): at most one person was there, sitting."},{"cand":{"A":[[6,12],[7,11]],"G":[[9,11],[9,12]],"H":[[10,11],[12,2],[12,9]],"I":[[10,10],[12,6]],"K":[[11,2],[11,3],[11,7],[11,8],[11,10],[11,11],[11,12]]},"text":"Andreas (49) was in the Dining Room, and everyone who could still be there with him – Babette, Christine, Daniel, Johanna – is younger, so he was the one sitting: on a chair at R5C10, R6C12 or R7C11. Suppose <b>R5C10</b>. Column 10 is his, so Irma sits on the bench R12C6, Herman leaves row 12 for R10C11, and the man exactly one row north of Andreas, in row 4, can only be Daniel (Eduard is in row 2, the other men in rows 9–12). Daniel needed a chair in his column and was not sitting: in row 4 that leaves only R4C11 – Herman’s column. Contradiction: Andreas is at <b>R6C12 or R7C11</b>."},{"place":["A","I","G"],"cand":{"B":[[3,7],[4,2],[5,3]],"D":[[6,3],[6,6],[6,8]],"H":[[12,2],[12,9]],"K":[[11,2],[11,3],[11,7],[11,8]]},"text":"Babette (46) was standing: of the people older than her only Andreas (Dining Room), Eduard (Library) and Vilhelmina (Salon) could be sitting in a room with her, and the seats where she could sit alone – the Hall bench R3C2, the Corridor chair R3C10 – are corners. Not in a corner and right beside an empty area, she has six squares: R3C7 (Library, beside the Smoking Room), R4C2 (Salon, below the Hall), R5C3 and R6C3 (Salon, beside the Corridor), R4C11 (Dining Room, below the Kitchen) and R6C10 (Dining Room, beside the Corridor). Now suppose <b>Andreas at R6C12</b>. Column 12 is his, so Gabriel is at R9C11, Herman leaves column 11 for row 12, and Irma sits on the lounger R10C10. The man one row north of Andreas, in row 5, is Daniel: R5C3 (Salon) or R5C8 (Smoking Room). Babette has two squares left, R3C7 or R4C2 (R4C11 is Gabriel’s column, R5C3 Daniel’s row, R6C3 and R6C10 Andreas’s row). At R3C7 the Smoking Room is empty, so Daniel is at R5C3 with Vilhelmina – and Johanna has nowhere to go: the Salon would hold three, the poufs stand in an empty room, nobody can sit in the Corridor (its chair R3C10 is in Babette’s row), and R4C11, R7C10 and R7C12 are in taken columns. At R4C2 the Hall is empty and Babette is with Vilhelmina, so Daniel stands at R5C8 in the Smoking Room – but the poufs R4C6 and R5C7 are in Babette’s and Daniel’s rows, nobody older can sit there. Both fail: <b>Andreas is at R7C11</b>. Column 11 is his, so Herman is in row 12 (R12C2 or R12C9), <b>Irma sits on the lounger R10C10</b> and <b>Gabriel is at R9C12</b>. The man in row 6 is Daniel: R6C3, R6C6 or R6C8."},{"place":["B"],"cand":{"D":[[6,6],[6,8]],"J":[[4,2],[4,6]],"H":[[12,2],[12,9]],"K":[[11,2],[11,7],[11,8]]},"text":"Babette: R3C7, R4C2 or R5C3 (R4C11 is Andreas’s column, R6C3 and R6C10 are Daniel’s row). Suppose <b>R3C7</b>: the Smoking Room is empty, Daniel is at R6C3 with Vilhelmina, and Johanna – in row 4 or 5 – has no square: the Salon would hold three, the poufs stand in an empty room, R4C9 would need the Corridor’s chair R3C10 occupied in Babette’s row, R5C8 is in the empty Smoking Room, R4C11 is Andreas’s and R5C12 Gabriel’s column. Suppose <b>R4C2</b>: the Hall is empty and Babette is the murderer; Daniel stands in the Smoking Room (R6C6 or R6C8), so somebody older sits on a pouf – R4C6 is in Babette’s row, so on R5C7: Christine or Johanna. The other one of them is in row 3: not on the Hall bench (the Hall is empty), not at R3C7 (Christine was not in the Library, Johanna would be the third person there), not on the Corridor chair R3C10 (Irma’s column). Contradiction. So <b>Babette is at R5C3</b>, standing in the Salon with Vilhelmina: <b>Babette is the murderer</b>, and the Corridor beside her was empty."},{"place":["J","C","D"],"cand":{"K":[[11,7]],"H":[[12,9]]},"text":"Daniel stood in row 6, but not in the Salon (Vilhelmina and Babette fill it): at R6C6 or R6C8 in the Smoking Room, so somebody older sat on a pouf there – R5C7 is in Babette’s row, so on R4C6. Johanna cannot be in row 3 (alone on the Hall bench she would have nobody with her, in the Library she would be the third person, R3C10 is Irma’s column), so <b>Johanna sits on the pouf R4C6</b>, with Daniel as the one other person in her area, and <b>Christine is on the Hall bench R3C2</b>, alone, with a chair in her row. Column 6 is Johanna’s: <b>Daniel is at R6C8</b>, with a chair in his column (R9C8)."},{"place":["K","H"],"text":"Kristof is in row 11, and columns 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11 and 12 are taken: <b>Kristof is at R11C7</b>, beside the palm R11C6. Herman: R12C2 is Christine’s column, so he is at <b>R12C9</b>, beside the palm R11C9 and not in a corner. Everyone is placed, and in every occupied room exactly one person sits and is the eldest there – Vilhelmina in the Salon, Eduard in the Library, Johanna in the Smoking Room, Andreas alone in the Dining Room, Christine alone in the Hall, Irma in the Winter Garden."},{"final":true,"text":"Vilhelmina was found in the armchair in the Salon, and the only other person there was Babette, standing at R5C3: <b>Babette is the murderer!</b>"}],"solver":{"rules":[{"type":"eldest_sits","seats":["armchair","sofa","chair","bench","pouf","lounger"]}],"occupiable":["armchair","sofa","chair","bench","pouf","lounger"]},"verification":{"tool":"tools/murdoku_solver.py","unique":true,"guessFree":true,"checked":"2026-10-11"},"score":168.07}