{"format":"murdoku-puzzle/1","id":"globe","version":1,"difficulty":"medium","level":5,"size":{"rows":8,"cols":8},"languages":["en","hu","de","fr","es","it","nl","pl","pt","ro","ca","cs","fi","vi","tr","el","ru","uk","ar","ko","ja","zh-Hans","zh-Hant"],"defaultLanguage":"en","title":"The Globe","tagline":"Bankside · 21 September 1599 · Caesar's ghost missed his cue","author":"mathace","concept":"Murdoku – Manuel Garand (murdoku.com); unofficial fan-made case","created":"2026-10-11","story":"Bankside, 21 September 1599. The company’s new playhouse – a round wooden O raised from the timbers of their old theatre – was packed for the performance of Julius Caesar. In the fourth act Caesar’s ghost should have appeared before Brutus, but nobody stepped out from behind the curtain: Val, who played Caesar, was found dead in the Tiring House. The company’s only prompt copy had vanished too.","rules":{"standard":["Every row and every column holds exactly one person. As soon as you place someone, cross out their whole row and column.","“Beside” = directly left, right, above or below, and in the same area. Squares with objects (the staircases, the coat rack, the curtain, the chest, the trapdoor, the pillars, the money boxes, the barrel and the orange basket) cannot be occupied; the benches, the throne and the stools can.","The murderer was alone with the victim: nobody else was in that area."],"special":[],"notes":[],"example":{}},"roleNames":{"company":"member of the company","house":"playhouse staff","audience":"spectator","victim":"victim"},"personGroups":[{"id":"company","name":"The Company","persons":["A","B","C","V"]},{"id":"house","name":"Playhouse Staff","persons":["D","E"]},{"id":"audience","name":"Audience","persons":["F","G"]}],"map":{"groups":[],"gaps":[],"areas":[{"id":"Tiring House","cells":[[1,2],[1,3],[1,4],[1,5],[1,6],[2,2],[2,3],[2,6],[2,7]],"fill":"#dcd4c6","pattern":"boards","labelAt":[1,2.5],"name":"Tiring House"},{"id":"Stage","cells":[[2,4],[2,5],[3,3],[3,4],[3,5],[3,6],[4,3],[4,4],[4,5],[4,6],[5,4],[5,5]],"fill":"#efe2cb","pattern":"planks","labelAt":[4,4],"name":"Stage"},{"id":"Yard","cells":[[3,2],[3,7],[4,2],[4,7],[5,2],[5,3],[5,6],[5,7],[6,2],[6,3],[6,4],[6,5],[6,6],[6,7],[7,2],[7,3],[7,4],[7,5],[7,6],[7,7]],"fill":"#e5d9bf","pattern":"marble","labelAt":[6,3],"name":"Yard"},{"id":"Lords' Room","cells":[[1,7],[1,8],[2,8],[3,8]],"fill":"#e6d0d6","pattern":"carpet","labelAt":[1,7],"name":"Lords' Room"},{"id":"Galleries","cells":[[1,1],[2,1],[3,1],[4,1],[4,8],[5,1],[5,8],[6,1],[6,8],[7,1],[7,8],[8,1],[8,2],[8,3],[8,4],[8,5],[8,6],[8,7],[8,8]],"fill":"#ead7bd","pattern":"planks","labelAt":[8,4],"name":"Galleries"}],"objectTypes":{"bench":{"occupiable":true,"name":"bench","icon":""},"stool":{"occupiable":true,"name":"stool","icon":""},"throne":{"occupiable":true,"name":"throne","icon":""},"barrel":{"occupiable":false,"name":"barrel","icon":""},"chest":{"occupiable":false,"name":"chest","icon":""},"curtain":{"occupiable":false,"name":"curtain","icon":""},"moneybox":{"occupiable":false,"name":"money box","icon":""},"oranges":{"occupiable":false,"name":"orange basket","icon":""},"pillar":{"occupiable":false,"name":"pillar","icon":""},"rack":{"occupiable":false,"name":"coat rack","icon":""},"stairs":{"occupiable":false,"name":"staircase","icon":""},"trapdoor":{"occupiable":false,"name":"trapdoor","icon":""}},"wallTypes":{},"objects":[{"cell":[1,1],"type":"stairs"},{"cell":[1,3],"type":"rack"},{"cell":[1,4],"type":"curtain"},{"cell":[1,5],"type":"chest"},{"cell":[1,6],"type":"stairs"},{"cell":[1,8],"type":"bench"},{"cell":[2,5],"type":"throne"},{"cell":[2,6],"type":"stool"},{"cell":[3,1],"type":"bench"},{"cell":[3,3],"type":"stool"},{"cell":[3,4],"type":"trapdoor"},{"cell":[3,5],"type":"stool"},{"cell":[4,3],"type":"pillar"},{"cell":[4,6],"type":"pillar"},{"cell":[4,8],"type":"moneybox"},{"cell":[5,2],"type":"barrel"},{"cell":[6,1],"type":"moneybox"},{"cell":[7,4],"type":"oranges"},{"cell":[8,3],"type":"bench"},{"cell":[8,6],"type":"stairs"},{"cell":[8,8],"type":"bench"}],"wallFeatures":[],"extras":[],"cellSize":46},"persons":[{"id":"A","name":"Abraham","gender":"M","role":"company","color":"#c62828","avatar":{"bg":"#7a2a2a","skin":"#f1c8a5","hair":"#3a2a1c","style":"short","shirt":"#f4efe6","beard":true,"robe":"#f4efe6"},"clue":"He was the only man beside a stool.","job":"player of Brutus","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"company","constraints":[{"type":"only_beside","obj":"stool","gender":"M"}]},{"id":"B","name":"Barnaby","gender":"M","role":"company","color":"#2e7d32","avatar":{"bg":"#35607a","skin":"#f6d8c0","hair":"#b7482c","style":"short","shirt":"#c62828"},"clue":"There was a spectator in his area. 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There was no man in her area.","job":"a merchant's wife","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"audience","constraints":[{"type":"only_on","obj":"bench"},{"type":"no_gender_in_area","gender":"M"}]},{"id":"G","name":"Gervase","gender":"M","role":"audience","color":"#ad1457","avatar":{"bg":"#ad1457","skin":"#f1c8a5","hair":"#2b1d14","style":"slick","shirt":"#2f4858","mustache":true,"mustacheColor":"#2b1d14","tophat":"#2b2b2b"},"clue":"He was the only man beside the trapdoor. He was beside a pillar.","job":"a young gallant","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"audience","constraints":[{"type":"only_beside","obj":"trapdoor","gender":"M"},{"type":"beside","obj":"pillar"}]},{"id":"V","name":"Val","gender":"M","role":"victim","color":"#1b1b1b","avatar":{"bg":"#5a2a2a","skin":"#f3d3b5","hair":"#d9d4cc","style":"short","shirt":"#f4efe6","robe":"#6a1b9a"},"clue":"The victim. He was found in the Tiring House, beside the coat rack – alone with the murderer.","job":"player of Julius Caesar","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"company","constraints":[{"type":"area","areas":["Tiring House"]},{"type":"beside","obj":"rack"}]}],"victim":"V","murderer":"C","solution":{"V":[1,2],"C":[2,6],"G":[3,3],"A":[4,5],"B":[5,4],"E":[6,7],"D":[7,1],"F":[8,8]},"walkthrough":[{"place":["G","B"],"cand":{"A":[[2,5],[2,7],[4,5]],"C":[[1,2],[1,7],[2,1],[2,2],[2,6],[2,8],[4,1],[6,8],[7,1],[7,8],[8,1],[8,2],[8,5],[8,7]],"D":[[1,2],[1,7],[2,1],[2,2],[2,5],[2,6],[2,7],[2,8],[4,1],[4,2],[4,5],[4,7],[6,2],[6,5],[6,6],[6,7],[6,8],[7,1],[7,2],[7,5],[7,6],[7,7],[7,8],[8,1],[8,2],[8,5],[8,7]],"E":[[1,2],[1,7],[2,1],[2,2],[2,6],[2,7],[2,8],[4,1],[4,2],[4,7],[6,2],[6,5],[6,6],[6,7],[6,8],[7,1],[7,2],[7,5],[7,6],[7,7],[7,8],[8,1],[8,2],[8,5],[8,7]],"F":[[1,8],[8,8]],"V":[[1,2]]},"text":"Gervase was the only man beside the trapdoor (R3C4), and he was beside a pillar. The squares beside the trapdoor are R2C4, R3C3, R3C5 and R4C4, and of these only R3C3 and R4C4 touch a pillar (the one at R4C3): Gervase is at R3C3 or R4C4. Barnaby had the curtain (R1C4) in his column, so he is in column 4: R2C4, R4C4 or R5C4 on the Stage, R6C4 in the Yard or R8C4 in the Galleries (R3C4 is the trapdoor, R7C4 the orange basket). He also said that there was a spectator in his area. Who can be the spectator in Barnaby’s area? There are only two spectators: Frances and Gervase. Frances said that there was no man in her area, and Barnaby – a boy player, but male – is a man: the two of them can never share an area. So it must be Gervase, and Gervase is on the Stage; that puts Barnaby on the Stage too, on R2C4, R4C4 or R5C4. Now Gervase cannot be at R4C4: that would make column 4 his, and Barnaby would have no square left in column 4. Gervase is at R3C3. Of Barnaby’s three squares R2C4 and R4C4 are both beside the trapdoor, and Gervase was the only man there: Barnaby is at R5C4."},{"place":["V","F"],"cand":{"A":[[2,5],[2,7],[4,5]],"C":[[2,1],[2,6],[4,1],[7,1]],"D":[[2,1],[2,5],[2,6],[2,7],[4,1],[4,5],[4,7],[6,5],[6,6],[6,7],[7,1],[7,5],[7,6],[7,7]],"E":[[2,1],[2,6],[2,7],[4,1],[4,7],[6,5],[6,6],[6,7],[7,1],[7,5],[7,6],[7,7]]},"text":"Val was found in the Tiring House beside the coat rack (R1C3). The squares beside the coat rack are R1C2 and R2C3; R2C3 is in column 3, which is Gervase’s now, so Val is at R1C2. Frances sat on a bench, and there was no man in her area. The benches are R1C8, R3C1, R8C3 and R8C8: R1C8 is in Val’s row, R3C1 in Gervase’s row and R8C3 in his column. Frances is at R8C8, in the Galleries. Rows 1, 3, 5 and 8 and columns 2, 3, 4 and 8 are used up; Abraham, Christopher, Damaris and Ellen share rows 2, 4, 6, 7 and columns 1, 5, 6, 7."},{"place":["C","A"],"cand":{"D":[[6,7],[7,1]],"E":[[6,7],[7,1]]},"text":"There is no man in Frances’s area, the Galleries: neither of the two men left, Abraham and Christopher, is there. Abraham was the only man beside a stool, so the squares beside a stool – R2C5 and R3C6 and R4C5 (beside the stool at R3C5) and R2C7 (beside the stool at R2C6) – are his alone. Where can Christopher be? Not in the Yard: the barrel (R5C2) is in the Yard, and it was not in his area. Not beside a stool. Rows 6 and 7 hold nothing else: R6C1 is a money box and the rest are Yard and Galleries squares. In row 4, R4C1 is in the Galleries, R4C7 in the Yard, R4C6 is a pillar and R4C5 is beside a stool. In row 2, R2C1 is in the Galleries, and R2C5 and R2C7 are beside stools. Only R2C6 is left: Christopher is at R2C6, on the stool in the Tiring House – in Val's area. Only the murderer was in the victim's area, so Christopher is the murderer, and nobody else is in the Tiring House. Abraham’s squares beside a stool: row 2 is Christopher’s and row 3 Gervase’s, so only R4C5 remains: Abraham is at R4C5, beside the stool at R3C5. Damaris and Ellen are left with rows 6 and 7 and columns 1 and 7. R6C1 is a money box, so one of them is at R6C7 and the other at R7C1."},{"place":["D","E"],"text":"Damaris said that there was exactly one other person in her area. R6C7 is in the Yard, and nobody else is in the Yard: Gervase, Barnaby and Abraham are on the Stage, Val and Christopher in the Tiring House, Frances in the Galleries. At R6C7 she would be alone. So Damaris is at R7C1, in the Galleries, where Frances is the one other person, and Ellen is at R6C7, in the Yard."},{"final":true,"text":"Case closed: Val was alone in the Tiring House with the book-keeper. Christopher is the murderer!"}],"solver":{"rules":[],"occupiable":["bench","stool","throne"]},"verification":{"tool":"tools/murdoku_solver.py","unique":true,"guessFree":true,"checked":"2026-10-11"},"score":4.1133}