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The box tells how many handshakes there were – the rest is up to the statements.","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 beehive, the well, the snowman, the fireworks, the wardrobe, the chest, the candelabras, the bookcases, the stepladder, the boots, the plant, the lantern, the coat rack, the desk, the safe, the tile stove, the Christmas tree, the piano, the grandfather clock, the champagne, the tables, the cabinet, the shelf, the barrel, the crate, the stove, the sink, the counter and the firewood) cannot be occupied; the armchairs, the chairs, the benches, the sofa and the stool can. An armchair is not a chair. Two objects are the same kind of thing only when they have the same picture. 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She and <b>Brooke</b> were on the <b>same diagonal</b>.","job":"the pharmacist","avatarSvg":"<svg viewBox=\"0 0 80 80\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Karina\"><rect width=\"80\" height=\"80\" fill=\"#4a6a6a\"/><path d=\"M22 40 Q22 14 40 14 Q58 14 58 40 L58 58 L22 58 Z\" fill=\"#1c1a1a\"/><path d=\"M10 80 Q12 56 40 54 Q68 56 70 80 Z\" fill=\"#e8e8e8\"/><rect x=\"34\" y=\"44\" width=\"12\" height=\"13\" fill=\"#f3d3b5\"/><ellipse cx=\"40\" cy=\"34\" rx=\"14\" ry=\"16\" fill=\"#f3d3b5\"/><path d=\"M26 36 Q26 16 40 16 Q54 16 54 36 Q52 24 40 24 Q28 24 26 36 Z\" fill=\"#1c1a1a\"/><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=\"26\" cy=\"41\" r=\"1.8\" fill=\"#f0c95a\"/><circle cx=\"54\" cy=\"41\" r=\"1.8\" fill=\"#f0c95a\"/></svg>","solverRole":"guest","constraints":[{"type":"only_beside","obj":"table","gender":"F"},{"type":"same_diagonal","q":"B"}]},{"id":"V","name":"Vic","gender":"M","role":"victim","color":"#1b1b1b","avatar":{"bg":"#2a2a3a","skin":"#efc7a3","hair":"#e8e4dc","style":"bald","shirt":"#1b1b1b","mustache":true,"mustacheColor":"#e8e4dc"},"clue":"<b>The victim.</b> He was found in the <b>Study</b>, beside the <b>desk</b> – alone with the murderer.","job":"the churchwarden","avatarSvg":"<svg viewBox=\"0 0 80 80\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Vic\"><rect width=\"80\" height=\"80\" fill=\"#2a2a3a\"/><path d=\"M10 80 Q12 56 40 54 Q68 56 70 80 Z\" fill=\"#1b1b1b\"/><rect x=\"34\" y=\"44\" width=\"12\" height=\"13\" fill=\"#efc7a3\"/><ellipse cx=\"40\" cy=\"34\" rx=\"14\" ry=\"16\" fill=\"#efc7a3\"/><path d=\"M26 30 Q26 22 30 20 L30 34 Q26 34 26 30 Z\" fill=\"#e8e4dc\"/><path d=\"M54 30 Q54 22 50 20 L50 34 Q54 34 54 30 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\"/><path d=\"M33 41 Q40 37 47 41 Q40 43 33 41 Z\" fill=\"#e8e4dc\"/><path d=\"M12 12 L68 68 M68 12 L12 68\" stroke=\"#e0362e\" stroke-width=\"5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" opacity=\".9\"/></svg>","solverRole":"guest","constraints":[{"type":"area","areas":["Study"]},{"type":"beside","obj":"desk"}]}],"victim":"V","murderer":"H","solution":{"C":[1,6],"G":[2,3],"V":[3,11],"A":[4,7],"H":[5,12],"K":[6,10],"F":[7,8],"I":[8,9],"D":[9,4],"J":[10,1],"B":[11,5],"E":[12,2]},"walkthrough":[{"place":["E"],"cand":{"J":[[2,1],[4,1],[5,1],[7,1],[10,1],[11,1]]},"text":"Julian had the lantern in his column: it stands at R8C1, so <b>Julian is in column 1</b>, and nobody else is. Elizabeth was beside the stool R11C2 that nobody was sitting on. Of its neighbours R11C1 is in column 1, and R10C2 and R11C3 are beside the kitchen table R10C3 – but Karina was the only woman beside a table. <b>Elizabeth is at R12C2</b>."},{"place":["K"],"cand":{"B":[[10,6],[11,5]],"J":[[2,1],[4,1],[5,1],[7,1],[10,1],[11,1]]},"text":"Farrel had a woman sitting in a chair in his area. The only chairs are R6C10, R7C12 and R8C11 in the Dining Room, and each of them is beside the dining table – so that woman was beside a table, and she can only be Karina. Karina sits on one of these chairs, and she and Brooke were on the same diagonal. Brooke was in the Kitchen: somebody else in her area was beside the sink, and the sink is in the Kitchen. Only the diagonal of R6C10 reaches the Kitchen (R10C6, R11C5): <b>Karina is at R6C10</b>, Brooke at R10C6 or R11C5, and Farrel is in the Dining Room."},{"cand":{"D":[[9,4],[10,6],[11,5],[11,7]],"F":[[7,8],[7,9],[8,8],[8,9]],"B":[[10,6],[11,5]],"J":[[2,1],[4,1],[5,1],[7,1],[10,1],[11,1]]},"text":"Now the handshakes. The Study holds exactly two people, Vic and the murderer. Its squares lie in columns 10–12, and column 10 is Karina’s, so the two of them take columns 11 and 12 – <b>nobody else is in column 11 or 12</b>. Besides Karina the Dining Room then keeps only R7C8, R7C9, R8C8 and R8C9: one person in row 7 and one in row 8 at most, so the Dining Room holds at most three. The Kitchen holds at least three: Brooke, Elizabeth and the person beside the sink – R9C2 is Elizabeth’s column, so <b>somebody is at R9C4</b>. Daphne had exactly three other people in her area: her room holds four, that is 6 handshakes, and the Study adds 1. The other six people share the remaining 3 handshakes: either one room of three (3 handshakes) and three people alone, or three pairs. In the first case the Study is the only pair, so the Dining Room (Karina, Farrel, at most three people) is the room of three; in the second there is no room of three at all. Either way the Kitchen, with at least three people, is Daphne’s room of four: <b>the Kitchen holds four people, Daphne among them</b>, and as it lies in rows 9–12, those four rows belong to the Kitchen."},{"place":["V","H"],"cand":{"C":[[1,3],[1,6],[1,9]],"D":[[9,4],[10,6],[11,5],[11,7]],"F":[[7,8],[7,9],[8,8],[8,9]],"B":[[10,6],[11,5]],"J":[[2,1],[4,1],[7,1],[10,1],[11,1]]},"text":"Harrison had a bookcase in his row – row 1 (R1C8) or row 5 (R5C10) – and was alone with somebody sitting in an armchair: R2C9 in the Library, R3C11 in the Study or R7C5 in the Parlour. In row 1 only the Library has an armchair, and there R1C9 is the armchair’s own column, R1C10 is Karina’s column and R1C11, R1C12 are the Study’s columns. In row 5 the Porch square R5C1 is Julian’s column and the Hall has no armchair; the Parlour would leave him R5C3 with somebody in the armchair R7C5 – then rows 5, 6 and 7 are taken, Farrel is in row 8, rows 9–12 are the Kitchen’s, and the Study’s two people need rows 3 and 4: Arnold, whose Hall lies in rows 4–10, would have no row left. So Harrison is in the Study, and the person in the armchair R3C11 with him is Vic: <b>Vic is at R3C11, Harrison at R5C12</b> (R5C11 is Vic’s column) – Harrison was alone with the victim."},{"cand":{"C":[[1,3],[1,6],[1,9]],"A":[[4,6],[4,7],[7,7]],"D":[[9,4],[10,6],[11,5],[11,7]],"F":[[7,8],[7,9],[8,8],[8,9]],"B":[[10,6],[11,5]],"J":[[2,1],[4,1],[7,1],[10,1],[11,1]]},"text":"Which split was it, then: four, three, two and three people alone, or four and four pairs? Connor was not in a corner of his area, and exactly one row south of him somebody was beside a bench. The squares beside a bench are R1C2, R2C1, R2C3 and R3C2 in the Garden and R4C1, R4C3 in the Porch; row 3 is Vic’s, so Connor is in row 1 and the person below him is at R2C1 or R2C3 in the Garden. Connor: R1C3, R1C6 or R1C9. Suppose there were only pairs. In the Vestry (R1C6) Connor’s partner would have to be in row 2 – but the row-2 person is in the Garden. In the Library (R1C9) the partner would be at R4C8, and nobody can be there (Gretchen was not in the Library, Isabel’s column holds an armchair, the others are placed or confined elsewhere). So Connor would be at R1C3 with Julian at R2C1 in the Garden. Arnold then needs a partner in the Hall and the Kitchen a fourth person, and only Gretchen and Isabel are left. Isabel has no Hall square, so Gretchen joins Arnold and Isabel goes to the Kitchen at R11C5 (at R10C5 she would leave Brooke no square), which sends Brooke to R10C6 – and Arnold and Gretchen would have to share R4C7 and R7C7, both in column 7. Impossible: <b>the split is 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1</b>. The Dining Room holds three people, and everybody outside the Kitchen, the Dining Room and the Study was alone."},{"place":["I","F","G"],"cand":{"C":[[1,6],[1,9]],"A":[[4,6],[4,7]],"D":[[9,4],[10,6],[11,5],[11,7]],"B":[[10,6],[11,5]],"J":[[10,1],[11,1]]},"text":"The person in row 2 is in the Garden and alone there – so Connor is not at R1C3. Who can be in column 3 now? Not Connor any more; Daphne and Brooke are in the Kitchen, where the only free column-3 square R11C3 (R12C3 is Elizabeth’s row) is beside the table, and Karina was the only woman beside a table; Arnold is in the Hall, Farrel in the Dining Room, Isabel’s column is 5 or 9 and Julian’s is 1: <b>only Gretchen</b>. So the Dining Room’s third person is not Gretchen but Isabel, whose only Dining Room square is <b>R8C9</b> (R7C9 is beside the table) – and <b>Farrel is at R7C8</b>. The Dining Room fills rows 7 and 8, so Arnold is in row 4, and of Gretchen’s remaining column-3 squares R1C3 is Connor’s row and R4C3, R7C3, R8C3 are in taken rows: <b>Gretchen is at R2C3</b>, the one beside the bench."},{"place":["D","C","A","B","J"],"text":"Julian cannot be in the Garden (Gretchen was alone there), and R4C1 and R7C1 are in Arnold’s and Farrel’s rows: he is in the Kitchen, at R10C1 or R11C1. The Kitchen’s four are Brooke, Daphne, Elizabeth and Julian, so the person beside the sink at R9C4 is <b>Daphne</b>. Connor: R1C9 is Isabel’s column – <b>Connor is at R1C6</b> in the Vestry, not in a corner, with Gretchen beside the bench one row south. <b>Arnold is at R4C7</b> (R4C6 is Connor’s column), <b>Brooke at R11C5</b> (R10C6 as well) and <b>Julian at R10C1</b>. Count the coins: Kitchen 4 (6), Dining Room 3 (3), Study 2 (1) – ten handshakes."},{"final":true,"text":"Vic was found in the Study beside the desk, sitting in the armchair R3C11, and the only other person there was Harrison at R5C12: <b>Harrison is the murderer!</b>"}],"solver":{"rules":[{"type":"handshakes","n":10}],"occupiable":["armchair","bench","chair","sofa","stool"]},"verification":{"tool":"tools/murdoku_solver.py","unique":true,"guessFree":true,"checked":"2026-10-11"},"score":173.109}