{"format":"murdoku-puzzle/1","id":"riding","version":1,"difficulty":"medium","level":6,"size":{"rows":9,"cols":9},"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":"Die Reitschule","tagline":"Grafschaft Kildare · ein Oktoberabend nach der Dressurstunde · eine Grauschimmelstute zu verkaufen","author":"mathace","concept":"Murdoku – Manuel Garand (murdoku.com); unofficial fan-made case","created":"2026-10-19","story":"An einem Donnerstagabend im Oktober endete in einer Reitschule in der Grafschaft Kildare die letzte Dressurstunde. Vonnie, eine Vollblut-Agentin aus Newmarket, wollte die Grauschimmelstute ansehen, die man zu verkaufen hoffte. Die Reitschüler eilten nicht heim, einige saßen noch im Sattel. Dann wurde die Agentin tot aufgefunden, und die Papiere der Stute fehlten in ihrer Tasche.","rules":{"standard":["In jeder Zeile und jeder Spalte ist genau eine Person. Sobald du jemanden platzierst, streiche seine ganze Zeile und Spalte durch.","„Neben“ = direkt links, rechts, darüber oder darunter, und im selben Bereich. Felder mit Gegenständen (der Schreibtisch, die Sattelständer, das Fass, der Wassertrog, der Schrank, der Pokal, die Stiefel, die Schubkarre, die Bäume, die Leiter, die Spiegel, der Karren, der Schlauch und die Sprunghindernisse) können nicht besetzt werden; der Stuhl, die Bänke, die Pferde und die Heuballen schon.","Richtungen beziehen sich auf Zeilen und Spalten, nicht auf dieselbe Linie: „genau eine Zeile nördlich von ihm war eine Frau“ = die Person in der Zeile direkt darüber ist eine Frau, in beliebiger Spalte.","Der Mörder war allein mit dem Opfer: Niemand sonst war in diesem Bereich."],"special":["Genau drei Personen waren zu 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Sie war in der Reithalle.","job":"Schülerin, erwachsene Reiterin","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"guest","constraints":[{"type":"only_on","obj":"horse","gender":"F"},{"type":"area","areas":["Arena"]}]},{"id":"F","name":"Finbar","gender":"M","role":"guest","color":"#00838f","avatar":{"bg":"#00695c","skin":"#e4b998","hair":"#3a2a1c","style":"short","shirt":"#2a6a8a","mustache":true},"clue":"Er war nicht neben einem Pferd. Jemand anderes in seinem Bereich war neben einem Sprunghindernis.","job":"Schüler, Springreiter","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"guest","constraints":[{"type":"not_beside","obj":"horse"},{"type":"with_beside","obj":"showjump"}]},{"id":"G","name":"Garret","gender":"M","role":"guest","color":"#ad1457","avatar":{"bg":"#7a1f4a","skin":"#f1c8a5","hair":"#7a4a2a","style":"slick","shirt":"#c2185b","glasses":true},"clue":"Genau eine Zeile nördlich von ihm war ein Gast. In seiner Spalte waren irgendwo die Stiefel.","job":"Schüler, jugendlicher Reiter","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"guest","constraints":[{"type":"rel_any","dir":"N","exact":1,"role":"guest"},{"type":"col_has","obj":"boots"}]},{"id":"H","name":"Hollie","gender":"F","role":"guest","color":"#5d4037","avatar":{"bg":"#4a4a2a","skin":"#f3d3b5","hair":"#8a5a2a","style":"long","shirt":"#5d6b3a","scarf":"#c0392b","earrings":true},"clue":"Sie war die einzige Person neben einem Baum.","job":"Mutter eines Schülers","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"guest","constraints":[{"type":"only_beside","obj":"tree"}]},{"id":"V","name":"Vonnie","gender":"F","role":"victim","color":"#1b1b1b","avatar":{"bg":"#5a2a2a","skin":"#f3d3b5","hair":"#1c1a1a","style":"bob","shirt":"#1b1b1b","necklace":true,"earrings":true},"clue":"Das Opfer. Sie wurde neben einem Sattelständer gefunden – allein mit dem Mörder.","job":"Vollblut-Agentin aus Newmarket","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"guest","constraints":[{"type":"beside","obj":"saddlerack"}]}],"victim":"V","murderer":"C","solution":{"A":[1,1],"V":[2,6],"C":[3,5],"B":[4,9],"D":[5,3],"E":[6,2],"G":[7,4],"F":[8,7],"H":[9,8]},"walkthrough":[{"place":["H"],"cand":{"A":[[1,1],[1,3],[2,3]],"B":[[2,9],[3,9],[4,9],[6,9],[7,9],[8,9]],"C":[[1,5],[2,5],[2,6],[3,3],[3,5],[4,3],[4,5],[4,6],[5,5],[6,5],[7,6],[8,6]],"D":[[1,1],[1,3],[1,5],[2,3],[2,5],[2,6],[2,7],[3,3],[3,5],[3,6],[4,3],[4,5],[4,6],[4,7],[5,3],[5,6],[5,7],[6,1],[6,3],[6,5],[6,7],[7,1],[7,3],[7,5],[7,6],[7,7],[8,3],[8,5],[8,6]],"E":[[6,2],[8,2]],"F":[[6,7],[8,7]],"G":[[2,4],[4,4],[5,4],[6,4],[7,4],[8,4]],"V":[[1,5],[2,6]]},"text":"Vonnie was found beside a saddle rack. Both saddle racks (R1C4, R1C6) are in the Tack Room, so she is at R1C5, R2C4 or R2C6. The boots were in Garret’s column: the boots are at R3C4, so Garret is in column 4 – and Vonnie cannot be at R2C4, she is at R1C5 or R2C6. Eithne was in the Arena and on horseback; the horses of the Arena are at R6C2, R7C4 and R8C2. R7C4 is in Garret’s column, so Eithne is at R6C2 or R8C2 – column 2 is hers. Barry was in the last column, column 9. Hollie was the only person beside a tree. The tree at R4C1 has one neighbour in the Yard, R4C2; the tree at R9C9 has two in the Paddock, R8C9 and R9C8. R4C2 is in Eithne’s column and R8C9 in Barry’s, so Hollie is at R9C8."},{"place":["G"],"cand":{"A":[[1,1],[1,3],[2,3]],"B":[[3,9],[4,9]],"C":[[3,3],[3,5],[4,3],[4,5],[4,6],[5,5]],"D":[[3,3],[3,5],[3,6],[4,3],[4,5],[4,6],[5,3],[5,6]],"E":[[6,2],[8,2]],"F":[[6,7],[8,7]],"V":[[1,5],[2,6]]},"text":"The cabinet was in Aisling’s area: it is at R2C1 in the Office, so she is in the Office – at R1C1, R1C3 or R2C3 (column 2 is Eithne’s). Aisling and Vonnie are both in rows 1–2, so these two rows are theirs and nobody else can use them. Somebody else in Finbar’s area was beside a show jump – both show jumps are in the Paddock, so Finbar is in the Paddock. Column 9 is Barry’s, column 8 and row 9 are Hollie’s, which leaves R6C7, R7C7 and R8C7; R7C7 is beside the horse at R8C7, and Finbar was not beside a horse, so he is at R6C7 or R8C7. Eithne (R6C2 or R8C2) and Finbar (R6C7 or R8C7) therefore fill rows 6 and 8. Now Garret, in column 4: exactly one row north of him was a guest. Rows 1, 2, 6, 8 and 9 belong to others and the boots are at R3C4, so he is at R4C4, R5C4 or R7C4. The guests are Eithne, Finbar, Hollie and Vonnie, and none of them can be in row 3 or row 4. So Garret is at R7C4, on a horse, with Eithne or Finbar in row 6 north of him. Barry, in column 9, is left with R3C9 and R4C9."},{"place":["A","V"],"cand":{"B":[[3,9],[4,9]],"C":[[3,3],[3,5],[4,3],[4,5],[5,5]],"D":[[3,3],[3,5],[4,3],[4,5],[5,3]],"E":[[6,2],[8,2]],"F":[[6,7],[8,7]]},"text":"Column 1 still needs somebody. Its free squares are R1C1, R6C1, R7C1 and R9C1 (the cabinet, the trophy, the tree and the two mirrors fill the rest), and rows 6, 7 and 9 are taken – so somebody is at R1C1, in the Office. Who? Barry, Eithne, Finbar, Garret, Hollie and Vonnie are elsewhere; Cathal had a bench in his area, and the Office has none; Deirdre had a guest in her area, and no guest can be in the Office. So Aisling is at R1C1. Row 1 is hers, so Vonnie is at R2C6."},{"place":["D","F","E"],"cand":{"B":[[3,9],[4,9]],"C":[[3,5],[4,5]]},"text":"Five people are left: Barry, Cathal, Deirdre, Eithne and Finbar. Eithne and Finbar take rows 6 and 8 and columns 2 and 7, so Barry, Cathal and Deirdre share rows 3, 4 and 5, and the free columns for Cathal and Deirdre are 3 and 5 (Barry is at R3C9 or R4C9). Deirdre had a guest in her area. The guests are in the Tack Room (Vonnie), the Arena (Eithne, Garret) and the Paddock (Finbar, Hollie); the Yard squares R3C3, R4C3 and R4C5 hold no guest, and Deirdre cannot sit on the Yard horse at R5C5, because Eithne was the only woman on horseback. So Deirdre is at R3C5 in the Tack Room or at R5C3 in the Arena. If she were at R3C5, Barry would take row 4 (R4C9) and Cathal would be left with R5C3 – in the Arena, where there is no bench. So Deirdre is at R5C3. Now the special rule: exactly three people were on horseback. Eithne and Garret (R7C4) are two of them, and the third must be a man, since Eithne was the only woman on horseback. Barry has no horse at R3C9 or R4C9, and neither has Cathal in column 5, in row 3 or 4 (the Yard horse at R5C5 is in Deirdre’s row). So Finbar rides: Finbar is at R8C7, on the horse, and Eithne is at R6C2."},{"place":["C","B"],"cand":{},"text":"The victim’s area held exactly two people: Vonnie and the murderer. The free squares of the Tack Room are R1C5 (Aisling’s row), R2C4 and R2C5 (Vonnie’s row) and R3C5, so the murderer is at R3C5. Barry is in column 9, so only Cathal can be there – and his statement fits: there was a bench (R2C4) in his area. Cathal is at R3C5, alone with Vonnie in the Tack Room: he is the murderer. Row 3 is his, so Barry is at R4C9, on the hay bale in the Hay Barn."},{"final":true,"text":"Case closed: Vonnie was alone in the Tack Room with the farrier. Cathal is the murderer!"}],"solver":{"rules":[{"type":"count_on","obj":"horse","n":3}],"occupiable":["bench","chair","hay","horse"]},"verification":{"tool":"tools/murdoku_solver.py","unique":true,"guessFree":true,"checked":"2026-10-19"},"score":11.2447}