{"format":"murdoku-puzzle/1","id":"skyscraper","version":1,"difficulty":"expert","level":9,"size":{"rows":12,"cols":12},"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":"Gratte-ciel","tagline":"Un parc miniature · un essai de lumière en soirée · dix tours, un atelier","author":"mathace","concept":"Murdoku – Manuel Garand (murdoku.com); unofficial fan-made case","created":"2026-10-23","story":"Un parc miniature en bordure d’Istanbul, la section « Les tours du monde », fin septembre. Le parc a fermé, mais on teste les projecteurs des dix maquettes de gratte-ciel ; les maquettistes, trois employés du parc et quatre visiteurs sont donc encore dehors, sur les parcelles. Le parc est plongé dans le noir pour l’essai – et quand les lumières reviennent, Volkan, le maquettiste en chef, est retrouvé mort. Le spectacle a été annulé.","rules":{"standard":["Chaque ligne et chaque colonne contient exactement une personne. Dès que tu places quelqu’un, barre toute sa ligne et sa colonne.","« À côté » = directement à gauche, à droite, au-dessus ou en dessous, et dans la même zone. Les cases avec des objets (les dix maquettes, les arbres, les panneaux, les lampes, la fontaine, le distributeur automatique, le guichet, les bornes, la table, l’étagère, la caisse) ne peuvent pas être occupées ; les bancs et les tabourets, si. Un coin d’une zone est une de ses cases qui donne vers l’extérieur (une autre zone ou le bord du plateau) sur un côté horizontal et sur un côté vertical.","Les directions se réfèrent aux lignes, pas à la même colonne : « exactement une ligne au nord d’elle, il y avait un homme du personnel du parc » = la personne de la ligne juste au-dessus est un homme du personnel du parc, dans n’importe quelle colonne.","« Un panneau se trouvait quelque part dans sa colonne » = un panneau est sur l’une des cases de sa colonne, dans n’importe quelle zone ; « un banc se trouvait quelque part dans sa zone » = sur une case de la zone où elle était. La « première ligne » est la ligne 1, la « dernière colonne » est la colonne 12.","Le meurtrier était seul avec la victime : personne d’autre ne se trouvait dans cette zone."],"special":["Dans chaque zone de gratte-ciel, il y avait exactement une personne."],"notes":["Les zones de gratte-ciel sont les dix zones nommées d’après une tour – tout le terrain autour de la maquette, pas seulement les cases voisines ; l’Atelier n’en fait pas partie."],"example":{}},"roleNames":{"maker":"maquettiste","visitor":"visiteur","staff":"personnel","victim":"victime"},"personGroups":[{"id":"makers","name":"Volkan et les maquettistes","persons":["A","B","C","D","V"]},{"id":"visitors","name":"Les visiteurs","persons":["E","F","G","H"]},{"id":"staff","name":"Le personnel du parc","persons":["I","J","K"]}],"map":{"groups":[],"gaps":[],"areas":[{"id":"Petronas 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Il était à côté d’une lampe.","job":"maquettiste, façades","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"maker","constraints":[{"type":"area","areas":["Transamerica Pyramid"]},{"type":"beside","obj":"lamp"}]},{"id":"B","name":"Berna","gender":"F","role":"maker","color":"#1565c0","avatar":{"bg":"#4a3a4a","skin":"#f1d0b0","hair":"#2a1a10","style":"long","shirt":"#2a5a6a","earrings":true,"lips":"#9a2a3a"},"clue":"Elle était dans un coin de sa zone. Un panneau se trouvait quelque part dans sa colonne.","job":"maquettiste, éclairage","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"maker","constraints":[{"type":"corner_of_area"},{"type":"col_has","obj":"sign"}]},{"id":"C","name":"Cem","gender":"M","role":"maker","color":"#2e7d32","avatar":{"bg":"#3a3a4a","skin":"#e7b98f","hair":"#2a1a10","style":"short","shirt":"#3a4a6a","mustache":true,"mustacheColor":"#2a1a10"},"clue":"Il était dans la zone Burj Khalifa. Il était dans un coin de sa zone.","job":"maquettiste, impression 3D","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"maker","constraints":[{"type":"area","areas":["Burj Khalifa"]},{"type":"corner_of_area"}]},{"id":"D","name":"Defne","gender":"F","role":"maker","color":"#6a1b9a","avatar":{"bg":"#5a4a3a","skin":"#f3d3b5","hair":"#5a3a22","style":"bob","shirt":"#6a7a3a","glasses":true},"clue":"Elle était dans la zone The Gherkin. 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Exactement une ligne au nord d’elle, il y avait un homme du personnel du parc.","job":"institutrice","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"visitor","constraints":[{"type":"area_has","obj":"bench"},{"type":"rel_any","dir":"N","exact":1,"gender":"M","role":"staff"}]},{"id":"I","name":"İsmail","gender":"M","role":"staff","color":"#558b2f","avatar":{"bg":"#2a2a3a","skin":"#e9c6a4","hair":"#2a1a10","style":"short","shirt":"#2b3a4f","mustache":true,"mustacheColor":"#2a1a10","cap":"#2a2a30"},"clue":"Il n’était pas à côté de la caisse.","job":"gardien de nuit","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"staff","constraints":[{"type":"not_beside","obj":"crate"}]},{"id":"J","name":"Jale","gender":"F","role":"staff","color":"#283593","avatar":{"bg":"#4a4a3a","skin":"#f1c8a5","hair":"#1c1a1a","style":"bun","shirt":"#3a4a4a","glasses":true,"earrings":true},"clue":"Elle était dans la zone The Shard.","job":"guichetière","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"staff","constraints":[{"type":"area","areas":["The Shard"]}]},{"id":"K","name":"Kerem","gender":"M","role":"staff","color":"#f9a825","avatar":{"bg":"#4a3a3a","skin":"#efc7a3","hair":"#5a3a22","style":"short","shirt":"#5a4a2a","beard":true,"cap":"#2a2a30"},"clue":"Il était dans la première ligne.","job":"électricien","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"staff","constraints":[{"type":"row","rows":[1]}]},{"id":"V","name":"Volkan","gender":"M","role":"victim","color":"#1b1b1b","avatar":{"bg":"#2a2a3a","skin":"#e9c6a4","hair":"#8a8a8a","style":"slick","shirt":"#1f1f24","mustache":true,"mustacheColor":"#8a8a8a","apron":"#6a5a4a"},"clue":"La victime. Il a été retrouvé dans l’Atelier, à côté de la table – seul avec le meurtrier.","job":"le maquettiste en chef","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"maker","constraints":[{"type":"area","areas":["Workshop"]},{"type":"beside","obj":"table"}]}],"victim":"V","murderer":"I","solution":{"A":[10,10],"B":[11,8],"C":[9,4],"D":[12,5],"E":[4,12],"F":[8,9],"G":[3,11],"H":[2,1],"I":[6,3],"J":[7,2],"K":[1,6],"V":[5,7]},"walkthrough":[{"place":[],"cand":{"E":[[2,12],[3,12],[4,12],[5,12]],"K":[[1,3],[1,4],[1,5],[1,6],[1,8],[1,9],[1,10]],"A":[[10,10],[12,9],[12,11]],"C":[[8,3],[9,4],[12,1]],"F":[[7,9],[8,9],[8,10]],"D":[[7,7],[8,6],[8,8],[11,4],[12,5]],"J":[[3,3],[4,1],[4,2],[4,3],[5,1],[5,3],[6,1],[7,2],[7,3]]},"text":"The bookkeeping. Every square of Emre’s is in the last column, so column 12 is his and nobody else may stand in it; Kerem’s squares are all in row 1, so row 1 is his. Five suspects name their skyscraper area – Jale The Shard, Fatma the Shanghai Tower, Cem the Burj Khalifa, Defne The Gherkin, Ahmet the Transamerica Pyramid – and every skyscraper area held exactly one person, so those five areas are theirs alone: cross everybody else out of them. Cem’s corners of the Burj Khalifa area are R8C3, R9C4 and R12C1; Defne’s corners of the Gherkin area R7C7, R8C6, R8C8, R11C4 and R12C5; Ahmet stands beside a lamp on R10C10, R12C9 or R12C11."},{"place":[],"cand":{"C":[[8,3],[9,4],[12,1]],"D":[[7,7],[8,6],[8,8],[11,4],[12,5]],"B":[[2,8],[3,1],[3,8],[4,8],[5,8],[6,8],[7,8],[11,8]],"G":[[2,1],[2,3],[2,4],[2,6],[2,10],[3,4],[3,6],[3,10],[3,11],[4,6],[4,9],[5,5],[5,7],[5,9],[5,11],[6,4],[6,5],[6,6],[6,9],[7,4],[7,5]],"I":[[2,1],[2,3],[2,4],[2,5],[2,6],[2,8],[2,10],[3,1],[3,2],[3,4],[3,5],[3,6],[3,7],[3,9],[3,10],[3,11],[4,4],[4,6],[4,7],[4,8],[4,9],[4,11],[5,4],[5,5],[5,7],[5,8],[5,9],[5,11],[6,3],[6,4],[6,5],[6,6],[6,7],[6,8],[6,9],[6,10],[7,5],[7,6],[7,8],[9,9],[11,8]]},"text":"The skyscraper. Rows 9 and 11 each have only two free squares left: R9C4 (Cem’s Burj corner) and R9C9 (a corner of the Flatiron Building) in row 9, R11C4 (Defne’s Gherkin corner) and R11C8 (the other Flatiron corner) in row 11. The two “feet” R9C4 and R11C4 stand in the same column, so at most one of them is occupied – which means at least one of the “roofs” R9C9 / R11C8 is: the Flatiron Building area’s one person stands on one of them. The area’s third free square, R10C8, is therefore nobody’s – cross it out for everybody."},{"place":["A"],"cand":{"F":[[7,9],[8,9]],"C":[[8,3],[9,4],[12,1]],"D":[[7,7],[8,6],[8,8],[11,4],[12,5]],"B":[[2,8],[3,1],[3,8],[4,8],[5,8],[6,8],[7,8],[11,8]]},"text":"Row 10. With R10C8 gone, row 10 has a single free square: Ahmet is on R10C10, beside the lamp of the Transamerica Pyramid. Column 10 is closed, so Fatma is left with R7C9 and R8C9 – column 9 is hers."},{"place":["C","D","F"],"cand":{"B":[[3,1],[11,8]],"K":[[1,3],[1,6]],"E":[[2,12],[3,12],[4,12],[5,12]],"G":[[2,1],[2,3],[2,6],[3,6],[3,11],[4,6],[5,7],[5,11],[6,6]],"H":[[2,1],[2,3],[2,6],[3,1],[3,2],[3,6],[3,7],[5,11]],"I":[[2,1],[2,3],[2,6],[3,1],[3,2],[3,6],[3,7],[3,11],[4,6],[4,7],[4,11],[5,7],[5,11],[6,3],[6,6],[6,7],[7,6],[11,8]],"J":[[3,3],[4,1],[4,2],[4,3],[5,1],[5,3],[6,1],[7,2],[7,3]],"V":[[4,6],[5,7],[6,6]]},"text":"The chain. Column 9 being Fatma’s, R9C9 is nobody else’s, and row 9 keeps one square: Cem is on R9C4. Column 4 is closed, so Defne loses R11C4 and row 12 keeps one square for her: Defne is on R12C5. Row 8 is left with R8C9: Fatma is on R8C9. Row 11 now has a single free square, R11C8 – Berna or İsmail stands there; either way column 8 is closed for everybody else, so Berna is down to R3C1 or R11C8."},{"place":[],"cand":{"V":[[4,6],[5,7],[6,6]],"K":[[1,3],[1,6]],"G":[[2,1],[2,3],[2,6],[3,6],[3,11],[5,11]],"I":[[2,1],[2,3],[2,6],[3,1],[3,2],[3,6],[3,7],[3,11],[4,11],[5,11],[6,3],[11,8]],"J":[[3,3],[4,1],[4,2],[4,3],[5,1],[5,3],[6,1],[7,2],[7,3]]},"text":"Two columns, two people. Volkan was beside the table: his squares R4C6, R5C7 and R6C6 are all in columns 6–7. The Empire State Building area’s free squares – R1C6, R2C6, R3C6, R3C7 – are in columns 6–7 too, and that area holds exactly one person. Columns 6 and 7 hold exactly two people, so they are Volkan and the Empire State Building area’s person and nobody else: the Workshop’s squares in columns 6–7 (R4C6, R4C7, R5C7, R6C6, R6C7, R7C6) are not Gökhan’s or İsmail’s."},{"place":["I","J","K","V"],"cand":{"B":[[3,1],[11,8]],"E":[[2,12],[3,12],[4,12]],"G":[[2,1],[3,11]],"H":[[2,1],[3,1]]},"text":"The murderer. Row 7 is left with Jale’s squares only, R7C2 and R7C3. The Workshop must hold a second person beside Volkan – the murderer – and the only suspect who can still stand there is İsmail, on R6C3: İsmail is the murderer. Column 3 closes: Jale is on R7C2, Kerem on R1C6 (the Empire State Building), and Volkan loses R4C6 (Kerem’s column) and R6C6 (İsmail’s row): Volkan lay on R5C7."},{"place":["B","G","H","E"],"text":"Column 1. Hande’s two remaining squares, R2C1 and R3C1, are both in column 1, so the column is hers: Berna is on R11C8 (the Flatiron Building), Gökhan loses R2C1 and stands on R3C11 (the Chrysler Building), Hande on R2C1 (the Petronas Towers – Kerem, a man of the park staff, is indeed exactly one row north of her) and Emre on R4C12 (Taipei 101)."},{"final":true,"text":"All twelve are placed: ten skyscraper areas with one person each, and in the Workshop only İsmail was with Volkan – the night guard is the murderer."}],"solver":{"rules":[{"type":"area_count_min_each","areas":["Petronas Towers","Empire State Building","Chrysler Building","The Shard","Taipei 101","Shanghai Tower","Transamerica Pyramid","Burj Khalifa","The Gherkin","Flatiron Building"],"n":1},{"type":"area_count_max_each","areas":["Petronas Towers","Empire State Building","Chrysler Building","The Shard","Taipei 101","Shanghai Tower","Transamerica Pyramid","Burj Khalifa","The Gherkin","Flatiron Building"],"n":1}],"occupiable":["bench","stool"]},"verification":{"tool":"tools/murdoku_solver.py","unique":true,"guessFree":true,"checked":"2026-10-23"},"score":255.071}