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Room"]}]}],"victim":"V","murderer":"C","solution":{"D":[1,1],"V":[2,5],"C":[3,6],"F":[4,2],"B":[5,3],"E":[6,7],"A":[7,4],"G":[8,8]},"walkthrough":[{"place":["F"],"cand":{"C":[[1,6],[3,6]],"E":[[6,7],[7,6],[7,8]],"V":[[1,6],[2,5],[3,6]]},"text":"Corbinian was beside the drying rack (R2C6) – R1C6, R2C5 or R3C6 – and in a corner of the Drying Room, so R1C6 or R3C6: column 6 is his, cross it out for everyone else. Erika was beside the stool (R7C7): R6C7, R7C6, R7C8 or R8C7 – not R8C7, because Gisela was south of her. Fritz was beside a bench (R5C2 or R7C4): R4C2, R5C1, R5C3, R7C3, R7C5 or R8C4, and exactly one row north of him was a man. The men are Anton (on a bench, so R5C2 or R7C4), Corbinian (column 6) and Valdemar (in the Drying Room, rows 1–3). For R5C1 or R5C3 a man would have to be in row 4 – none of them can be; for R7C3 or R7C5 in row 6 – none; for R8C4 in row 7 – only Anton on R7C4, but that is Fritz’s own column. So <b>Fritz is at R4C2</b>, and the man in row 3 is Corbinian or Valdemar. Cross out row 4 and column 2."},{"place":["V","C"],"cand":{"A":[[7,4]],"E":[[6,7],[7,8]]},"text":"Valdemar was in the Drying Room: R1C6 and R3C6 are in Corbinian’s column, so <b>Valdemar is at R2C5</b>. Row 3 must hold a man (Fritz’s statement), and Valdemar is in row 2 – so <b>Corbinian is at R3C6</b>, the corner beside the rack, alone with Valdemar in the Drying Room. Cross out rows 2–3 and columns 5–6."},{"place":["A","E"],"cand":{"G":[[8,8]]},"text":"Anton sat on a bench: R5C2 is in Fritz’s column, so <b>Anton is at R7C4</b>. Row 7 is now taken and column 6 too, so Erika’s only square is <b>R6C7</b>. Cross out rows 6–7 and columns 4 and 7."},{"place":["G"],"cand":{"B":[[5,1],[5,3]],"D":[[1,1]]},"text":"Gisela was in the Kitchen, south of Erika: R7C6 is in Corbinian’s column, R7C7 and R8C7 in Erika’s, R7C8 in Anton’s row – so <b>Gisela is at R8C8</b>. Cross out row 8 and column 8."},{"place":["D","B"],"text":"Berta was with a man. No man can be in the Dormitory (Anton is on a bench, Corbinian and Valdemar are in the Drying Room, Fritz in the Common Room), the Kitchen holds only Erika and Gisela, and nobody else is on the Porch – so Berta is in the Common Room, in row 5: R5C1 or R5C3. Dagmar was in a corner of her area; rows 1 and 5 are left, and row 5 has no corner square, so she is in row 1: R1C4 is in Anton’s column and R1C7 in Erika’s – <b>Dagmar is at R1C1</b>, on a bunk. Column 1 is hers, so <b>Berta is at R5C3</b>."},{"final":true,"text":"Case closed: Valdemar was alone with Corbinian in the Drying Room. <b>Corbinian is the murderer!</b>"}],"solver":{"rules":[],"occupiable":["bed","bench","armchair","stool"]},"verification":{"tool":"tools/murdoku_solver.py","unique":true,"guessFree":true,"checked":"2026-09-16"}}