{"format":"murdoku-puzzle/1","id":"patisserie","version":1,"difficulty":"easy","level":3,"size":{"rows":6,"cols":6},"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 Patisserie","tagline":"A Budapest patisserie · a Sunday morning in 1912 · the oven was still warm","author":"mathace","concept":"Murdoku – Manuel Garand (murdoku.com); unofficial fan-made case","created":"2026-09-28","story":"Budapest, spring 1912, a Sunday morning in the most elegant patisserie on the square. The first Dobos cakes had just come out of the oven, the espresso machine hissed behind the shop counter, and the marble tables of the salon and the terrace filled up with ladies in hats and gentlemen with newspapers. Vendel, the head confectioner, had promised to reveal his secret recipe to someone that very morning. He never did: he was found in the bakehouse, beside the oven. Everyone in the house gave a short statement – find out who was alone with him.","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 shelf, the oven, the espresso machine, the tiered cake, the flower tubs, the café table and the parasol) cannot be occupied; the chairs can.","Directions refer to rows and columns, not to the same line: “exactly one row north of him was a woman” = the person in the row directly above is a woman, in any column.","The murderer was alone with the victim: nobody else was in that area."],"special":[]},"roleNames":{"staff":"staff","guest":"guest","victim":"victim"},"personGroups":[{"id":"staff","name":"The staff","persons":["A","B","V"]},{"id":"guests","name":"Guests","persons":["C","D","E"]}],"map":{"groups":[],"gaps":[],"areas":[{"id":"Pantry","cells":[[1,1],[2,1],[3,1]],"fill":"#e6dcc8","pattern":"planks","labelAt":[2,1],"name":"Pantry"},{"id":"Bakehouse","cells":[[1,2],[1,3],[2,2],[2,3],[2,4],[3,4]],"fill":"#f1dfcc","pattern":"tiles","labelAt":[2,3],"name":"Bakehouse"},{"id":"Shop","cells":[[1,4],[1,5],[1,6],[2,5],[2,6],[3,5]],"fill":"#f6e2ea","pattern":"tiles","labelAt":[2,5],"name":"Shop"},{"id":"Salon","cells":[[3,2],[3,3],[4,1],[4,2],[4,3],[4,4],[5,1],[5,2],[5,3],[6,1],[6,2]],"fill":"#eee0d2","pattern":"carpet","labelAt":[5,1],"name":"Salon"},{"id":"Terrace","cells":[[3,6],[4,5],[4,6],[5,4],[5,5],[5,6],[6,3],[6,4],[6,5],[6,6]],"fill":"#e3e9d6","pattern":"tiles","labelAt":[4,6],"name":"Terrace"}],"objectTypes":{"chair":{"occupiable":true,"name":"chair","icon":""},"bistro":{"occupiable":false,"name":"café table","icon":""},"cake":{"occupiable":false,"name":"tiered cake","icon":""},"espresso":{"occupiable":false,"name":"espresso machine","icon":""},"flowers":{"occupiable":false,"name":"flower tub","icon":""},"oven":{"occupiable":false,"name":"oven","icon":""},"shelf":{"occupiable":false,"name":"shelf","icon":""},"umbrella":{"occupiable":false,"name":"parasol","icon":""}},"wallTypes":{},"objects":[{"cell":[1,1],"type":"shelf"},{"cell":[1,2],"type":"oven"},{"cell":[1,4],"type":"espresso"},{"cell":[1,6],"type":"cake"},{"cell":[3,2],"type":"chair"},{"cell":[3,6],"type":"flowers"},{"cell":[4,1],"type":"chair"},{"cell":[4,2],"type":"bistro"},{"cell":[4,3],"type":"chair"},{"cell":[4,5],"type":"chair"},{"cell":[5,2],"type":"chair"},{"cell":[5,4],"type":"chair"},{"cell":[5,5],"type":"umbrella"},{"cell":[5,6],"type":"chair"},{"cell":[6,3],"type":"flowers"},{"cell":[6,5],"type":"chair"}],"wallFeatures":[],"extras":[],"cellSize":46},"persons":[{"id":"A","name":"Aranka","gender":"F","role":"staff","color":"#c62828","avatar":{"bg":"#8c3a5a","skin":"#f6d8c0","hair":"#7a4a2a","style":"bun","shirt":"#f4efe6","apron":true},"clue":"The tiered cake was somewhere in her row.","job":"the shop girl behind the counter","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"staff","constraints":[{"type":"row_has","obj":"cake"}]},{"id":"B","name":"Bendegúz","gender":"M","role":"staff","color":"#2e7d32","avatar":{"bg":"#35607a","skin":"#f1c8a5","hair":"#3a2a1c","style":"short","shirt":"#f4efe6","apron":true},"clue":"He was on the Terrace. He was not beside the parasol.","job":"the apprentice confectioner","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"staff","constraints":[{"type":"area","areas":["Terrace"]},{"type":"not_beside","obj":"umbrella"}]},{"id":"C","name":"Cyrill","gender":"M","role":"guest","color":"#1565c0","avatar":{"bg":"#2f4858","skin":"#e7b98f","hair":"#1c1a1a","style":"slick","shirt":"#2f3b4c","mustache":true,"mustacheColor":"#1c1a1a","glasses":true},"clue":"He was the only man beside the café table. He was alone with a woman.","job":"a newspaper critic","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"guest","constraints":[{"type":"only_beside","obj":"bistro","gender":"M"},{"type":"with_gender","gender":"F","exact":true}]},{"id":"D","name":"Dorottya","gender":"F","role":"guest","color":"#6a1b9a","avatar":{"bg":"#6e2c4b","skin":"#f0cdb0","hair":"#b7482c","style":"curly","shirt":"#b83a5a","earrings":true,"necklace":true},"clue":"She was the easternmost person in her area.","job":"an operetta actress","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"guest","constraints":[{"type":"extreme_in_area","dir":"E"}]},{"id":"E","name":"Etelka","gender":"F","role":"guest","color":"#e65100","avatar":{"bg":"#3d2a5a","skin":"#f6d8c0","hair":"#d9d4cc","style":"bun","shirt":"#5b2c6f","necklace":true,"earrings":true},"clue":"Exactly one row north of her was a member of staff. The café table was not in her area.","job":"a countess, regular customer","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"guest","constraints":[{"type":"rel_any","dir":"N","exact":1,"role":"staff"},{"type":"not_area_has","obj":"bistro"}]},{"id":"V","name":"Vendel","gender":"M","role":"victim","color":"#1b1b1b","avatar":{"bg":"#5a2a2a","skin":"#e4b998","hair":"#8a8278","style":"bald","shirt":"#f4efe6","mustache":true,"mustacheColor":"#8a8278","apron":true},"clue":"The victim. He was found in the Bakehouse, beside the oven – alone with the murderer.","job":"the head confectioner","avatarSvg":"","solverRole":"staff","constraints":[{"type":"area","areas":["Bakehouse"]},{"type":"beside","obj":"oven"}]}],"victim":"V","murderer":"E","solution":{"A":[1,5],"V":[2,2],"E":[3,4],"C":[4,1],"D":[5,3],"B":[6,6]},"walkthrough":[{"place":["V","A"],"cand":{"B":[[6,4],[6,6]],"C":[[4,1]],"D":[[3,3],[5,3]],"E":[[3,1],[3,4],[5,4],[5,6],[6,4],[6,6]]},"text":"Vendel was found beside the oven (R1C2) in the Bakehouse: R1C3 or R2C2 – and the murderer was alone with him there, so the Bakehouse holds exactly two people. Aranka had the tiered cake (R1C6) in her row: she is in row 1, at R1C3 or R1C5, so Vendel is at R2C2. Cyrill was beside the café table (R4C2); R3C2 and R5C2 lie in Vendel’s column, so he is at R4C1 or R4C3 – row 4 is his. He was alone with a woman in the Salon: not Aranka (she is in row 1) and not Etelka (the café table was not in her area) – so it is Dorottya, who, as the easternmost person in the Salon, is east of Cyrill. Outside row 4 and column 2 the Salon leaves her R3C3, R5C1, R5C3 and R6C1; east of Cyrill she cannot be in column 1, so she is at R3C3 or R5C3: column 3 is hers. R1C3 lies in her column: Aranka is at R1C5, in the Shop."},{"place":["C","E"],"cand":{"B":[[6,6]],"D":[[5,3]]},"text":"Column 3 is Dorottya’s, so Cyrill is at R4C1. Etelka had a member of staff exactly one row north of her. The staff are Aranka (row 1), Vendel (row 2) and Bendegúz, who was on the Terrace but not beside the parasol (R5C5): R4C6, R6C4 or R6C6 – and R4C6 lies in Cyrill’s row, so he is in row 6. Etelka is therefore in row 2, 3 or 7: row 2 is Vendel’s and there is no row 7, so she is in row 3. There R3C1 lies in Cyrill’s column, R3C2 in Vendel’s, R3C3 in Dorottya’s and R3C5 in Aranka’s: Etelka is at R3C4 – in the Bakehouse. Only the murderer was there with Vendel, so the only person who can be alone with him in the Bakehouse is Etelka: Etelka is the murderer."},{"place":["B","D"],"text":"Bendegúz is in row 6, and R6C4 lies in Etelka’s column: Bendegúz is at R6C6. Dorottya is in column 3, and R3C3 lies in Etelka’s row: Dorottya is at R5C3 – the easternmost person in the Salon, which she shares only with Cyrill. Everyone is placed."},{"final":true,"text":"Case closed: Vendel was alone in the Bakehouse with the countess, a regular of the house. Etelka is the murderer!"}],"solver":{"rules":[],"occupiable":["chair"]},"verification":{"tool":"tools/murdoku_solver.py","unique":true,"guessFree":true,"checked":"2026-09-28"}}