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Read every statement, find everyone’s square on the plan and unmask the murderer – alone with Vilmos in the Kiln Hall.","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 kiln, the potter’s wheels, the shelves, the counter, the trolley, the firewood, the sink, the cart, the table, the crate, the tree) cannot be occupied; the stools, the chairs, the bench and the doormat can. 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Hall"]},{"type":"beside","obj":"kiln"}]}],"victim":"V","murderer":"D","solution":{"E":[1,3],"V":[2,7],"B":[3,2],"D":[4,8],"A":[5,6],"C":[6,4],"G":[7,1],"F":[8,5]},"walkthrough":[{"place":["A"],"cand":{"B":[[3,2],[6,4]],"C":[[3,2],[3,3],[4,1],[4,2],[4,3],[6,3],[6,4]],"D":[[2,8],[3,8],[4,8],[6,8],[8,8]],"E":[[1,2],[1,3],[1,5],[2,1],[2,2],[2,3],[2,4],[2,7],[2,8],[3,2],[3,3],[3,4],[3,7],[3,8],[4,1],[4,2],[4,3],[4,7],[4,8],[6,2],[6,3],[6,4],[6,7],[6,8],[7,1],[7,2],[7,3],[7,5],[7,7],[8,1],[8,3],[8,4],[8,5],[8,7],[8,8]],"F":[[8,5],[8,7]],"G":[[6,2],[6,7],[6,8],[7,1],[7,2],[7,3],[7,5],[7,7],[8,1],[8,3],[8,4],[8,5],[8,7],[8,8]],"V":[[2,7],[2,8]]},"text":"Vilmos was found beside the kiln in the Kiln Hall: R1C6, R2C7 or R2C8 – and the murderer was alone with him there, so the Kiln Hall holds exactly two people. Bertram was sitting on a stool, and all three stools stand in the Throwing Room (R3C2, R5C2 and R6C4); Corinna was with him, so the Throwing Room holds at least two people. Annika had the firewood (R5C8) somewhere in her row – she is in row 5 – and she was alone in her area: R5C2, R5C3, R5C4 and R5C5 lie in the Throwing Room, where Bertram and Corinna are, R5C7 in the Kiln Hall, where Vilmos and the murderer are. She can be alone only in the Glaze Booth: <b>Annika is at R5C6.</b> Row 5 and column 6 are hers, and nobody else is in the Glaze Booth."},{"place":["V","F"],"cand":{"B":[[3,2],[6,4]],"C":[[3,2],[3,3],[4,1],[4,2],[4,3],[6,3],[6,4]],"D":[[3,8],[4,8],[6,8]],"E":[[1,2],[1,3],[3,2],[3,3],[3,4],[4,1],[4,2],[4,3],[6,2],[6,3],[6,4],[7,1],[7,2],[7,3]],"G":[[6,2],[7,1],[7,2],[7,3]]},"text":"Dietrich had the firewood somewhere in his column: column 8 is his (R2C8, R3C8, R4C8, R6C8 or R8C8 – the kiln, the firewood and the crate block the rest). So Vilmos is not at R2C8, and R1C6 is in Annika’s column: <b>Vilmos is at R2C7.</b> Fergal was beside the bench (R8C6): R7C6 lies in Annika’s column and R8C7 in Vilmos’s, so <b>Fergal is at R8C5.</b> Rows 2, 5 and 8 and columns 5, 6 and 7 are now taken."},{"place":["B"],"cand":{"C":[[4,1],[4,3],[6,3],[6,4]],"D":[[4,8],[6,8]],"E":[[1,3],[4,1],[4,3],[6,3],[6,4],[7,1],[7,3]],"G":[[7,1],[7,3]]},"text":"Bertram sat on a stool and was the northernmost person in his area. The stool R5C2 is in Annika’s row. On the stool R6C4 he would be in the bottom row of the Throwing Room – but Corinna was in the same room, and everybody else there must be in a row below him: she would have nowhere to stand. <b>Bertram is at R3C2.</b> Corinna is in the Throwing Room below row 3, outside his column: R4C1, R4C3, R6C3 or R6C4."},{"place":["E","D"],"cand":{"C":[[6,4]],"G":[[7,1]]},"text":"Row 1: R1C6 is in Annika’s column, R1C2 in Bertram’s, R1C5 in Fergal’s – the only free square is R1C3 in the Shop. Who can stand in the Shop? Not Corinna (in the Throwing Room), not Dietrich (in column 8), not Gwendolyn (in the Yard): only Elodie. <b>Elodie is at R1C3.</b> The Kiln Hall needs a second person beside Vilmos – the murderer. Elodie is in the Shop, Corinna in the Throwing Room, Gwendolyn in the Yard: only Dietrich can be there, in column 8, and R2C8 is in Vilmos’s row. <b>Dietrich is at R4C8.</b>"},{"place":["C","G"],"cand":{},"text":"Column 3 is Elodie’s and row 4 Dietrich’s: of Corinna’s squares only R6C4 is left – <b>Corinna is at R6C4</b>, on the third stool. Gwendolyn takes the last free row and column: row 7 and column 1, <b>R7C1</b> in the Yard, beside the cart. Everyone is placed."},{"final":true,"text":"Case closed: Vilmos was alone in the Kiln Hall with the antiques dealer from the glazing course. <b>Dietrich is the murderer!</b>"}],"solver":{"rules":[],"occupiable":["stool","chair","bench","doormat"]},"verification":{"tool":"tools/murdoku_solver.py","unique":true,"guessFree":true,"checked":"2026-09-27"}}