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Cressida was the only woman beside the music stand, and inside the Bandstand the only square beside it is R3C6 (its other neighbours lie on the Ceremony Lawn): <b>Cressida is at R3C6</b>, and row 3 is closed. Esme was the only one sitting in a chair, so nobody else is in a chair; Arabella had the wedding cake in her column, so column 7 is hers. Hannah was beside a round table, not in a chair: R1C8, R3C8 or R5C9, all in the Marquee – and R3C8 is in row 3. Somebody in her area was beside a chair: in the Marquee only R3C7, R3C8, R3C9, R4C9 and R6C9 are beside a chair, so outside row 3 that companion is at R4C9 or R6C9, and column 9 belongs to the companion. Hannah cannot be at R5C9, in that column: <b>Hannah is at R1C8</b>."},{"place":["B"],"cand":{"V":[[7,1],[7,3],[8,2]],"A":[[5,7],[7,7],[8,7],[9,7]],"D":[[7,4],[8,2],[8,4],[9,2]],"E":[[2,2],[2,4]],"F":[[7,5],[8,5],[9,4]],"G":[[4,1],[4,5]]},"text":"Esme was alone with a member of staff, and she sits in a chair. In the Marquee she would be one of three – with Hannah and Hannah’s companion, who is not in a chair – so she is not in the Marquee, and the member of staff with her is not Hannah but Geoffrey. Every chair outside the Marquee is on the Ceremony Lawn, so Esme and Geoffrey are alone there. Geoffrey was the southernmost person in his area, so he is south of Esme, whose chairs on the lawn are in rows 2 and 4 (row 3 is closed). He was neither on the aisle runner nor beside it, and row 5 of the lawn is just the runner and the two squares beside it. So Geoffrey is in row 4, at R4C1 or R4C5, and Esme in row 2 (R2C2 or R2C4). Bertie had a chair in his row; rows 2, 3 and 4 are taken, so he is in row 6. Hannah’s companion is at R4C9 or R6C9, and row 4 is Geoffrey’s: the companion is at R6C9, in Bertie’s row – <b>Bertie is at R6C9</b>, beside the chair R6C8."},{"place":["V"],"cand":{"A":[[5,7],[8,7],[9,7]],"D":[[8,2],[9,2]],"E":[[2,2],[2,4]],"F":[[8,5],[9,4]],"G":[[4,1],[4,5]]},"text":"Who can be alone with Vaughan in the Rose Garden? Cressida, Hannah and Bertie are placed elsewhere, Esme and Geoffrey are on the Ceremony Lawn, Arabella is in column 7 and Freddie in the Orchard – all the apple trees are there. So the only person who can be alone with Vaughan in the Rose Garden is Digby: <b>Digby is the murderer</b>. A chair was in his column, so in the Rose Garden he is at R7C4, R8C2 or R9C2. Column 3 still needs somebody: R6C3 is in Bertie’s row, the aisle runner is on the lawn (Esme sits in a chair, Geoffrey is at R4C1 or R4C5), and R9C3 suits neither Vaughan (it is not beside the fountain) nor Digby (column 3 has no chair). Only R7C3 is left: <b>Vaughan is at R7C3</b>."},{"place":["E","G"],"cand":{"A":[[5,7],[8,7],[9,7]],"D":[[8,2],[9,2]],"F":[[8,5]]},"text":"R7C4 is in Vaughan’s row, so Digby is at R8C2 or R9C2: column 2 is his, and Esme takes the other chair in row 2 – <b>Esme is at R2C4</b>. Column 1 needs somebody too, and it runs only through the Ceremony Lawn and the Rose Garden. In the Rose Garden only Vaughan and Digby are, in columns 3 and 2; on the lawn Esme sits in a chair, and column 1 has none. So column 1 is Geoffrey’s, and he is in row 4: <b>Geoffrey is at R4C1</b>."},{"place":["F","D","A"],"text":"Freddie was the only man beside an apple tree: R7C5, R7C7, R8C5, R8C7, R8C9 or R9C4 (the other squares beside the trees lie in Cressida’s and Hannah’s columns). Row 7 is Vaughan’s, column 7 Arabella’s, column 9 Bertie’s and column 4 Esme’s: <b>Freddie is at R8C5</b>. Row 8 is his, so <b>Digby is at R9C2</b>, sitting on the bench – alone with Vaughan in the Rose Garden. Arabella, with the wedding cake in her column, takes the last free row: <b>Arabella is at R5C7</b>, on the Dance Floor. Everyone is placed."},{"final":true,"text":"Case closed: Vaughan was alone in the Rose Garden with the groom’s brother and best man. <b>Digby is the murderer!</b>"}],"solver":{"rules":[],"occupiable":["aisle","bench","chair"]},"verification":{"tool":"tools/murdoku_solver.py","unique":true,"guessFree":true,"checked":"2026-09-28"}}