The Aquarium

Bluewater Aquarium · closing time · the last feeding · Difficulty: Detective 5 · 8×8

Closing time at the Bluewater Aquarium. The last visitors are still wandering between the tanks when the lights of the Shark Tunnel go out for a minute – and when they come back, Viola, the head aquarist, lies dead on the tunnel floor. Seven people were still inside: four visitors and three members of staff. One of them is the killer. Read every statement, find everyone’s square on the floor plan and unmask the murderer – alone with Viola in the Shark Tunnel.

Rules

1. Every row and every column holds exactly one person. As soon as you place someone, cross out their whole row and column.
2. “Beside” = directly left, right, above or below, and in the same area. Squares with objects (tanks, the touch pool, tables, counters, shelves…) cannot be occupied; the benches and the chairs can. A corner of an area is a square of that area with two outer sides.
3. Directions refer to rows and columns, not to the same line: “exactly one row south of him was a woman” = the person in the row directly below is a woman, in any column.
4. The murderer was alone with the victim: nobody else was in that area.

Statements

• Abel (biology student): He was in the Jellyfish Hall, but not in a corner.
• Britta (photographer): She was beside a bench.
• Caleb (tourist): He was beside a table.
• Doris (travel blogger): She was in the Café, but not in a corner.
• Emil (ticket clerk): He was beside a shelf. Exactly one row south of him was a woman.
• Fanny (café barista): She was sitting on a chair.
• Gustav (tank diver): He was beside the touch pool.
• Viola (head aquarist): The victim. She was found in the Shark Tunnel – alone with the murderer.

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