The Grand Final

Tempodrom, Berlin · the GeoGuessr World Cup final, 2026 · the break before the deciding game · Difficulty: Inspector 8 · 16×16

Berlin, the Tempodrom, the grand final of the GeoGuessr World Cup. Debre has come back from 0–2 to level the match, and before the deciding fifth game there is a short break: the players leave the stage, the casters ask for water, and in the Hungarian corner Zeneszerzo, Konti and Jónás watch the chat explode. When the stage manager calls everybody back, Viktor, the broadcast technician, is lying dead in the Tech Zone. During the break he had spotted somebody in the hall whispering to one side over the phone – and he had told the wrong person. Nobody saw anything: every eye was on the big screen, where the replay of the fourth game was running. Fifteen people say where they were during the break. The one who was alone with Viktor is the murderer.

Rules

Beside every exhibit of the Partner Expo – the Street View car, the bollard and the signpost – there was exactly one person from the players' camp.
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 big screens, the stage spotlights, the loudspeakers, the gaming PCs, the trophy, the microphones, the lockers, the luggage, the energy-drink fridges, the cameras, the Hungarian flag, the staircases, the desks, the ring light, the map pin banner, the mixing desk, the server rack, the projector, the bars, the vending machine, the plant, the ticket booth, the cones, the popcorn cart, the bistro table, the parasol, the table, the barrel, the Street View car, the bollard, the signpost, the tent and the lectern) cannot be occupied; the chairs, the sofas, the seats and the benches can. Two objects are the same kind of thing only when they have the same picture.

Statements

Zeneszerzo (host of the Hungarian co-stream): There was another caster in his area. He was not in a corner of his area.
Konti (Hungarian co-commentator): An energy-drink fridge was somewhere in his row.
Jónás (Hungarian co-commentator): He was beside the plant. There was no other man in his area.
Mia (host of the analyst desk): An energy-drink fridge was somewhere in her area.
Debre (the Hungarian finalist): A loudspeaker was somewhere in his row.
Blinky (the French finalist, 2024 champion): A bench was somewhere in his row.
Flora (Blinky's coach): Made no statement.
Hanna (the MC): A chair was somewhere in her area.
Oskar (the referee): Somebody else in his area was beside a microphone. A seat was somewhere in his column.
Noor (the anti-cheat officer): She was in the Backstage. Exactly one row south of her was a woman.
Timo (the lighting technician): A camera was somewhere in his area. He was with Elin.
Elin (the photographer): She was not in a corner of her area.
Ákos (a fan with a flag): He was the only man beside a camera. He was alone in his area.
Réka (a reporter): A bench was somewhere in her area.
Lotte (the sponsor's representative, host of the expo): She was right beside an area where nobody was.
Viktor (the broadcast technician): The victim. He was found in the Tech Zone, beside the mixing desk – alone with the murderer.

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