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The Mountain Hut

Eagle’s Rest hut · a snowstorm · the night is long · Difficulty: Detective 5 · 8×8

A snowstorm has cut off the Eagle’s Rest mountain hut for the night. Seven guests and staff sit out the storm by the stove – and when the warden, Valdemar, goes to fetch dry boots from the Drying Room, he does not come back: he is found dead among the skis. Seven people were in the hut: four hikers 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 Valdemar in the Drying Room.

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 (the stove, tables, the locker, skis, boots…) cannot be occupied; the bunks, the benches, the armchair and the stool 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: “north of Gisela” = in a row further up, in any column; “exactly one row north of him was a man” = the person in the row directly above is a man, in any column.
  4. The murderer was alone with the victim: nobody else was in that area.

Statements

  • Anton (hiker): He was sitting on a bench.
  • Berta (hiker): There was a man in her area.
  • Corbinian (climber): He was beside the drying rack, in a corner of his area.
  • Dagmar (birdwatcher): She was in a corner of her area.
  • Erika (cook): She was beside the stool. She was north of Gisela.
  • Fritz (mountain guide): He was beside a bench. Exactly one row north of him was a man.
  • Gisela (ski instructor): She was in the Kitchen.
  • Valdemar (hut warden): The victim. He was found in the Drying Room – alone with the murderer.

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