The Terrace Lamps

Mountain hotel above Ordino · Sant Joan’s night · two of four lamps were lit · Difficulty: Chief 9 · 10×10

Sant Joan’s night at a mountain hotel above Ordino. After the bonfire the owner, Vinyet, sent her guests and staff to hide in the terrace garden and went looking for them by the light of the garden lamps – exactly two of the four were burning. She never finished the game: she was found dead in the dark, alone with her killer. Everyone says whether the light found them.

Rules

1. The lamps: four lamps stand in the terrace garden, and exactly two of them were lit. A lit lamp lights every square of its row and its column, in all four directions, up to the first object (a fir tree, the hedge, a rock, the well, another lamp…). People do not block the light; the seats and the hot tub are lit like any other square.
2. Found or hidden: whoever hid on a lit square was found by Vinyet; whoever hid on an unlit square stayed hidden. Every statement says which.
3. In the dark: Vinyet and the murderer were both on unlit squares.
4. Every row and every column holds exactly one person. As soon as you place someone, cross out their whole row and column.
5. “Beside” = directly left, right, above or below, and in the same area. Squares with objects (the fir trees, the hedge, the rocks, the planters, the fountain, the lamps…) cannot be occupied; the benches, the loungers, the hammock, the swing and the hot tub can. A corner of an area is a square of that area with two outer sides.
6. Directions refer to rows and columns, not to the same line: “exactly one row north of him was a woman” = the person in the row directly above is a woman, in any column.
7. The murderer was alone with the victim: nobody else was in that area.

Statements

• Aina (ski instructor): Somebody else in her area was beside the bistro table. There was no bench in her area. Vinyet found her.
• Bernat (hotel manager): He and Dolors were on the same diagonal. He stayed hidden.
• Carles (mountain guide): The flagpole was somewhere in his row. He stayed hidden.
• Dolors (pharmacist): The wheelbarrow was somewhere in her column. Vinyet found her.
• Enric (notary): A planter was somewhere in his area. Exactly one row north of him was a woman. He stayed hidden.
• Fina (photographer): She was alone in her area. She stayed hidden.
• Guillem (cyclist): He was not on the Terrace. He stayed hidden.
• Hèctor (night porter): He was beside a lamp. He stayed hidden.
• Imma (cook): She was alone in her area. She was not on the Hot Tub Deck. Vinyet found her.
• Vinyet (the hotel owner): The victim. She was found at the Viewpoint, on an unlit square – alone with the murderer.

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