Murdle

What is Murdle?

Murdle is a daily murder-mystery logic puzzle by G. T. Karber. You investigate a fictional case alongside Deductive Logico, inspect suspect and weapon cards, and turn written evidence into relationships on a deduction grid. The aim is to build a consistent explanation of who committed the murder, with which weapon and at which location. Read the current case carefully: its categories and reasoning demands can vary.

The useful details often sit inside the cards. A clue can identify someone by a physical characteristic or refer to an object by its material rather than its name. Opening the relevant cards lets you translate that wording into a specific relationship. Murdle keeps those deductions visible in the notebook: a blank square is unresolved, a cross rules out a pairing, and a check records a match. In the default grid we checked, entering a check also crossed out competing positions in its row and column.

Some Murdle cases add suspect statements. These require a different approach from the confirmed evidence: the instructions can specify that the innocent tell the truth and the murderer lies. Test one possible liar at a time and look for contradictions instead of accepting every sentence as a fact. Once the evidence supports a complete accusation, choose the requested answers and submit. The resolution reveals the outcome, and a successful case displays a completion time and a sharing option.

Murdle Rules

• Read the current case setup and the categories it asks you to solve; do not assume every day has the same grid size.
• In the standard suspect–weapon–location case, each suspect brought one weapon to one location, and the murderer is among those suspects.
• Inspect the cards when a clue refers to a characteristic, material or other detail instead of naming an item directly.
• Use the deduction grid to record impossible pairings and established matches. Your entries are notes, not confirmation that the reasoning is correct.
• When the case includes truth-and-lie statements, apply its stated rule for the guilty and innocent suspects while preserving the confirmed evidence.
• Select the requested suspect, weapon and location, plus any additional category shown, then use Make Your Accusation to reach the resolution.

Hypothetical deduction example, not a daily answer: if one suspect has exactly 1 of 3 weapons and evidence rules out 2, the remaining weapon must belong to that suspect. That match also rules the weapon out for the other suspects in the same one-to-one grid.

Murdle How to Play?

1. Read the case before making marks

• You'll see: A dated mystery, category tabs, cards and a Clues & Evidence section.
• You do: Read the setup and evidence, then open the relevant suspect, weapon or location cards.
• The game gives: Murdle expands the selected card to show its description and attributes; Set Card Down returns to the case.
• What you learn: The card details explain indirect clues, so names and illustrations alone may not be enough.

2. Build the deduction grid

• You'll see: Open Notebook and a grid connecting the case categories.
• You do: Open the notebook and click a square to mark an exclusion. Click again to record a match when the evidence supports it.
• The game gives: In the checked default controls, a first click shows a cross and a second shows a check; competing cells in that row and column are crossed out.
• What you learn: The grid organizes one-to-one relationships. An automatic cross follows your selected match and does not prove that match was correct.

3. Test statements when the case includes them

• You'll see: Suspect statements and instructions explaining who tells the truth and who lies.
• You do: Assume one suspect is guilty, treat that statement as false and the others as true, and compare the consequences with the evidence.
• The game gives: Murdle makes incompatible assignments easier to spot in the notebook; the HELP control explains this method.
• What you learn: A contradiction rejects the assumption. Keep your confirmed evidence separate while trying the next candidate.

4. Make and review your accusation

• You'll see: Selection controls for WHO, HOW and WHERE, with any additional field needed by the case.
• You do: Choose the combination supported by your deductions and press Make Your Accusation, then follow the resolution control.
• The game gives: Murdle confirmed the selected elements in the checked successful case, completed the story and displayed a solve time, next-puzzle countdown and share button.
• What you learn: The accusation submits your conclusion; the notebook is only a working aid. Review the full solution after finishing if you want to compare the reasoning.

Murdle Strategy & Tips

• Translate each indirect clue before entering it. In Murdle, a description such as a material or a physical attribute points you back to the cards. Identify the exact item first, then mark the relationship. Guessing from the illustration can send every later deduction in the wrong direction.
• Carry confirmed matches across the grid. If a suspect has an established weapon and location, those two items must also match each other in the standard one-to-one case. Check the corresponding category intersection rather than treating each small grid as an unrelated puzzle.
• Keep certainty separate from a trial assumption. In a statement case, write down which suspect you are currently testing as the liar. Preserve the original evidence and remove only the deductions that depended on a rejected assumption. Otherwise a leftover mark can make the next candidate look impossible too.
• Recheck the first unsupported mark when the grid contradicts itself. Two matches for one item, or no remaining match in a required row, can signal a mistaken inference. Automatic exclusions follow your checks, so trace them back to the check that created them before blaming the clue.
• Complete the argument before submitting. Explain to yourself why the suspect, weapon and location fit together and why the other possibilities fail. If the full case feels unfamiliar, use the official Mini entry for an introduction, then return to the daily mystery with the same evidence-first approach.