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Murder Mystery Sudoku

(Published on 2. November 2022, 16:36 by vitaminz)

Normal Sudoku rules apply.

The digits from 1 to 9 have gathered for a murder mystery party in a 9-room house. Each of the 3x3 boxes in the grid represents one room in the house where a fictitious murder has taken place. The murderer and the victim must be adjacent to each other in each room (including diagonally).

A digit always faces the same direction such that if it were in the center of the grid, it would look toward the box named after it under standard box ordering (i.e. 1 faces NW [↖], 2 faces N [↑], etc. and 5 faces nowhere). Digits can see in their direction until the wall of the room (within that 3x3 box).

None of the digits in the room (3x3 box) can see the murderer, no digits other than the murderer can see the victim, and no bystanders can see between the murderer and victim (which only matters for diagonals - as an example, the digit 1 in r6c2 cannot murder a digit in r5c3 because the 9 in r4c1 looks between them, even though the 9 sees neither r6c2 nor r5c3).

Each row, column, and 3x3 box contains exactly 1 murderer and 1 victim (not necessarily in the same rooms for rows and columns). Each digit gets to be both a murderer and a victim at some point during the evening.

Determine the location of each digit in each room as well as the identities of the murderer and victim in each room.

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Solution code: The murderer in each box in box order followed by the digits of row 1.

Last changed on on 2. November 2022, 19:37

Solved by tryote, Mrtn, marcmees, QuiltyAsCharged, lmdemasi, ThePedallingPianist, Ratfinkz, Scojo, juggler, marty_sears, widjo
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Last changed on 14. April 2024, 03:56

on 14. April 2024, 00:29 by Ratfinkz
Stunning puzzle!
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Thanks! I appreciate you keeping everyone on track :) -VitaminZ

Last changed on 10. April 2024, 23:21

on 22. March 2024, 22:17 by QuiltyAsCharged
This was cool! Very original puzzle concept, with interesting logic throughout

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Thanks, Quilty! Been a while since I've thought about this one :) -VitaminZ

Last changed on 3. November 2022, 11:21

on 3. November 2022, 11:14 by marcmees
I'm not sure that counts as a murder + not adjacent to its victim. :-)

on 3. November 2022, 09:34 by Dandelo
@marcmees: suicide?

Last changed on 3. November 2022, 12:40

on 3. November 2022, 07:46 by marcmees
q: how can 5 be a murderer once if he doesn't face any direction? from the explication I get that the murderer sees his victim.
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A: the murderer CAN (but does not have to) see the victim. Perhaps a better way of phrasing those constraints would be something like “neither the victim nor the bystanders in the room can see the murderer, the victim, or the space between them.” (vitaminz)

Last changed on 3. November 2022, 12:42

on 3. November 2022, 07:06 by tryote
Loved this!!
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Thank you! (VitaminZ)

Difficulty:4
Rating:N/A
Solved:11 times
Observed:8 times
ID:000BVN

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