The Blue Orchid
You can stand on
- bare floor
- bench
- sun lounger
- stool
- barrel
- cart
- counter
- fountain
- plant
- table
- tree
Larkspur Glasshouses
Larkspur's rare blue orchid flowered for the first time in forty years. The collector who came to buy it was found dead the same afternoon.
The victim: an orchid collector. Took the last square, alone with the murderer.
Who did it?
Case closed
Biscuit’s hints
How to play
- One person per row and one per column, the victim included.
- People stand only on open squares (the map key shows which). Anything else blocks the square.
- Every clue is true.
- The victim took the last square: the row and column left over.
- Exactly one suspect was in the victim’s room, and that suspect did it.

From Alibi Squares: Murder Mystery Logic Puzzles
60 cozy floor-plan whodunits, from training cases to 9 × 9 experts, with Biscuit’s hints and full solutions.
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