Hot Chestnuts

December 11 · Medium · 7 × 7
You can stand on
  • bare floor
  • armchair
  • bench
  • chair
  • floor cushion
  • rug
  • stool
Blocked
  • barrel
  • easel
  • pile of presents
  • rocking horse
  • snowman
  • market stall
  • table
  • Christmas tree

Gullhaven Christmas Market

The chestnut brazier glowed all day at the market. At dusk, the inspector who wanted to close the stalls was found dead.

New clue: Diagonally next to. Touching corners with that person, in the same room.

The victim: a market inspector. Took the last square, alone with the murderer.

Biscuit’s hints

How to play
  1. One person per row and one per column, the victim included.
  2. People stand only on open squares (the map key shows which). Anything else blocks the square.
  3. Every clue is true.
  4. The victim took the last square: the row and column left over.
  5. Exactly one suspect was in the victim’s room, and that suspect did it.

From Alibi Squares Christmas: An Advent Calendar of Murder Mysteries. Paperback and printable PDF editions.

Case closed

0:00Time
0Hints
1 dayStreak

From Alibi Squares Christmas: An Advent Calendar of Murder Mysteries. Paperback and printable PDF editions.