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Games Like Murdle — Murder Mystery Logic Puzzles to Play Next
Finished every Murdle and want more? Here are murder-mystery logic puzzles in the same spirit — daily web games, murder sudoku books, logic grids and case files — and what makes each one different.
Murdle turned the old logic grid into a murder mystery and made a lot of people fall in love with deduction puzzles. If you've solved your way through the books and the daily puzzle and you're wondering what to play next, this list is for you.
We make one of the games below (it's clearly marked), so we've tried to be useful rather than salesy: each entry says what it is, how it plays and who it suits.
Quick comparison
| Game | Format | Daily? | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Murdle books | Logic grids with a story | Daily puzzle online + books | The original experience |
| Clues by Sam | Who's innocent, who's criminal | Yes, web | A 10-minute daily habit |
| Murdoku | "Murder sudoku" on floor plans | Books | Sudoku fans |
| Room for Murder (ours) | Murder sudoku on floor plans | Yes, free web + book | Daily play and a printable book |
| Classic logic grids | Pure logic grids | Many sites | Practising the grid technique |
| Case files | One big elimination puzzle | No | A long evening, solo or as a couple |
1. More Murdle, if you haven't run out yet
It's worth checking you've found them all: alongside the first collection there's More Killer Puzzles, The School of Mystery, The Case of the Seven Skulls and the Murdle Jr. books for younger solvers. G. T. Karber's daily puzzle is still the purest form of the idea: suspects, weapons, locations, a grid and a handful of clues.
2. Clues by Sam
A daily web puzzle that went viral for good reason. You get a grid of people; each revealed person gives you a clue about who is a criminal and who is innocent, and you work out the rest by pure deduction. It shares Murdle's best quality — every step is earned — in a format that takes ten minutes over coffee.
Play it if: you want a daily logic habit with a light detective flavour.
3. Murdoku
Manuel Garand's Murdoku books (from Puzzlewright Press in the US and Penguin in the UK) take a different route to the same pleasure: each case is a floor plan, the suspects have to be placed one per row and column, and the clues tell you where people stood. It's often described as sudoku crossed with a murder mystery, and there are already themed volumes such as Back in Time and Around the World.
Play it if: you like sudoku and want a story attached.
4. Room for Murder (our game)
Full disclosure: this one is ours. Room for Murder is also a floor-plan "murder sudoku" — place every suspect on a cosy top-down plan, one per row and column, nobody on solid furniture, and find who was alone in a room with the victim — but with a free new case every day on this site, a lying-killer case every Sunday, and a printable book of 80 more. Every case is solver-checked to have exactly one answer reachable by logic alone.
Room for Murder Daily
A new floor-plan murder mystery every morning: place the suspects, find who was alone with the victim. No sign-up, works on phones.
Play today's case
Room for Murder
80 floor-plan murder mysteries in five chapters, from cosy cottages to a lying-killer finale — the book behind this site.
Solo or together
See it on EtsyPlay it if: you want a free daily floor-plan mystery, or a printable book you can solve with a pencil.
5. Classic logic grid puzzles
If what you love about Murdle is the grid itself, there's a whole world of classic logic grid puzzles on puzzle websites and in puzzle magazines. They drop the murder story but give you endless practice at the technique: mark the impossible, find the forced pairs, carry the consequences across the grid.
Play it if: you want to get faster at the core skill.
6. Murder mystery case files
Case files are the long-form cousin of Murdle: one big puzzle — hundreds of records, a dozen clues — that you work through over an evening, crossing out everyone who couldn't have done it until a single name is left. Physical subscription boxes such as Hunt A Killer go big on props; printable case files are cheaper and arrive instantly.
The Cloakroom Killer
Christmas Eve 1929: 800 coats, 12 clues and one killer. A logic-elimination puzzle for a cosy evening.
1–4 solvers
See it on EtsyPlay it if: you'd rather have one deep mystery than many small ones.
How to choose
- Ten minutes a day? Clues by Sam or our daily Room for Murder case.
- Sudoku fan? A murder sudoku: Murdoku or Room for Murder.
- Love the grid? Classic logic grid puzzles.
- A whole evening, maybe with someone else? A case file.
We make the games mentioned in this guide — that's why we know them well. Links to Etsy go to our own shop, Midnight Motive.
Murdle, Murdoku, Clues by Sam, Hunt A Killer and other product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Room for Murder is an independent game and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.