Relationships in Murdle

Murdle, for the uninitiated, is a murder mystery-themed series of logic puzzles, starting with a website with daily procedurally-generated puzzles before getting a series of books collecting slightly more hand-crafted ones. Taking on the role of Deductive Logico, the player must solve a murder by filling out the "deduction grid" according to the clues, then figuring out which tuple is the who, what, where, and sometimes why of the case.

There are many clues that take the form of "X has a certain relationship with Y" where X and Y are about different topics (e.g. a certain suspect holding a grudge against someone who brought a specific weapon). To Deductive Logico, always about the facts, this merely indicates that X and Y are not associated with the same person, and thus the cell where they intersect gets marked "no." But someone has to care about what this says about the characters and their relationships with each other, and by gum it might as well be me.

This page goes over every puzzle in the covered books and gathers the clues in this format to map out the different relationships between all the murder-prone suspects that make up. (This WILL SPOIL the puzzles a little by showing who is associated with particular whats and wheres, but does not contain any full solutions. Any other major spoilers will be marked and can be viewed by highlighting the block of color.) Due to the nature of the website, clues from those puzzles are ignored.

This page is a work in progress.

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