Katadoku Escape · Case 1
The mansion intruder
Difficulty level: Easy
Someone broke into an old mansion at night and escaped before the police arrived. They passed through 8 of its 9 rooms and used several objects along the way. Now we need to piece together the path they took.
Can you uncover their escape route?
Your mission
Reconstruct the intruder’s route to the Secret exit in the Entrance hall. Number the rooms from 1 to 8 in the order they were visited. One room was never visited.
- Each room may be visited only once.
- The route may continue to any adjacent room, including diagonally adjacent rooms.
- On reaching the Trapdoor in the Greenhouse, the route continues directly to the Dungeon through the secret passage.
- The route ends in the Entrance hall, where the Secret exit is located.
Route areas
Library, Bedroom, Archives, Kitchen, Entrance hall, Drawing room, Dungeon, Gallery, Greenhouse.
Clues
- Only one room had been visited before the Key was picked up.
- The only unvisited room is in the same column as the Key, but is not near it.
- Exactly two rooms were visited between the Key and the Trapdoor.
- After emerging from the Staircase in the Dungeon, the intruder visited the Kitchen before escaping.
- Exactly one room was visited between the Archives and the Greenhouse.
- The Library was visited before the Archives.
- The Kitchen was visited neither before the Key was picked up nor immediately afterwards.
- The Library and the Kitchen were not visited consecutively.