Katadoku Detective · Case file 2
The secret of San Damián Abbey
Difficulty level: Medium
On a cold winter night, nine members of the community went down to the old crypt of San Damián Abbey. During the night, one of them was attacked beside the ancient altar and left injured. Someone among those present was responsible.
Who attacked whom, and which object incriminates them?
Your mission
Place the nine people and the three objects in the chambers of the crypt by following the clues.
- Each chamber is occupied by one person and may contain at most one of the three objects.
- The person responsible was in chamber 5.
- The object in chamber 5 is the one that incriminates the person responsible.
- The victim was in chamber 7.
People and objects
People: Anselmo, Baltasar, Eusebio, Fabián, Gaspar, Hilario, Isidoro, Leandro, Mateo.
Objects: Chalice, Dagger, Reliquary.
Clues
- Hilario and Fabián are in opposite corners.
- Eusebio is between Hilario and Leandro.
- Gaspar and Anselmo are in the same row, with one chamber between them.
- Leandro is immediately north of Anselmo.
- Isidoro is between Baltasar and Fabián.
- The Chalice is immediately north of Anselmo.
- The Reliquary is further down than Eusebio, in the same column and with one chamber between them.
- Anselmo is immediately east of the Dagger and near Mateo.
How to read the clues
- Near / next to: any of the 8 adjacent squares, including diagonals.
- Between: in the same row, column or diagonal, with exactly one square in between.
- North, south, east, west, north-east, north-west, south-east and south-west: always the immediately adjacent square in that direction.
- Corner: positions 1, 3, 7 or 9.
- Opposite corners: the pairs 1 ↔ 9 and 3 ↔ 7.