Logic mystery games to play next
If you like a mystery you can solve rather than just watch, these are the games we play too. Every pick asks you to deduce, not to guess.
Murdle, G.T. Karber's series of murder mystery logic puzzles, turned the old logic grid into a daily habit for a lot of people. Once you have worked through a book, the question is what to play next. Here is what we would hand a friend.
Sudoku Murder
Daily web puzzle and app for iPhone and Android
Our own game. Instead of a grid of suspects and weapons, you get a floor plan: place every person one per row and column, and the one alone with the victim did it. A new case every day, free.
Murdle
Puzzle books and daily online puzzle
Logic grid mysteries with suspects, weapons and locations, plus a story that runs through each book. The format everyone else is compared to.
Clues by Sam
Daily web puzzle
A grid of people, each either innocent or criminal, and clues you unlock one by one. Short, strict and very satisfying.
Logic grid puzzles
Books and sites
The classic: a grid, a list of statements and one consistent answer. Many puzzle magazines and sites publish them daily.
The Case of the Golden Idol
PC, console and mobile game
You look at a frozen scene and fill in who did what with words you find in it. Deduction first, no hand-holding.
Return of the Obra Dinn
PC and console game
A ship, a missing crew and a notebook to fill in: the name and fate of every person aboard, confirmed three at a time.
Her Story
PC and mobile game
A database of police interview clips that you search by keyword to work out what really happened.
The zebra puzzle
Classic logic puzzle
Five houses in a row, five owners, and a list of facts about who lives where. Solved by elimination, and the ancestor of most logic grids.
How we chose
Each pick has one correct answer you can prove from the clues. We left out games where the mystery solves itself as you click through.