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The Lighthouse: a murder mystery on the cliffs

The lamp turns every ten seconds, the tide covers the causeway twice a day, and the only way off the rock is the boat tied to the jetty. When the boat is still there in the morning, everyone who was on the rock is still there too.

The place

Cut off by the tide

The Lighthouse is the smallest world in the game. A narrow stairwell climbs to the lamp room, the keeper's cottage sits at the foot of the tower, and a cliff path runs down to the boathouse and the jetty. The storeroom holds paraffin and rope, and a walled garden tries to grow vegetables in the salt wind.

Visitors come for the view and stay because the sea will not let them leave. By the time the tide goes out, the case has to be solved.

How it plays

Two places here are outside: people are "on the Jetty" or "on the Cliff Path", never inside them, and the clues read that way. The outdoor squares carry rocks and bushes that block their cells, so the jetty and the path are often thin strips where only one or two positions are left. That makes them good places to start.

The stairwell is usually a narrow column. Once someone is placed in it, the rest of that column is closed to everyone else.

The rooms

Where everyone could have been

These are the rooms you will find at the Lighthouse. A case uses some of them, cut into a square board by thick walls, and a clue such as "She was in the Lamp Room" places a person inside one.

Lamp Room

Cottage

Boathouse

Jetty

Stairwell

Storeroom

Garden

Cliff Path

The cast

Everyone has a reason. One has an opportunity.

The same regulars travel from case to case, and any of them can be on the guest list here. A few you are likely to meet:

Portrait of Clara

Clara

The young reporter.

Portrait of Greta

Greta

The gardener who talks to her roses.

Portrait of Karim

Karim

The family lawyer.

Portrait of Oscar

Oscar

The antiques dealer.

Portrait of Sofia

Sofia

The chess prodigy.

Portrait of Yara

Yara

The young pharmacist.

Cases set here

Every case at the Lighthouse

No archive case has been set here yet. New cases arrive daily at midnight UTC, and the daily case rotates through every setting, so this one gets its turn too. Meanwhile, play today's case or browse the archive.

Today's case

Put it to work on a real case

A new murder at midnight UTC, free in the browser, with one arrangement that fits every clue.

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