Games like Murdle: daily mystery and deduction puzzles

For the closest feel, keep the crime. Alibi has you put every suspect and weapon back in the right room from true statements, and once everyone is placed the killer stands out. Mystery-o-Matic is a five-minute case where you work out the killer, the weapon and the time from the suspects' statements. Verdict offers three detective logic-grid cases a day at Easy, Medium and Hard, with extra short puzzles beside them. Clue Manor and Clue Raider move the story onto a map: you place every guest or explorer from what they say.

Clues by Sam is the best known of the suspect grids: twenty people to mark innocent or criminal, where every call must already be proven by the clues on the board. Puzzleship's Cluest works the same way with six grids a day from very easy to ultra hard.

If you enjoy the grid more than the story, Puzzleship's Logic Puzzles are the classic form behind Murdle, and Einstein Riddles is the Zebra Puzzle of houses, owners and pets. Cluemojis and Einstein Enigmas tell the same kind of riddle in emoji, which suits a phone. Like Murdle and Alibi, Clues by Sam grows harder from Monday to Sunday, so early in the week is a good time to start.

Newer cases worth a try: Daily Sleuth sends a numbered case file each morning with three suspects to sort out, and Daily Investigation pairs a suspect hunt with a puzzle about finding seven liars and then the killer.