Clue Manor (Puzzleship)

Clue Manor sets its logic inside a country house. The floor plan is a small grid divided into rooms such as a hall, a salon, a ballroom and a gallery, with furniture in some cells. Each guest has left one statement. Some are exact, a row and column; others only narrow it to a room, a row or a column. Armchairs and sofas can be sat on, but every other object blocks its cell.

The key rule is that everyone stood in a different row and a different column. That rule does as much work as the statements: each guest you place removes a whole row and column from the others, so a guest who only remembered being in the library may, three placements later, have exactly one cell left. When every guest is placed, the Hider appears in the last open spot.

You can pencil candidate cells, drag clues onto the map, and tap a clue's underlined words to highlight the area they mean. Puzzleship publishes six numbered floor plans a day, from a 5 by 5 very easy plan with four guests to a 9 by 9 ultra hard one with eight, whose clues talk about diagonals, neighbours and who was alone in a room. The new set goes up at 13:00 UTC, though the page says midnight your time, and older days stay in the archive. It is free with ads, with a premium plan that removes them.

It suits players of Queens and Star Battle who enjoy one-per-row placement, and mystery fans who like Alibi or Murdle.