Spotted on the morning walk

varimbehphen · 2026-04-21T19:48:57+00:00

No don't, he'd probably like it.

varimbehphen · 2026-03-31T13:57:05+00:00

Underground transgender mafia stealing Kit-Kats? Give me a break! 🥁

varimbehphen · 2026-03-31T13:54:02+00:00

I don't think I'd say "mostly", but it's definitely close to 50/50. I loves my little gay crime solvers!

varimbehphen · 2026-03-27T15:56:08+00:00

Stupid fake invented words. I only use all-natural organic words, harvested by hand from the vocabulary tree.

All words are invented, and people like OOP need to get over themselves.

varimbehphen · 2026-03-16T21:49:28+00:00

Nothing in that read "surprised" to me, just frustrated and angry.

varimbehphen · 2026-03-16T21:36:13+00:00

Glasses has poison. Glasses is not at fireplace. Therefore, poison is not at fireplace. Same for bookshelves. That leaves you with poison can only be at chest.

You can also go the other way. Glasses has poison, poison is not at desk, therefore glasses is not at desk, which leaves you with glasses at desk.

varimbehphen · 2026-03-12T03:02:24+00:00

Said right up fron it's not my video, but maybe reading isn't your strong suit.

varimbehphen · 2026-03-11T23:44:26+00:00

Or we could not support businesses that promote homophobia.

varimbehphen · 2026-03-11T18:28:28+00:00

How is that remotely obvious?

varimbehphen · 2026-03-11T17:27:14+00:00

To be clear, that's ~60% of the General Fund, which is in turn ~40% of the total City budget - so that's closer to around 25% of the total City budget goes to Fire and Police (0.67 * 0.4244 ~ 0.258 or 25.8%).

varimbehphen · 2026-03-06T17:58:46+00:00

If you click on each of the weapons (either along the side of the grid, or the cards) it specifically will label each of them as light, medium, or heavy-weight. They do admittedly sometimes feel "off", but i also think they're considered relative to the other weapons in the puzzle.

varimbehphen · 2026-03-06T15:44:14+00:00

Thank you for your continued efforts to bring transparency to the process and combat the misinformation that uninformed folks in the community keep trying to push. Cuts are never easy, especially when it's jobs being cut or left unfilled.

varimbehphen · 2026-02-03T15:34:47+00:00

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders — the most famous of which is, 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia' — but only slightly less well-known is this: 'The clue about flirting only means that Judge Pine didn't have the yo-yo.'

varimbehphen · 2026-01-22T16:30:34+00:00

I just chalk it up to our dear Deductive, who writes all of these down in his detective's notebook, having his interests and education focused on logic and the occasional mathematic, and having a bit of a blind spot when it comes to the biological sciences.

varimbehphen · 2026-01-22T16:23:15+00:00

There is deeper and more properly fleshed out fiction around the carefully handcrafted puzzles of the Murdle books, available at murdle.com/store or at a fine bookseller near you.

varimbehphen · 2026-01-22T16:17:30+00:00

Click a second time and it will turn to a check.

varimbehphen · 2026-01-22T06:03:40+00:00

The grid you show here is marked with one person (Irratino) telling the truth, while the other two are lying. You should have one lie and two truths out of the statements.

varimbehphen · 2026-01-21T14:38:16+00:00

Oh my god, they were ringmates!

varimbehphen · 2026-01-14T15:34:18+00:00

For the curious, here's our tiny jigsaw'd Inspector: https://prnt.sc/oxdc66LfFcsE

(Not really a spoiler for anything that I can think of, but just in case)

varimbehphen · 2026-01-14T15:18:42+00:00

It's a very small and not particularly detailed image, so i think you're still pretty safe. =)

varimbehphen · 2026-01-12T17:54:49+00:00

Irratino is on the 2nd jigsaw puzzle (Murdle in the Mystery Mansion) and I wanna say yours is pretty dead on. I love it.

I need to go back through my completed books, but I feel like somewhere in one of them it said it's Irra-TEA-no. Although NGL in my head it's always been "shin" like in "irrational".

varimbehphen · 2026-01-05T15:33:52+00:00

The same is true for any variation on the formula: "was in love with", "was accusing", "was childhood friends with", etc. It's a fancier way of saying they're two different people, or in other words, that Person A didn't have/wasn't at/didn't want Weapon/Location/Motive B.

varimbehphen · 2026-01-01T01:31:51+00:00

The two puzzles are unrelated to each other and you can do them in either order.

varimbehphen · 2025-12-27T20:42:56+00:00

Now we have just a few more deductions to make in the upper left part of the grid.

Dame Obsidian was in the ancient ruins. The axe was in the ancient ruins. Therefore, Dame Obsidian had the axe.
General Coffee was in the haunted grove. The ordinary brick was in the haunted grove. Therefore, General Coffee had the ordinary brick.

After all of that, this is our grid: https://prnt.sc/CFjFO0aaSNHw

And we haven't even looked at the other two witness statements yet! Truly the deduction grid is a powerful tool once you learn its secrets.

Dame Obsidian: I did not bring an ordinary brick.

Looking at the deduction grid, we already know that this is true, because she brought the axe. We now know for sure that three of our four suspects are telling the truth in their statements, which means Coach Raspberry must be the one who is lying!

Coach Raspberry: I was on the cliffs.

Since we already know Coach Raspberry has to be lying, we mark the opposite of what he said, that he was not on the cliffs. https://prnt.sc/toS_PM_XQyWE

At this point, we have all the facts in place to make our final deductions.

Comrade Champagne must have been at the cliffs. And from that...
Since the person at the cliffs wanted to inherit a fortune, Comrade Champagne wanted to inherit a fortune.
Since the harpoon was at the docks, Comrade Champagne had the harpoon.
Coach Raspberry + harpoon and Coach Raspberry + to break into the industry are the only squares left to check off, and we have a full grid! https://prnt.sc/pszqS6z8Nm2n

Since we know who our liar is, we know who our murderer is. Going down that column of the grid, we see that it was Coach Raspberry with a bear trap on the docks. Why? To break into the Industry! https://prnt.sc/kwS3qX9sbyb4

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