Easels, models, and portfolios full of rivalries. The Art School’s studios divide the cast into small rooms — strong for room-testimony practice, vicious when the accomplice lies about which one.
One of Kludoku's 23 crime scenes. The rules never change — place every suspect from testimony alone, and whoever ends up beside the victim did it. What changes is the map, and the map is what decides whether a case falls open or fights back.
9 rooms: Atelier, Sculpture Hall, Life-Drawing Room, Kiln Room, Supply Closet, Gallery, Courtyard, Locker Room, Print Room.
13 features the testimonies point at: easel, statue, painting, bookshelf, wooden chair, desk, potted plant, crate, mirror, floor lamp, garbage can, boombox, bonsai — 10 block a square outright; 1 a suspect can sit on; 2 mounted on a wall edge, taking no square but anchoring "beside" claims.
The Art School has hosted 15 days of shared cases, first on 3 August 2026 and most recently on 16 September 2026. 320 investigations have been opened on it, and 73% ended in the right accusation. The fastest anyone has closed a case here is 0:11.
| Difficulty | Board | Rooms | Testimonies | Assumptions | Liar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| beginner | 5×5 | 3–4 | 6 | none | — |
| easy | 6×6 | 4–5 | 7 | none | — |
| medium | 7–8×7 | 5–6 | 9 | 0.6 | — |
| hard | 8–9×8 | 6–7 | 11 | 1.0 | 20% |
| expert | 9–10×9 | 7–8 | 14 | 2.2 | 40% |
Board is columns × suspects, and rooms is how many regions that grid is cut into — both set by the difficulty, not by the scene. Testimonies is how many statements it took before exactly one arrangement survived, assumptions the assume-and-test rounds needed once plain elimination ran dry, and liar the share of cases hiding an accomplice whose every word is false. Those three are The Art School's own, measured over the 15 days it has hosted.
Days played in The Art School, each with its solved boards and a full walkthrough of how every case was cracked: 16 September 2026 · 28 August 2026 · 26 August 2026 · 24 August 2026 · 21 August 2026 · 20 August 2026.