Workbenches, a car lift, tool walls: the Repair Shop is cramped, cluttered and blocked. Heavy furniture eats squares — elimination does most of the placing before deduction names the killer.
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: Repair Bay, Car Lift, Paint Booth, Parts Room, Office, Waiting Room, Yard, Pit Lane, Storeroom.
12 features the testimonies point at: car, oil slick, crate, wooden chair, computer, cabinet, radio, television, potted plant, floor lamp, window, wooden table — 9 block a square outright; 1 a suspect can sit on; 1 mounted on a wall edge, taking no square but anchoring "beside" claims; 1 flat underfoot, which a suspect can stand on.
The Repair Shop has hosted 13 days of shared cases, first on 3 August 2026 and most recently on 15 September 2026. 285 investigations have been opened on it, and 63% ended in the right accusation. The fastest anyone has closed a case here is 0:09.
| Difficulty | Board | Rooms | Testimonies | Assumptions | Liar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| beginner | 5×5 | 3–4 | 6 | none | — |
| easy | 6×6 | 4–5 | 7 | none | — |
| medium | 7×7 | 5–6 | 12 | 0.5 | 50% |
| hard | 8×8 | 6–7 | 11 | 1.0 | — |
| expert | 9×9 | 7–8 | 18 | 2.0 | 100% |
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 Repair Shop's own, measured over the 13 days it has hosted.
Days played in The Repair Shop, each with its solved boards and a full walkthrough of how every case was cracked: 15 September 2026 · 1 September 2026 · 28 August 2026 · 27 August 2026 · 22 August 2026 · 21 August 2026.