A trail, a ridge, a camp — and a party that came back one short. The Hiking Trip trades walls for open ground: sparse blockers, wide rows, and neighbour testimony that has to be squeezed for everything it holds.
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: Trailhead, Summit, Forest Path, Campsite, Riverbank, Meadow, Cave, Ranger Station, Overlook.
10 features the testimonies point at: tent, campfire, boulder, shrub, tree, bear, crate, floor lamp, desk, radio — 10 block a square outright.
The Hiking Trip has hosted 14 days of shared cases, first on 3 August 2026 and most recently on 1 September 2026. 95 investigations have been opened on it, and 62% ended in the right accusation. The fastest anyone has closed a case here is 0:08.
| Difficulty | Board | Rooms | Testimonies | Assumptions | Liar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| beginner | 5×5 | 3 | 7 | none | — |
| easy | 6×6 | 4–5 | 7 | none | — |
| medium | 7–8×7 | 5–6 | 9 | 0.4 | — |
| hard | 8–10×8 | 6–7 | 11 | 1.0 | — |
| expert | 9–10×9 | 7–8 | 14 | 1.7 | 33% |
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 Hiking Trip's own, measured over the 14 days it has hosted.
Days played in The Hiking Trip, each with its solved boards and a full walkthrough of how every case was cracked: 1 September 2026 · 31 August 2026 · 26 August 2026 · 25 August 2026 · 23 August 2026 · 21 August 2026.