A grand lobby, numbered doors, and a guest register full of half-truths. The Meridian’s layout rewards column thinking — corridors and doorways line suspects up, and a single furniture claim in a small suite can crack the whole floor.
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: Lobby, Bar, Suite, Office, Terrace, Kitchen, Ballroom, Cellar, Gallery.
15 features the testimonies point at: armchair, sofa, potted plant, clock, desk, bed, floor lamp, mirror, painting, window, piano, chest, carpet, round table, bonsai — 8 block a square outright; 2 a suspect can sit on; 1 long enough to lie on, covering two squares; 3 mounted on a wall edge, taking no square but anchoring "beside" claims; 1 flat underfoot, which a suspect can stand on.
The Hotel Meridian has hosted 12 days of shared cases, first on 4 August 2026 and most recently on 6 September 2026. 95 investigations have been opened on it, and 81% ended in the right accusation. The fastest anyone has closed a case here is 0:13.
| 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 | 10 | 0.2 | 20% |
| hard | 8–9×8 | 6–7 | 12 | 1.0 | 50% |
| expert | 9–10×9 | 7–8 | 15 | 1.8 | 38% |
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 Hotel Meridian's own, measured over the 12 days it has hosted.
Days played in The Hotel Meridian, each with its solved boards and a full walkthrough of how every case was cracked: 6 September 2026 · 31 August 2026 · 30 August 2026 · 29 August 2026 · 25 August 2026 · 18 August 2026.