Stage, wings, dressing rooms and an audience of alibis — the scene of the game’s guided first case. The Theatre Royal splits cleanly into public and backstage zones, so room testimony divides the cast fast.
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: Stage, Wings, Dressing, Pit, Foyer, Balcony, Workshop, Office, Bar.
14 features the testimonies point at: piano, harp, mirror, floor lamp, chest, armchair, sofa, painting, desk, crate, window, clock, carpet, round table — 8 block a square outright; 2 a suspect can sit on; 3 mounted on a wall edge, taking no square but anchoring "beside" claims; 1 flat underfoot, which a suspect can stand on.
The Theatre Royal has hosted 11 days of shared cases, first on 1 August 2026 and most recently on 3 September 2026. 235 investigations have been opened on it, and 56% ended in the right accusation. The fastest anyone has closed a case here is 0:10.
| Difficulty | Board | Rooms | Testimonies | Assumptions | Liar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| beginner | 5×5 | 3–4 | 6 | none | — |
| easy | 6×6 | 5 | 7 | none | — |
| medium | 7×7 | 5–6 | 10 | 0.5 | 50% |
| hard | 8–10×8 | 6–7 | 13 | 1.0 | 20% |
| expert | 9×9 | 7 | 19 | 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 Theatre Royal's own, measured over the 11 days it has hosted.
Days played in The Theatre Royal, each with its solved boards and a full walkthrough of how every case was cracked: 3 September 2026 · 31 August 2026 · 30 August 2026 · 29 August 2026 · 22 August 2026 · 19 August 2026.