Murder on rails: compartments in a row, a corridor everyone swears they never left. The Night Express is the most column-shaped scene in the game — beside-claims chain hard here, and one placed passenger often forces the entire carriage.
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: Locomotive, Saloon, Dining, Sleeper, Baggage, Observation, Corridor, Galley, Platform.
14 features the testimonies point at: crate, chest, bed, floor lamp, clock, armchair, wooden chair, sofa, desk, mirror, stove, window, painting, carpet — 6 block a square outright; 3 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 Night Express has hosted 12 days of shared cases, first on 24 July 2026 and most recently on 27 August 2026. 128 investigations have been opened on it, and 56% 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 | 8 | none | — |
| medium | 7×7 | 5–6 | 9 | none | — |
| hard | 9–10×8 | 6 | 12 | 1.0 | — |
| expert | 9×9 | 8 | 16 | 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 Night Express's own, measured over the 12 days it has hosted.
Days played in The Night Express, each with its solved boards and a full walkthrough of how every case was cracked: 27 August 2026 · 24 August 2026 · 23 August 2026 · 20 August 2026 · 19 August 2026 · 17 August 2026.