Enclosures, keepers, and a public that scattered when the whistle blew. The Zoo’s distinctive features anchor spatial claims strongly — an ideal scene for practicing the room squeeze.
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: Entrance, Gift shop, Café, Aviary, Lion den, Bear pit, Elephant yard, Penguin pool, Main path.
12 features the testimonies point at: elephant, penguin, bear, crocodile, boulder, shrub, tree, bench, crate, floor lamp, desk, window — 11 block a square outright; 1 mounted on a wall edge, taking no square but anchoring "beside" claims.
The Zoo has hosted 8 days of shared cases, first on 12 August 2026 and most recently on 17 September 2026. 107 investigations have been opened on it, and 79% 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 | 0.5 | — |
| hard | 8–10×8 | 6–7 | 12 | 1.0 | — |
| expert | 9–10×9 | 7–8 | 15 | 1.5 | 25% |
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 Zoo's own, measured over the 8 days it has hosted.
Days played in The Zoo, each with its solved boards and a full walkthrough of how every case was cracked: 31 August 2026 · 27 August 2026 · 25 August 2026 · 23 August 2026 · 17 August 2026 · 14 August 2026.