Murdle: Volume 1

Murdle is a logic grid puzzle book where you're playing as “Deductive Logico” solving murders via the puzzles. This one is made up of suspect, location, weapon and motive to go with the murder mystery theme and in the end you have to declare who did it, where, how and why! Almost like a fun combination of Clue (or Cluedo) and logic puzzles.

The book is made up of puzzles from their website, where, like Wordle, there is a daily puzzle to solve. The interactivity of the website adds a cool layer to the whole thing as well. If you're not sure how it all works, you can check out their website which will make you wanna try more of their puzzles.

What's unique about Murdle is that they take the classic logic grid puzzle but also add another layer. For example, you might need to figure out who's lying or solve a cipher to fully solve a puzzle. There's also further details about each of the suspects/locations/weapons that you'll have to check against as you're going through the clues.

I also really appreciate that there are hints provided in the back of the book since that means that you don't have to spoil the whole answer if you're stuck on a puzzle.

I liked the level of difficulty this set of puzzles provided; the difficulty increases in each section. Even though I'm super familiar with puzzles of this kind, and puzzles in general, there were some that stumped me or ones that I solved wrong.

One advice I have though is to get this book in physical format since you're gonna wanna flip the pages back and forth and really write and erase things.

Overall a very fun way to pass the time and a good twist on logic grid puzzles!

Thank you to St Martin's Press and NetGalley for the eARC!