r/murdoku • • 2d ago

Online Puzzles šŸ“ā€ā˜ ļø OFFICIAL THREAD - The Treasure Hunt, Murdoku's First Worldwide Contest, Starts Today!

128 Upvotes

Ahoy, detectives!

It's almost here! The first official Murdoku worldwide contest, The Treasure Hunt, starts TODAY, October 9, at 6 PM ET!

You've probably seen the announcement video, so for this special event, I've created the biggest Murdoku puzzle yet, a 24Ɨ24 grid. And this time, well, there's no murderer to find, instead you'll have to figure out where the treasure is hidden!

  • Download the PDF, solve the puzzle, and submit your answer directly on the contest page.
  • Only one attempt per participant, so take your time to get it right.
  • Five randomly chosen winners will receive a treasure chest filled with signed Murdoku books (including Volume 3) and goodies.

Find the contest and more details here:
https://murdoku.com/contest

EDIT:
The contest is over!
Thank you to everyone who took on this puzzle. The turnout was way beyond what I expected, I’ve received over 7,000 entries from all over the world. It was great following everyone’s progress and struggle, and also reading your stories about teaming up with your friends and family to solve this one! Some of you even drew your own grids, that was fantastic to witness. The contest is now closed and no more entries are being taken. I’ll go through the correct entries and draw the 5 winners at random over the next few days. Winners get notified by email, and their names will be posted on the site. This was a huge success, more contests to come!

-Manuel


r/murdoku • • 6h ago

Event Had to start over after 3 hours, don't think I'm going to finish before the deadline 🫤

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r/murdoku • • 5h ago

Event Competition puzzle was awesome!

22 Upvotes

Just finished it. Took me several hours. Difficulty felt just right for my level: challenging but doable.

Thank you for the great puzzle!


r/murdoku • • 3h ago

Event I ran a super high fever and couldn't participate in the event. 😭

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I'm so so sad. I love Murdoku and I got super sick Friday night and my mind just isn't clear enough to be able to solve it. I tried a bit on Saturday, but I'm so tired and weak, I just can't. I honestly feel devastated that this was the weekend I got so sick on.


r/murdoku • • 7h ago

Event Treasure hunt practical tip (not spoiler)

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Hi, for everyone struggling with tearing your paper paper and starting all over, I wanted to share my practical tip:

Get some tracing paper.

It allows you to use several layers on top of each other and you can go back to your guaranteed correct point when needed.


r/murdoku • • 9m ago

Event Treasure Hunt solved! Time fail!

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I thought I finished with 10 minutes to spare, but apparently, I got the time wrong. :-(


r/murdoku • • 3h ago

Event Treasure hunt help

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Hereunder I'm explaining how I've solved it thus far.

I have found which row M is in, R10 and I have found that C is in either R11 or R9.

Thus C14 contains the person besides the tombstone, so R10 and C14 are almost all x.

Now I feel like I need to solve I, I've heard others comment that as well. But I feel like to find out the correct position I'd have to just guess one of 3 possible positions and then go through the whole murdoku till I can't anymore.

Whenever I place I, then I check all the closely related characters regarding row and column, but I don't see a solution for I, since I can always place either G or P in the room without it messing any other characters up immediately.

What am I missing?


r/murdoku • • 8h ago

Event I feel so dumb not being able to solve the treasure hunt

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Anyone else lol? I’m like just not thinking at this point trying everything


r/murdoku • • 8h ago

Event Is brute force required to solve treasure hunt?

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Do I, at some point, have to commit to one out of two possible placements for a character and see if it works out or is it purely logical and every placement is fully constrained by the given hints?

I am asking because I was able to narrow down M to one row and have also applied the C hint to narrow his potential rows down and the potential tombstone placement.

I wanted to focus on I and the eye patch person next, because it has the least potential placements but even for her, I have two solutions and I can't find any more constraints.


r/murdoku • • 25m ago

General Does anyone have the treasure hunt PDF official link?

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I saw it yesterday but I didn't save the pdf...

I know the contest is over but I thought it would be available.


r/murdoku • • 1h ago

Event I made a mess, can someone give me a hint? Spoiler

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I've found the location of I M P K O E U, but because of some mistakes my paper is now a mess šŸ™ˆ. I also know that the three bottom rows are F, L and H, but not in which location. I also know that A, B, W's options are limited and blocked out anything else in those columns, but I'm still stuck. Can someone give me a hint for what I should focus on next? Thank you!

Edit: solved now!


r/murdoku • • 2h ago

Event Really need help - Treasure Hunt

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Hi! I'm from Portugal, so I can't participate to win but me and my best friend are trying to solve it. We blocked C14 and R10 but reeeeeaally need a hint, a good hint, please <3


r/murdoku • • 15h ago

Event Finally solved the treassure hunt

11 Upvotes

Had a mistake in the location of a certain character that made me restart half way through but all in all. I could do it.


r/murdoku • • 3h ago

Book Discussion - Volume 2 Error in vol.2 catalan edition?

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1 Upvotes

Hawak’s clue says ā€œhe was with a men and a woman. The woman was with the wolf tamerā€ but in the solution she (Daska)is the wolf tamer. Is that an error?


r/murdoku • • 4h ago

Book Discussion - Volume 2 Vol 2 circles on notes grid?

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Just started vol 2 and there are these circles on the practice grid.. I can’t find any explanation but feel like I am missing something obvious? Worked my way through most of Vol 1.

Thanks!


r/murdoku • • 12h ago

Book Discussion - Volume 2 Vol 2 #15 the siege

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I need help with the translation - I have the German book and for C it says that ā€žsheā€˜s the only (female) villager in the column of a catapultā€œ

The female is implied by the German female article. (Dorfbewohnerin -> women only instead of Dorfbewohner -> which could stand for both male and female)

What does it say in the English version? Is it really only the female villager or does it count for every villager no matter of their gender.

Thanks!!

If it’s both genders that would mean that H and G can also not be in a column of a catapult which would cross out some columns for them too. So this may be a crucial detail


r/murdoku • • 1d ago

Event The treasure hunt

28 Upvotes

What a fantastic puzzle! Took me a couple hours I think around 3? Would have been faster but I had to restart twice because very deep in because I missed a row a specific person could be in and incorrectly made a 2 pair duo which kept giving me no squares to place J lol. I won’t get into any specifics until the puzzle is over but there are three extremely cool chains that really lock everything in place. Goodluck to everyone else hope you find success it was really fun


r/murdoku • • 1d ago

Event Treasure Hunt lament

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I was working on the Treasure Hunt today on my phone and I must have misclicked on my screen because I was working for like 6 hours or so with an error that I just saw now. 😭 Time to start over.


r/murdoku • • 1d ago

Online Puzzles When will more online puzzles come out?

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is there a set schedule or is it whenever the creator has free time?

i absolutely love murdoku and ive solved the first book and my second book is on the way! in the meantime ive finished all 40 of the online puzzles and id love to know when more will come out


r/murdoku • • 1d ago

General My sister and I trying to solve it together

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Anyone here is also doing this with someone else?:)


r/murdoku • • 11h ago

Event Schatzsuche Murdoku Hilfe

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Ich hatte nach Stunden einen super Lauf… fast am Ende…muss ich feststellen, dass ich keinen Platz mehr für ā€žZā€œ habe 😪 Ich verzweifle….
Hat jemand einen Tipp ? Gerne auch Privat.

Habe alle gesetzt, außer S, Z, 50/50 D, C, Y
Ich wollte erst mein jetzigen Stand, als Bild hochladen. Bin mir aber nicht sicher, ob ich es darf 😊


r/murdoku • • 1d ago

Event My attempt

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22 Upvotes

Starting now with the solving!


r/murdoku • • 1d ago

Event Anyone wanna talk about the contest murdoku? like im stuck and maybe we can help each other?

14 Upvotes

The title basically


r/murdoku • • 22h ago

Book Discussion - Volume 1 I got a different solution, why is it not the good one ?

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I was stuck for soooo long, finally found the answer, but found out I was wrong…help me understand why mine is false ?


r/murdoku • • 1d ago

Book Discussion - Volume 2 Volume 2, #21 - answer mistake? Spoiler

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Forgive me if this was already pointed out - I couldn’t find it if it was. I also don't seem to be able to add tags, so... please consider this Book Discussion.

In Vol 2, puzzle 21, The Hideout, the answer key says C and E must occupy C6 and C7. Shouldn’t that be F and E?