Murdoku maker
Make your own murdoku
A murdoku with the people you know, in the rooms you know. Pick the suspects, draw the floor plan, and the maker writes the clues and checks that exactly one culprit comes out. Then share it with one link.
How to make a murdoku
- Pick the suspectsType the names of your friends, your class or your colleagues and draw each one: hair, skin, glasses, jumper. Who will be the victim?
- Draw the floor planPick a place (home, school, office, camp, farm, theatre, aeroplane) or draw your own rooms, with the furniture that is really there.
- The maker does the restA card of clues per suspect, from easy to extra hard. Every murdoku is solved by the computer: one answer, never two.
- Share or print itSend the link to the group chat, put it on the classroom screen, or print it on A4. Everybody plays on their own phone.
Why this murdoku maker
- Free, with no account and no app store: it works in any browser.
- Always exactly one answer, checked by the computer.
- Four levels: easy, medium, hard and extra hard.
- Your own faces on the cards and your own rooms on the plan.
- For home, the classroom, a birthday, a team day or a puzzle night.
- In English and in Dutch.
Questions people ask
Can I make my own murdoku?
Yes. With the murdoku maker you pick the suspects, the victim and the rooms, and the clues are written for you. In a few minutes you have a murdoku to share or print.
How hard will my murdoku be?
You choose: easy for children and beginners, extra hard for anyone who puzzles every day. More suspects and rooms make for a longer puzzle.
Is the answer always right?
Yes. Every murdoku is solved by the computer before you share it. There is exactly one way to place everybody, and so exactly one culprit.
Can I make a murdoku for my class?
Yes, that is what it was made for: your pupils' names, your own classroom and corridor. Print it on A4, put it on the board, or play it live with the whole group.
Is MurdX a murdoku maker?
Yes. MurdX is an independent maker for puzzles in the murdoku style: you make your own, with your own people and rooms. It is not the official Murdoku, which is Manuel Garand's, at murdoku.com.
Is this the official murdoku?
No. Murdoku was created by Manuel Garand (murdoku.com). MurdX is an independent murdoku maker, not affiliated with the makers of Murdoku.
The murdoku app, free on your phone
Play on your phone too: put the site on your home screen and the murdoku of the day is one tap away. No app store needed.