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Games Like Murdle

Done with today’s Murdle? These daily mystery and deduction games are free to play in your browser — no book required. Details checked in October 2026.

Disclosure: Clues & Culprits is our game. Everything else on this list is made by other people, and we describe it as fairly as we can.

What Murdle does well

Murdle, by G. T. Karber, turned the classic logic grid into a murder mystery you can solve with your morning coffee: who did it, with what, where, and why. Its puzzles are short, funny and fair, and the books took it far beyond the browser. The games below share some of that DNA — some are logic grids, some are suspect walls, some are spatial.

1. Clues & Culprits — a daily suspect wall with proof

Instead of one culprit, Clues & Culprits gives you a ring: 16 to 25 suspects on a grid, several of them criminals, everyone telling the truth. Each suspect you prove reveals their statement. The game only accepts verdicts the clues force, shows how many scenarios are still possible, and offers notes you can check for contradictions. Three cases a day, Sunday Evil cases, and every past case free to read.

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2. Deduce

The most Murdle-like option: a free daily logic grid across victim, suspect, room and weapon, with detective ranks that unlock new kinds of clues (testimony, motive, lies). Large free archive and free printable packs.

3. Verdict

Logic grids where you match names, drinks, objects and times to positions, with Easy, Medium and Hard cases every day and hints that explain the technique.

4. EveryClue

A daily whodunit — five suspects and a logic grid — plus Mystery Sudoku and crime-scene modes, in a very large number of languages. Today’s case and the last week are free.

5. Murder OX

Suspect, weapon and room grids with hand-written clues in six languages, and liars in the mix. The website has the daily case; the app holds the full catalogue.

6. Cluedoku

Detective sudoku: place suspects on a floor plan so no row or column repeats, and whoever shares a room with the victim is the culprit. Daily cases plus a campaign mode.

7. Suspectle

Floor-plan placement puzzles with pencil marks, a “check” button and step hints — great if you like sudoku-style solving.

8. Clues by Sam

The daily suspect wall that started a genre: twenty truthful suspects, one case a day, verdicts accepted only when proven. Its archive and packs are part of a paid membership.

Which one should you play?

• Want the classic grid? Deduce or Verdict.
• Want more suspects and a stricter proof rule? Clues & Culprits or Clues by Sam.
• Want spatial reasoning? Cluedoku or Suspectle — or see games like Murdoku.
• Want other languages? EveryClue, Murder OX or Cluedoku.

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