THE DAILY CASE · Sunday, Nov 8

The Alibi

The facts are all here. The answer is yours to find.

CASE 202611084 visitors · 4 hours

What happened in the Study?

A rare book was found missing after four visitors passed through the house. Work out when each arrived, which room they visited, and what they carried. Who was in the Study?

The room identifies a witness to question. The clues do not establish who took the book.

01 / EVIDENCE

The statements

  1. 01Owen was not in the Study.
  2. 02Eli did not carry the Lantern.
  3. 03Owen did not carry the Compass.
  4. 04Owen did not arrive at 11:00.
  5. 05Rosa was not in the Gallery.
  6. 06The visitor in the Gallery arrived immediately before Felix.
  7. 07The person with the Lantern arrived immediately before the person with the Camera.
  8. 08Eli arrived before the visitor in the Study.
  9. 09Eli arrived before the person with the Lantern.
  10. 10Eli arrived immediately before the person with the Compass.
  11. 11Felix arrived immediately before the visitor in the Study.
  12. 12Rosa arrived immediately before the visitor in the Atrium.
02 / RECONSTRUCT

The visitor log

Choose one of each time, room, and object for every visitor. No choice repeats in a column.

Rosa
Eli
Felix
Owen

Fill each row. Every time, room, and object belongs to one visitor.

How to investigate

Each visitor arrived at a different hour, entered a different room, and carried a different object. “Immediately before” means the next hour. The statements form a case with exactly one solution; deductions and elimination are enough.

Your visitor log and notes save on this device. A new case appears at midnight Eastern.

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