Description of App
Now also on iPad! Portrait or landscape. A new free Daily Case every day. Place every suspect, read the clues, and name the killer. Every room has a story. One hides a killer. Roomers is a cozy murder-mystery logic puzzle. Each case is a crime scene: a floor plan divided into rooms, furnished with tables, chairs, and secrets. Place every suspect so each row and column holds exactly one person, follow each suspect's clue, and when the board is solved is time to accuse. The murderer is whoever ends up alone in a room with the victim. NO GUESSING, EVER Every case has exactly one solution, provable by pure deduction. If you're stuck, the answer is already on the board — you just haven't seen it yet. THE DAILY CASE — FREE One fresh case a day, the same for every detective in the world. Build a streak. Defend it. 41 HAND-CHECKED CASE FILES — FREE From gentle 6×6 warm-ups to expert 8×8 brain-benders, across twenty themed locales: dinner parties, ski lodges, aquariums, lighthouses, and grandma's house. ROOMERS UNLIMITED — ONE PURCHASE, YOURS FOREVER • Endless cases: conjure a brand-new, never-before-seen mystery on demand, at any difficulty. • The Daily Case archive: reopen every daily you missed. • No subscription. No account. No ads. Works completely offline. MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD On iPad, play full screen in portrait or landscape — in landscape the clue cards sit beside the board, detective's-desk style. DESIGNED FOR COMFORT Pencil notes, auto-marking, undo, a furniture legend, satisfying haptics, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support. Follow the system appearance or force Light/Dark, and tune clue highlighting (exact squares, rooms only, or off) to deduce as much as you like. A timer if you want one; peace if you don't.
Comments
never solved one!
The "how to play" section is not clear at all.
Tried to solve one, but despite placing all characters in the boxes indicated by the clues, some cells have "in conflict" on them, some others "ruled out", I really don't understand how to play properly!
MOre rotor options?
I actually did manage to solve one, but I'm very confused by what makes a space ruled out. It would also be incredible if there was a way to rotor to points of interest, similar to the way Blackbox has made it possible to jump between challenges in various ways. It was very confusing, (and slightly infuriating,) hunting for which square of carpet was by a table in today's challenge, and as far as I know, actually spoting the object in question is not meant to be part of the puzzle. But all in all, I'm very intrigued by this and will absolutely play with it more! Well done to the dev on the great work!
ruled out
Ruled out is a label for squares that are in the same row or column as an already placed character, meaning that no character can be placed on that square in the current configuration. By default squares are automatically ruled out when you place characters, but you can turn this off in settings.
points of interest
I haven't played blackbox too much so I'm not entirely sure what this would mean/how it would work, but anything that would make the object hunting a bit smoother sounds good to me! I'm starting to play around with the tougher puzzles and keeping track of where all the objects are is a bit difficult.
Edit: Ok I thought about it more and I think I know what you mean. The points of interest rotor would just allow you to swipe up and down through objects on the board, skipping over empty cells, right?