>>11840
The murderer is not inside the rooms.

Rudolf's body is no longer whole. It has been altered in a way to leave the room without the need of the door or window.
An example would be acid being used to dissolve the body, which then left the room via the drain.

Rudolf did not leave the room.

"It is impossible to pass a key into an area when the locks is set.
Neither George or Shannon locked the rooms."


All the prior red concerning the locking of the rooms does not apply to the chains and/or windows.

>>11843
Those reds apply to the chain and window locks.


>Rudolf is not in the room anymore.
>Rudolf did not leave the room.
Well then.
Even if Rudolf's body was melted it may not count as Rudolf.
Therefore we cannot say with 100% confidence that Rudolf nor any part of the body is in the room.
ie that blood found in the room is from Rudolf. Or in fact his whole dissolved corpse.

Well that was fast, yes you got most of it. Good game!

Mion is the culprit. He killed Rudolf and then suicided. The trick was to make everyone believe that Rudolf/Kanon is the killer, so I can do the wordplay to make him disappear. Here is the trick .

When Mion killed him he cut him with the knife, he cut everything and then used the bathroom to flush every little bit of Rudolf through it. When Rudolf's corpse could not be recognized as a corpse, he ceased to exist. Therefore Rudolf never did any action after that, Rudolf was no more. Mion made the pieces leave the room through the bathroom and suicided to cover the bloody room.

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Well, would have been simple if it was a problem with red, but since both blues have been denied as you have prepared for it seems this is a stalemate. You both made 25 blues and each made reds to deny each others.

I think if either of you want to throw in the towel that is fine. It seems Rika already has volunteered so if that is what you wish then I won't stop you.

Originally I planned to give up as well, but that would mean having no final round, no fun etc. I will continue to the last round, if Ozaki accepts it, but I'm not posting another blue for this one.

The game was great Rika, I was very sure of some of my blues but you skillfully blocked them or deceived me. Really, being older here doesn't really helps me solving other's mysteries.

>>11831
That was pretty much what I was intending, yeah. The core trick behind it isn't really anything speial, but I hoped that setting up all that stuff with the keys around it would distract people from the actual answer. Evidently it worked pretty well~

The solution:

Kinzo's study is located directly above the VIP room. Due to an unfortunate accident before the family conference, a hole was made in the floor of Kinzo's study which goes through the ceiling of the VIP room.

This is why Krauss forbade the VIP room to be entered without his explicit permission, because he was afraid one of the siblings would enter and notice the hole which would allow them to see into Kinzo's study, breaking the illusion of his death.

That night, Eva sneaked into Kinzo's study through the window in an attempt to expose his death. Krauss noticed her sneaking around, and in a panic, he entered Kinzo's study himself to try and get her out. She had already entered, and a struggle ensued. During said struggle, Eva pushed Krauss into the hole, causing him to fall into the VIP room. He died due to blunt force trauma from the fall.

To try and cover up the murder, Eva decided to make it look like a witch had done it by drawing the magic circle on the door. To further create the sense that it was impossible for a human, she located the VIP room key and threw that into the hole in the floor of Kinzo's study. She then sealed up the hole so that nobody would know it had ever been there.

...So yeah, it was a little farfetched. The trick here was that my red statement that no entrances or exits exist aside from the door and window only applies to the present time.

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>>11833
No, not at all. Actually by using it yourself you deceived me into thinking the possibility wouldn't be worth trying. My only complaint would be that I can't find any hint or obscure clue in the paragraph, but I guess we never stated they should be there. Oh well, CRB are mind games, indeed. Great game.

>>11757
I won't deny it, but guess game is a little harsh. But if I don't post a red it will probably consider this the end. So, The culprit never set foot in the sunroom until after Jessica's corpse was found.

One of them had a delayed death. They didn't die instantly so they had time to lock the door/chain/window.

>>11758
Neither George or Shannon locked the rooms.

I see. Well with the knife red and that last red then I imagine The knife was stabbed into Jessica through that opening.

>>11759
That dang vague blue. Ruined everything, the whole trick never even got a show. Ticks me off greatly...

>>11760
Jessica received a drink of Hideyoshi, which she didn't know had sleeping stuff mixed in. After drinking it, she feel asleep.

Key to the room is on the table as is the key to the drawer.

Eva climbed up onto the roof and opened a hatch that was on top. She aimed right over Jessica and dropped a knife. The force from the gravity caused it to stab into Jessica.

She then lowered a magnet down on string to grab the key to the room, she them moved it over the drawer and pried it off used the edges on end front of the drawer. She then moved her needlessly complex string device to over to the key to the drawer and snatched it up the same way. She moved it over to the drawer and inserted it. By maneuvering it just right she got the key to lock (I forget the exact method you can use, but it is possible at least under certain circumstances, I got it to work..) Tug a little to pull it out. (Once again foggy memory on exactly how, since I did this so long ago..) Swing back over to Jessica lower into pocket shake vigorously repeatedly until magnet or key gets loose.

And how did the culprit locked the room?
Reference older red.

With a book?

Congratulations anon! A little late though, I know... just wanted to wait until the other match was done. I definitely learned a lot from this, watch out for next time...

THE CURTAIN RISES
The scene frozen in place was slashed by blue, broken into pieces that flew away into the abyss.
All overhead lights turned off, and instead were replaced by a single spotlight pointing at a figure on center stage. There was a long intermission and he couldn't see how much of the audience was left with the light, but perhaps it was for the better…
*Ahem* *Deeply Inhales*

“October 4th,1986, sometime in the afternoon when the family arrives, a “mysterious” guest makes an appearance to the family conference named Erika. A standard game in my eyes so far. Shannon/Kanon, who I’ll call Shkanon at times, decides to poison the dinner. To make things short and simple for sake of convenience, Erika manages to catch them in the act. She now has power over Yasu, threatening to reveal their charade to everyone, and detain them until authorities arrive. But the ever-gracious Erika decides to make an ultimatum for her own pleasure, Yasu is to take part in their death that night for a little mystery game and allow the mystery of Rokkenjima to live on forever---or suffer the aforementioned consequences.
Sometime later in the evening with the sunset almost over, the family decides to look at the rose garden one last time before the late typhoon comes in. While this is happening, Erika is placing normal, signed, duct tape seals inside of the guest house on all the windows (Push windows, not sliding) at approximately the same time, except she cheats a little. The seal placed on the window inside of Kanon’s designated room (She placed this from the outside as she never entered the room) and the window at the end of the hall on the second story (where she is at the start of the game) are placed only halfway on the inside window frame, thus when is pushed forward, then tugged back ever so slightly through a gap in the windowsill, the seals then are effectively in place. Once moved again once both sides of the sticky side touch the frames, are torn. Erika also places a role of duct tape, a long rope from the shed, and a long piece of string inside Kanon’s room on the shelf. She then proceeds to lock all the windows except the ones with only half seals, and walks back outside and sees everyone in a state of panic as the adults before them are foaming on the ground.
Erika manages to calm down the survivors, Battler, Shannon, George, Jessica, Maria, Genji, and Kumasawa, and persuades the group it would be best to sleep in the Guest House as it would be beneficial to

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Are you a writer or something? That was pretty well made for a first attempt doing something like this.
Hopefully other lurkers might also join the community following your example.

Rudolf did not exited via the door before Mion suicided.

A water pump, relied to a fire hydrant.

The water was not from a fire hydrant. Nor was a pump used.

Rudolf escaped after Mion suicided. Perhaps the gap in the door is large enough even with the chain lock applied, or perhaps he escaped while Kanon and Genji were checking Mion's corpse.

Rudolf did not escape after Mion suicided.



A trap opened and let water flow into the room from the outside. Outside of the room was waterMaybe the room was in a lac, pool , ocean, watertank.

Correct, the room was a barrel which was submerged in the ocean. The room itself was the trap. As the barrel sank, it would begin to crack under the water pressure, until it burst open.