A Candlelit Gathering — Rookie, 12 May 2026

Rookie · 12 May 2026 · Blackwood Hall

A silent night. A body discovered. 3 suspects, 3 reasons to lie — and only one guilty conscience before the morning comes.

The case file

This Rookie case is set in Blackwood Hall and puts 3 suspects, 3 rooms, 3 weapons, 5 clues on the board. 4 detectives filed a correct verdict on the day it ran. Detectives who cracked it took a median of 1 minute.

Deduce cases are logic-grid deduction puzzles: read the clues, eliminate the impossible, and name who did it, where, and with what. This case was verified by a constraint solver as solvable by deduction alone before it was published. The solution is not published here — the only way to know is to work it out.

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