Game guide

Alibi Game Guide

Welcome, Inspector.

A new case file lands every midnight Eastern. A death overnight at a country house, a small cast of suspects, a few pieces of evidence, a handful of rooms — same count on each side, so every room ends up with exactly one suspect and exactly one piece of evidence. Every word of the household's statements is true. Read the rail, place each suspect and every piece of evidence back where they belong, confirm the ones you're certain of.

Alibi rewards deduction. Staging chips in rooms is free — it lets you try ideas without risk. Confirm when the statements point one way, and at the close the room with the killer and the weapon marks itself as the crime scene.

How to Play: Controls and Rules

Read the clue rail. Tap a clue to pin it — the suspects, evidence and rooms it talks about light up plum across the board.
Drag a chip from the palette into the room you suspect. Rooms can hold many candidates while you weigh the clues — drag a chip back out to remove it.
Tap a staged chip to confirm it. Correct: it locks and the other chips of the same type in that room clear out. Wrong: the chip pops back and the False accusations counter ticks.
The five clue kinds

What the symbols mean

Every clue chip is two icons and a connector. The chip's layout tells you the relationship before you read any glyph — stacked means “above”, side-by-side means “left of” or one of the togetherness clues.

  • Same row, somewhere to the left
  • Same column, somewhere above
  • Rook-adjacent rooms
  • Together — same room
  • Apart — different rooms

Mint-tinted chips mean together — those two items share a room. Coral-tinted chips mean apart — they never will. The other three (left of, above, next to) are spatial constraints on the grid itself.

New each day

One new file on the desk each day.

A new Alibi case file opens at midnight Eastern Time. Early in the week, files are friendly 2×3 grids — open-and-shut affairs. By the weekend they grow to the full 3×4, with a dozen suspects, a dozen pieces of evidence, and a long rail to work through.

  • Mon & Tue: open-and-shut
  • Wed & Thu: midweek twists
  • Fri & Sat: longer files
  • Sun: the locked-room mystery
Missed a night?

Replay the archive.

The most recent 7cases stay open to everyone; subscribe to reopen every file in the casebook. Use the archive to catch up, warm up before today's case, or re-open one you got stuck on.

Ready to deduce?

Today's case is waiting. A new case every midnight Eastern.

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