Last night at the Starlite, somebody conked Earl, the handyman, out cold. They'll be fine, but they'd like a word with whoever did it. Each suspect was in a different spot with a different object.
PPeggy Amesa honeymooner
TTwyla Gentrya door-to-door cosmetics lady
LLula Mae Fontainea lounge singer
DDolores Pinkthe night clerk
Clue cards
0/5 flipped
1Face down
2Face down
3Face down
4Face down
5Face down
Logic grid
Tap a square once for ✗, twice for ✓.
🔑Room 12
🛎️Lobby
🧊Ice machine
6️⃣Room 6
🍳cast-iron skillet
🏆bowling trophy
☎️rotary phone
💨hair dryer
Peggy
Twyla
Lula Mae
Dolores
🍳cast-iron skillet
🏆bowling trophy
☎️rotary phone
💨hair dryer
🔑 Room 12
🛎️ Lobby
🧊 Ice machine
6️⃣ Room 6
🍳 cast-iron skillet
🏆 bowling trophy
☎️ rotary phone
💨 hair dryer
Make your accusation
One shot only. You can flip more clues first.
How to play
Alibi is a daily pocket-sized whodunit set at the Starlite Motor Lodge, a pastel roadside motel somewhere in 1962. Somebody conked a guest on the head. You have four suspects, four places and four objects, and a stack of clue cards. Work out who did it, where, and with what.
Each suspect was in a different place, holding a different object. One of them is the culprit.
Clue cards start face down. Flip them one at a time. The first is free; after that, each one lowers your score.
Use the logic grid to keep track: tap a square once to rule something out (✗) and again to confirm it (✓). Confirming crosses out the rest of that row and column for you.
When you're sure, pick a suspect, a place and an object, and make your accusation. You only get one.
A correct accusation scores 100, 85, 70, 55, 40 points for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 clues flipped. A wrong one scores nothing. Every case is checked by a solver before it's published: all five clues always lead to exactly one answer, and you never actually need all five. Most cases can be cracked with three or four, if you read them carefully.
Watch for clues about the deed itself (“It happened by the ice machine”) and clues about everyone's whereabouts (“Neither Chet nor Opal was in the lobby”). The trick is usually combining the two.
Past puzzles
Reopen any past case. Archive games are just for fun and don't count toward your stats.
This is puzzle #1. Past puzzles will be listed here from tomorrow.