Make every clue count.

New to deduction puzzles? Try the complete practice case with unlimited checks and a step-by-step solution. No account or daily attempt needed.

In each Cluetles case, four guests visited four different rooms. Each guest carried a different item and left at a different time. Your job is to put one guest, one carried item and one departure time in every room, then identify who took the missing object.

Build your theory

  1. Read the witnesses together. Every statement is true, but one clue may only become useful after you connect it with another. Begin with a direct fact, such as a guest’s room, then look for relationships between guests, items and times.
  2. Place the twelve pieces. Drag a piece onto a room, or select the piece and then the room. Each piece can be used once. Placing it in an occupied slot swaps the pieces. Guests, items and times can be placed in any order.
  3. Use the tray as a scratchpad. Group related pieces in tray columns while you work. Those groups are notes; only pieces placed inside rooms count toward your answer. Undo restores your previous arrangement.
  4. Check carefully. You have three placement checks, which also work on an incomplete board. Red pieces need another look. Using Undo does not restore a check. You can also reveal up to four extra clues; each adds a statement without filling in the board.
  5. Follow the decisive evidence. When all twelve pieces are placed, select the culprit and submit your final answer. You get one final submission. An incorrect board or culprit ends the case, so review every clue before committing.

A guest’s carried item is a clue to their identity. It is not necessarily the object that was stolen.

Practice the reasoning

Who carried the key?

This short teaching example is separate from the daily cases. Imagine you have these three witness statements:

  1. The guest in the Library left at 8:15.
  2. Ada left fifteen minutes after the guest in the Library.
  3. The guest who carried the key left at 8:30.

The decisive evidence says: “Whoever carried the key took the brooch.” What do the clues tell you about Ada?

Follow the deduction

The Library guest left at 8:15. Fifteen minutes later is 8:30, so Ada left at 8:30. Each departure time belongs to only one guest. Since the key carrier also left at 8:30, Ada carried the key. The decisive evidence therefore identifies Ada as the culprit.

You have connected a room, a time, a guest and an item without guessing. In a full case, continue making these connections until every room is complete.

Your daily attempt

The daily case changes at midnight UTC, and everyone gets the same puzzle for that date. Your timer begins when you reach the table and keeps running while you are away. Only a correct final answer enters the daily leaderboard. It lists anonymous times; your Google name and email are not shown.

You can play the daily case without an account. Guest saves belong to your browser. Signing in with Google saves progress to your account across devices; guest and account progress are separate.

Mouse, touch and keyboard

Dragging is optional. Tap or focus a piece and select it, then tap or focus its destination room and select that. With a tray piece selected, the left and right arrow keys rearrange its tray position. On the 3D table, select a placed piece and choose Return to tray, or press Delete. Music and motion have separate controls at the entrance.

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