Escândaloku

Chegóku

One July, the office of the leader of Chega, a Portuguese right-wing party, was found ransacked inside the national Parliament. The door hadn't been forced, there are no cameras inside, and two USB sticks and some documents linked to the parliamentary inquiry into Luís Neves had gone missing. The party spoke of 'ground zero of democracy'. Others asked whether it was a break-in or a farce. In each case someone was left alone with the evidence, and the evidence may have been taken to any room. Place each person in their room, one per row, one per column. Whoever is left alone in the evidence's room is the culprit. All the characters are made up.

  1. The door nobody forced (easy)
  2. The six o'clock alarm (easy)
  3. The keys at the front desk (easy)
  4. The visitors' book (easy)
  5. Cleaning at seven (easy)
  6. Ground zero (easy)
  7. The USB stick that came back (easy)
  8. No cameras (easy)
  9. Four people, five versions (medium)
  10. The cameras that don't exist (medium)
  11. Papers over a year old (medium)
  12. The USB stick with a sticker (medium)
  13. Too many photocopies (medium)
  14. The emergency meeting (medium)
  15. The MP who arrived early (medium)
  16. The press conference that never happened (medium)
  17. A statement at three in the morning (medium)
  18. The inquiry into the inquiry (medium)
  19. Nobody saw a thing, as usual (hard)
  20. The press conference (hard)
  21. The tidy burglar (hard)
  22. Documents that reached us (hard)
  23. The two USB sticks (hard)
  24. The night of the two USB sticks (expert)
  25. Break-in or farce (expert)

About Chegóku

Chegóku is the Escândaloku case file about the office of the leader of Chega, a Portuguese right-wing party, which was found ransacked inside the national Parliament. There are 25 Murdoku-style logic puzzles: read the clues, place each suspect on the floor plan and find out who was left alone with the evidence.

The first cases take a few minutes. The last ones, on 10 by 10 boards, make you test hypotheses. You don't need to know anything about Portuguese politics to play: the characters are made up and the scandal is only the setting.