Hinoku

Before a motorcycle Grand Prix, a duo of brothers sang the national anthem and, at home, the sound arrived broken. The next day, a comedian posted a montage with reactions from the judges of a talent show. Two years later, the duo asked a court for over a million euros. This case file tells the story in order, in eight episodes: each case opens when you solve the previous one, and the evidence changes from episode to episode. 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. Sound check (easy)
2. The sound desk (easy)
3. The delay (easy)
4. The starting grid (easy)
5. They murdered the anthem (easy)
6. The video that was already going round (easy)
7. The judges (easy)
8. The caption (easy)
9. Share (easy)
10. The comments (easy)
11. Asking nicely (medium)
12. Proof of delivery (medium)
13. The sponsorships (medium)
14. Second attempt (medium)
15. Second-hand embarrassment (medium)
16. One million, one hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred (medium)
17. Eleven concerts (medium)
18. A hundred thousand in sponsorship (medium)
19. The accountant (medium)
20. The news gets there first (medium)
21. Preliminary hearing (medium)
22. Offer and counter-offer (medium)
23. No agreement (hard)
24. The date is set (hard)
25. First hearing (hard)
26. The limit of humour (hard)
27. The conductor (hard)
28. Seventy-five thousand (hard)
29. The comedians take the stand (hard)
30. Nobody sued the sound (hard)
31. An app on the phone (expert)
32. A match in a haystack (expert)
33. Filed, not read (expert)
34. Causation (expert)
35. Verbal stoning (expert)
36. The costs (expert)
37. No appeal (expert)
38. In the proper place (expert)
39. Premiere (expert)
40. The anthem, again (expert)

About Hinoku

Hinoku is the Escândaloku case file about the Anjos vs Joana Marques case: the national anthem sung by the duo Anjos before the MotoGP in Portimão in 2022, the comic montage that Joana Marques posted the next day and the 1.1 million euro lawsuit that ended with the comedian acquitted in 2025. There are 40 Murdoku-style logic puzzles, told in order across eight episodes, from the racetrack to the ruling.

Unlike the other case files, each case here opens when you solve the previous one, and the evidence changes from episode to episode: an earpiece, a phone, a registered letter, a fan. The difficulty climbs all the way to 10 by 10 boards. The suspects in each case are made up; the scandal is the setting.