Whodunnit ?

Solve mysteries using filters, clues, and deduction
Welcome to Salthouse Manor

Solve a series of crimes using a suspect database

You will investigate witness statements, find clues, and use database filters to eliminate suspects. Each case can be solved logically. No guessing. No luck.

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How it works

You will be preesented with witness interviews for a series of crimes committed by one of fifty house guests at Salthouse Manor. You will need to extract the clues and use the database to eliminate suspects until you are left with only one: the culprit.

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Read the case Watch the evidence build through witness interviews and clues.
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Use the database Filter by age, height, passport, features, hair, blood group, and more, until only one possible suspect remains.
3
Make your accusation Enter the suspect’s name and see if you have solved the crime.

Teacher guide

Suitable for age 10 and older. Learn how to use and extend this introduction to databases.

1. Start the story

The setting, the scenario, the detectives and the whodunnit genre are all explained here.

Open story

2. Learn about databases first

Essential knowledge about databases. Know the important terms such as 'filter', 'record' and 'field'.

Open database guide

3. Solve the crimes

Read the cases and use the clues to solve the crimes by eliminiting all but one suspect with the database.

Open the cases