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Murder Mystery Tree Lab:
(Due Mon, Apr 19, but I hope you can finish it within the lab period!)
Munster House Link:
The Munsters are a well-respected family living in Transylvania. There’s Herman and Lily, the parents, and their
two teenage children, Eddie and Marilyn. Grandpa Munster also lives with them.
One day the police are called to their home at 1313 Mockingbird Lane to solve a murder. However, the
circumstances are a bit unusual. Apparently Grandpa Munster was at a Costume Party, and came home to find
everyone gone and an hysterical maid. In piecing together her story, Grandpa, with a sinking heart, realizes that
the maid has seen one member of the family being murdered. She also saw the murderer and their accomplice
wrapping the body up and throwing it over the cliff into the rocky ocean below. Apparently the 4th member of the
family witnessed the whole thing through a window, and has now fled the premises in fear for their life.
So, to summarize, one of the Munsters has been murdered, one Munster is the murderer, one Munster is an
accomplice, and one Munster is a witness.
Grandpa has figured out who each one is, but can’t bear to just turn in his family members. So to assuage his
conscience, he has placed clues in various rooms throughout the Munster mansion, and each room has a key code.
(Because this factors into the maid’s eye-witness account, it is important to know that Herman and Eddie
habitually wear black, and Lily and Marilyn are never caught wearing anything but shades of green.)
Your job, as the detective on the case, is to figure out each key code to enter each room, gather the clues, and
then figure out who is the murderer, who was the accomplice, who was the witness, and who was murdered
before the murderer and their accomplice flee the country!
(The codes must be entered into the google form on canvas to unlock the next room and clue)
Good luck.
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Notes: At the bottom of each page is the alphabet, in order, along with a corresponding number. In computer
science, a is less than z.
Equally, when ordering strings, apple is less than zoo. While string order is based on the ascii character
representation, the easiest way to remember string order is to think of what page a word would occur on in the
dictionary. So:
• “aardvark” would occur on page 1,
• whereas “main” might occur on page 350, whereas
• “zymurgy” (yep, it’s a word. I googled ‘words that begin with zy’ and it popped up. It has something to do
with homebrewing) would occur on, say, page 1024.
That means aardvark < main < zymurgy
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