The cases for 2026-06-25

The books don't add up — five figures short, one long night. Every employee was at a different desk down the office floor. Figure out who sat where before the auditor arrives. The file names 4 employees; Yusuf Demir's statement sits on top of the pile.

1. 1. Priya Nair was in the desk right before the one from payroll.
2. 2. Priya Nair was somewhere before the employee with the double espresso in the line.
3. 3. Wes Porter was right next to the one from accounting.
4. 4. The employee with the lemon tea was right next to the one from records.
5. 5. Priya Nair and the one from records are the same person.
6. 6. The employee with the lemon tea was right next to the one from accounting.
7. 7. The employee with the americano was somewhere before the employee with the double espresso in the line.
8. 8. The employee with the lemon tea was somewhere before the one from accounting in the line.
9. 9. Ximena Cruz was somewhere before the employee with the americano in the line.
10. 10. Yusuf Demir and the employee with the americano are the same person.
11. 11. Yusuf Demir was in the desk right before the employee with the double espresso.
12. 12. Yusuf Demir was in the desk right before the one from research.

The Verlaine does not lose — so when the books came up light, the house locked the doors. A row of private rooms, a floor of practiced faces, one forged chip. Unmask the forger, room by room. Statements were taken from all 5 players; Bianca Reymond's is the first page.

1. 1. Bianca Reymond was somewhere before Cordelia Frost in the line.
2. 2. The faro player was in the room right before whoever stacked the ivory chips.
3. 3. The poker player was somewhere before the craps player in the line.
4. 4. The sic bo player was somewhere before whoever stacked the scarlet chips in the line.
5. 5. Bianca Reymond was in the room right before Cordelia Frost.
6. 6. The sic bo player and whoever stacked the rose-gold chips are the same person.
7. 7. Émile Tournier was in the room right before the poker player.
8. 8. The craps player and whoever stacked the scarlet chips are the same person.
9. 9. Bianca Reymond was in the room right before whoever stacked the violet chips.
10. 10. The poker player and whoever stacked the ivory chips are the same person.
11. 11. Cordelia Frost was in the room right before whoever stacked the cobalt chips.
12. 12. Émile Tournier and the faro player are the same person.
13. 13. Vivienne Laroche was in the room right before whoever stacked the scarlet chips.

The founder's feast ended early; the library's rarest volume left earlier still. Every professor turned in to a room off the old stone corridor, each with an alibi the porter cannot quite confirm. Reconstruct that corridor, room by room. The file names 5 fellows; Don Whitlock's statement sits on top of the pile.

1. 1. Dr. Rosendale was right next to whoever the porter saw at eleven o'clock.
2. 2. The one who claimed to be at the chapel was right next to whoever the porter saw at eleven o'clock.
3. 3. Whoever the porter saw at one o'clock was somewhere before whoever the porter saw at quarter to one in the line.
4. 4. The one who claimed to be at the muniment room was somewhere before the one who claimed to be at the dining hall in the line.
5. 5. Dr. Rosendale and the one who claimed to be at the muniment room are the same person.
6. 6. Bursar Quill was in the room right before whoever the porter saw at nine o'clock.
7. 7. Reader Vane was in the room right before whoever the porter saw at quarter to one.
8. 8. The scholar reading the book of hours was in the room right before the one who claimed to be at the chapel.
9. 9. The scholar reading the star chart was in the room right before the scholar reading the volume of sonnets.
10. 10. The one who claimed to be at the wine cellar was somewhere before the one who claimed to be at the muniment room in the line.
11. 11. The scholar reading the legal codex was in the room right before the one who claimed to be at the lecture theatre.
12. 12. Don Whitlock was in the room right before whoever the porter saw at one o'clock.
13. 13. Bursar Quill was in the room right before Dr. Rosendale.
14. 14. Warden Thorne and the one who claimed to be at the chapel are the same person.