The Nine Mile Flat Business: a free Western logic-grid puzzle

It started at Nine Mile Flat and it ended badly, and the space in between is what wants sorting out. The ledger will hold up if you will.

This free Rookie logic-grid puzzle has 4 suspects, 4 locations, and 4 pieces of evidence. New to logic grids? Start with the pencil-solving guide.

How to mark the grid

●: These two belong together.
✕: These two are ruled out.
blank: Still undecided.

How to play

Click, tap or press Enter on a cell to cycle it: blank, then ● for a confirmed pairing, then ✕ for one you have ruled out. Nothing fills itself in — the deductions are yours to make. Use the arrow keys to move around the grid.

Fill obvious Xs does the bookkeeping only: for each ● you have marked, it crosses off the rest of that pairing's own row and column. It never adds a ●, never reads a clue, and never changes a mark you made.

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

Every case has exactly one solution, and it is always reachable by deduction alone. Nothing here guesses for you, and Check will not tell you which mark is wrong.

Clues and evidence

The cut latigo was Jubal Tanner's, and nobody disputes it.
You can rule out the running iron for Biscuit Roy Tull.
Feliciano Ortega was never linked to the dropped spur rowel.
Biscuit Roy Tull was never once placed at Alder Sink.
Biscuit Roy Tull was nowhere near Thicket Bottom.
Nobody could place Feliciano Ortega at Thicket Bottom.
Whatever else is true, Biscuit Roy Tull wasn't at Nine Mile Flat.
Feliciano Ortega had nothing to do with the running iron.
Jubal Tanner kept well clear of Thicket Bottom.
Feliciano Ortega stayed well away from Alder Sink.

The grid

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

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