The Miller's Creek Job: a free Western logic-grid puzzle

The trouble at Miller's Creek reached the territorial paper before it reached the sheriff, which tells you something. See what the facts will carry.

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

Tin-Star Tucker's presence at Thistle Canyon was no secret.
The pair of muddy boots wasn't Ironjaw Hobbs's.
The deputy struck the pair of muddy boots off Tin-Star Tucker's account.
Nobody could connect Tin-Star Tucker to the chewed cigar stub.
The cracked canteen never belonged to Cutter McCall.
Cutter McCall swore never to have set foot in Broken Wheel Trail, and the ledger agrees.
Tin-Star Tucker never laid hands on the cracked canteen.
Nobody could place Cutter McCall at Widow's Ridge.
Bandit Lou kept well clear of Widow's Ridge.
Cutter McCall swore off any connection to the pair of muddy boots, and the ledger agrees.

The grid

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

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