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Frontier Logic Daily No. 41 October 15, 2026 Rookie

The Mesquite Rise Matter: a free Western logic-grid puzzle

They're still arguing about what happened near Mesquite Rise. The facts, such as they are, are written here. Settle it the only way it can be settled.

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

  1. Two witnesses put the knotted well line in Josiah Crandall's hands.
  2. No one puts Lupe Carrasco at Sunk Field.
  3. Josiah Crandall swore never to have set foot in Old Compuerta, and the ledger agrees.
  4. Whatever else is true, Josiah Crandall wasn't at Sunk Field.
  5. The cut well bucket never belonged to Lupe Carrasco.
  6. Vicente Ochoa kept well clear of Mesquite Rise.
  7. Vicente Ochoa was never at Sunk Field.
  8. Whatever else is true, Vicente Ochoa wasn't at Old Compuerta.
  9. The soaked land patent wasn't Cleto Barraza's.
  10. Lupe Carrasco wasn't carrying the soaked land patent.

The grid

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

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