The Antelope Bench Business: a free Western logic-grid puzzle

The deputy rode out to Antelope Bench on a Tuesday and came back with four statements, no two of which agreed on the weather. Sort out who was where before the trail goes cold.

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

Half the county saw Jubal Tanner at Llano Seco.
Nobody saw Trader Nell Dabney anywhere near Antelope Bench.
Adelia Thorne had nothing to do with the bent mill wrench.
The running iron wasn't Ewell Crane's.
The stained bed tarp never belonged to Ewell Crane.
No one puts Ewell Crane at Antelope Bench.
Adelia Thorne swore off any connection to the stained bed tarp, and the ledger agrees.
Trader Nell Dabney never laid hands on the bent mill wrench.
Trader Nell Dabney never made it as far as La Ciénega.
Ewell Crane was never linked to the bent mill wrench.

The grid

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

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