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Frontier Logic Daily No. 60 November 3, 2026 Rookie

The La Ciénega Report: a free Western logic-grid puzzle

There's a version of the La Ciénega business going round the saloon and another going round the church, and neither one holds up. There's an answer in here. Find it.

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. Ewell Crane was carrying the cut picket line, plain as day.
  2. Ewell Crane kept well clear of Wire Gap.
  3. Nobody could place Ewell Crane at La Ciénega.
  4. No one puts Casimiro Peña at Wire Gap.
  5. Nobody could connect Vance Pruitt to the torn tally book.
  6. The torn tally book wasn't Wire Pete Nash's.
  7. Vance Pruitt had no use for the lump of harness wax.
  8. Nobody saw Vance Pruitt anywhere near Wire Gap.
  9. Ewell Crane was nowhere near Sabino Rim.
  10. You can rule out La Ciénega for Vance Pruitt.

The grid

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

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