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Frontier Logic Daily No. 65 November 8, 2026 Rookie

The Wire Gap Hearing: a free Western logic-grid puzzle

They're still arguing about what happened near Wire Gap. The facts, such as they are, are written here. 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

  1. Everyone agreed Halsey Fenn was at Granite Knob.
  2. Vance Pruitt was never linked to the maguey catch rope.
  3. No one puts Miss Verena Poole at Wire Gap.
  4. Vance Pruitt swore off any connection to the bent mill wrench, and the ledger agrees.
  5. Nobody saw Casimiro Peña anywhere near Roundup Flats.
  6. Casimiro Peña never laid hands on the running iron.
  7. Casimiro Peña was never linked to the bent mill wrench.
  8. Miss Verena Poole was never once placed at Roundup Flats.
  9. Halsey Fenn had no use for the maguey catch rope.
  10. Casimiro Peña swore off any connection to the maguey catch rope, and the ledger agrees.

The grid

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

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