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Frontier Logic Daily No. 82 November 25, 2026 Rookie

The Old Corral Bottom Statement: a free Western logic-grid puzzle

The sheriff has four riders, one afternoon at Old Corral Bottom, and a stack of statements that cannot all be true. 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

  1. Faro Alice Dunning and the broken strongbox hasp go together — that much is settled.
  2. Quiet Tom Beaudry and the bloodstained duster go together — that much is settled.
  3. Faro Alice Dunning swore never to have set foot in Relay Hollow, and the ledger agrees.
  4. Slim Pete Rourke wasn't carrying the hemp stake rope.
  5. The deputy struck Old Corral Bottom off Faro Alice Dunning's account.
  6. You can rule out Old Corral Bottom for Slim Pete Rourke.
  7. Slim Pete Rourke was nowhere near Relay Hollow.
  8. Nobody could place Slim Pete Rourke at Cañón Angosto.
  9. Nobody saw Peter Lidgate anywhere near Old Corral Bottom.

The grid

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

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