The Smelter Ridge Ledger: a free Western logic-grid puzzle

There was a dust-up near Smelter Ridge before the week was out, and by sundown every story on the circuit contradicted the one before it. 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

Half the county saw Doc Isabel Rennick at Copper Basin.
Lum Sing swore off any connection to the slit ore pannier, and the ledger agrees.
The spliced bell rope wasn't Lum Sing's.
Doc Isabel Rennick had no use for the slit ore pannier.
Nobody could place Mule-Ear Bodie at Smelter Ridge.
You can rule out Deadfall Notch for Old Ridge Barlow.
Doc Isabel Rennick was never linked to the filed scale weight.
It wasn't Doc Isabel Rennick who turned up with the spliced bell rope.
The slit ore pannier never belonged to Mule-Ear Bodie.
Mule-Ear Bodie stayed well away from Deadfall Notch.

The grid

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

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