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Frontier Logic Daily No. 92 December 5, 2026 Rookie

The Lookout Grade Hearing: a free Western logic-grid puzzle

The trouble at Lookout Grade reached the territorial paper before it reached the sheriff, which tells you something. Work it through, and mind the ledger.

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. The bent brake rod came off Ory Pinnick, and there's no arguing it.
  2. Ory Pinnick was never once placed at Willow Tank.
  3. Ory Pinnick stayed well away from Cuesta Alta.
  4. Faro Alice Dunning had nothing to do with the worn mail pouch.
  5. Faro Alice Dunning swore never to have set foot in Willow Tank, and the ledger agrees.
  6. Whatever else is true, Ory Pinnick wasn't at Lookout Grade.
  7. You can rule out the hemp stake rope for Isham Cobb.
  8. Piers Ottway was nowhere near Willow Tank.
  9. Faro Alice Dunning never laid hands on the hemp stake rope.
  10. Faro Alice Dunning was never at Lookout Grade.

The grid

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

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