The Last Trail Hearing: a free Western logic-grid puzzle

The trouble at Last Trail reached the territorial paper before it reached the sheriff, which tells you something. 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

Refugia Salcido was carrying the sheared kingbolt, plain as day.
Half the county saw Isham Cobb at Wheeler Siding.
The hard-twist tie rope wasn't Quiet Tom Beaudry's.
Isham Cobb was never linked to the nicked cold chisel.
Slim Pete Rourke stayed well away from Last Trail.
Nobody could place Refugia Salcido at Willow Tank.
Isham Cobb had nothing to do with the hard-twist tie rope.
Whatever else is true, Refugia Salcido wasn't at Last Trail.

The grid

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

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