The Toll Gate Pass Ledger: a free Western logic-grid puzzle

Four riders were out past Toll Gate Pass that morning. All four have an explanation, and the sheriff believes none of them. Settle it the only way it can be settled.

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

Everyone agreed Nettie Frayne was at Last Trail.
Amos Pike was placed at Lookout Grade, plain as day.
Nobody saw Cassius Mowbray anywhere near Toll Gate Pass.
Nobody could connect Cassius Mowbray to the lump of sealing wax.
The deputy struck the broken strongbox hasp off Nabor Zamora's account.
The lump of sealing wax wasn't Nabor Zamora's.
Nabor Zamora had no use for the hemp stake rope.
Cassius Mowbray had nothing to do with the broken strongbox hasp.
The lump of sealing wax never belonged to Nettie Frayne.

The grid

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

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