Case file

The Five-Star Daily No. 97 December 17, 2026 Open and Shut

The Dry Stores Account: a free mystery logic-grid puzzle

This one turns on the Dry Stores, and on who can be put there. Everything below will hold up. Nothing else is needed.

This free Open and Shut logic-grid puzzle has 4 suspects, 4 locations, and 4 pieces of evidence. New to logic grids? Start with the mystery-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 pairing you have confirmed, 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.

What Margo can prove

  1. Priya Hargrove was in the Boot Room.
  2. Naomi Ferris was found with the Creased Wager Slip.
  3. Bartholomew Quince was not in the Laundry.
  4. Corwin Bletchley was not in the Boiler Room.
  5. Bartholomew Quince was not in the Boiler Room.
  6. Corwin Bletchley was not found with the Empty Wine Bottle.
  7. Corwin Bletchley was not found with the Frozen Door Latch.
  8. Priya Hargrove was not found with the Empty Wine Bottle.

The grid

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

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