Puzzles for people who like to work things out. No trivia, no vocabulary tests — just clues, rules and pure deduction. Ten logic grids from a beginner’s 3×3 up to three Hard 5×5s, eight sudoku in two levels, and five codes to crack, from a simple number key to a full substitution cipher. Every puzzle prints on a single page with a fold-over answer key.
Logic grids · sudoku · cryptograms · riddle code — 23 puzzles, Easy to Hard
Three runners, three medals and three “did not” clues. The simplest size a logic grid can be — the perfect first one.
Print this puzzle »Three kids, three backpack colours. A gentle 3×3 built for the first week of school.
Print this puzzle » Back to School »Three friends at the library’s puzzle club, each working a different kind of puzzle. Three “not” clues and no guessing.
Print this puzzle »Three friends pick three genres — but two of the clues are either/or statements, so the solve hinges on where they overlap.
Print this puzzle »Four neighbours, four treats, six clues — and every clue is needed. Take one away and the answer stops being unique.
Print this puzzle »Four kids, four first-period subjects. One of them gets her class by pure elimination.
Print this puzzle » Back to School »Four friends, four destinations. This one solves down a column before a row — good practice for reading a grid both ways.
Print this puzzle »Five performers, five acts, ten clues — and one performer is never mentioned by name. Solved entirely by elimination.
Print this puzzle »Five students, five projects. Built as a clean cascade: crack the first row and the rest fall one after another.
Print this puzzle »Five professionals, five laptop brands. Half the clues use jobs instead of names, and two are either/or — read carefully.
Print this puzzle »The most generous grid in the set, with 45 numbers already filled in. The quickest solve of the eight.
Print this puzzle »43 givens and only one 3 among them — mostly solvable by simple scanning.
Print this puzzle »The leanest of the easy four at 42 givens — a good bridge to the hard set.
Print this puzzle »32 givens, a lone 4 and a row with just two numbers. Expect a slower, more deliberate solve.
Print this puzzle »28 givens. Scanning gets you halfway; then you’ll need a pointing pair to keep going.
Print this puzzle »28 givens, three rows starting with only two numbers each. A pointing pair, then a naked or hidden pair.
Print this puzzle »28 givens and a completely empty centre box, with only one number in the top row and one in the bottom.
Print this puzzle »The quote is printed in full — it’s the name underneath that’s coded, with a simple A=1 to Z=26 key.
Print this puzzle »A nine-word saying hidden behind a Caesar shift of 3. You’re told the shift, so just count back.
Print this puzzle »Solve six fall riddles, then copy each letter into every box with the same number until a hidden saying appears.
Print this puzzle » Seasons & Weather »An astrophysics fact behind a deeper Caesar shift of 7 — the coded text looks far less like English.
Print this puzzle » Science, Space & Tech »Our first true substitution cryptogram: a scrambled alphabet and no key. The hidden text is the witches’ spell from Macbeth.
Print this puzzle » Halloween »| Puzzle | Type | Level | What’s inside |
|---|---|---|---|
| Podium Placements | Logic Grid | Easy | 3×3 · 3 clues |
| The New Backpacks | Logic Grid | Easy | 3×3 · 3 clues |
| Puzzle Club Night | Logic Grid | Easy | 3×3 · 3 clues |
| The Movie Night | Logic Grid | Easy | 3×3 · 3 clues · either/or |
| The Bake Sale | Logic Grid | Medium | 4×4 · 6 clues |
| The First Day Schedule | Logic Grid | Medium | 4×4 · 6 clues |
| The Road Trip | Logic Grid | Medium | 4×4 · 6 clues |
| The Talent Show | Logic Grid | Hard | 5×5 · 10 clues |
| The Science Fair | Logic Grid | Hard | 5×5 · 10 clues |
| The Laptop Lineup | Logic Grid | Hard | 5×5 · 8 clues · either/or |
| Easy Sudoku #4 | Sudoku | Easy | 45 givens |
| Easy Sudoku #1 | Sudoku | Easy | 43 givens |
| Easy Sudoku #2 | Sudoku | Easy | 43 givens |
| Easy Sudoku #3 | Sudoku | Easy | 42 givens |
| Hard Sudoku #3 | Sudoku | Hard | 32 givens |
| Hard Sudoku #1 | Sudoku | Hard | 28 givens |
| Hard Sudoku #2 | Sudoku | Hard | 28 givens |
| Hard Sudoku #4 | Sudoku | Hard | 28 givens |
| Guess the Author | Cryptogram | Easy | Number code · key given |
| Puzzle Saying | Cryptogram | Easy | Caesar shift 3 · shift given |
| Worth the Wait | Riddle Code | Easy | 6 riddles · type on screen |
| Science Cryptogram | Cryptogram | Medium | Caesar shift 7 · shift given |
| Something’s Brewing | Cryptogram | Medium | Substitution · no key · 15–30 min |
Start with Easy Sudoku #4 (45 givens), work down through the other easy grids, then try Hard Sudoku #3, which has a few more starting numbers than the other hard ones. Save Hard Sudoku #4, with its empty centre box, for last.
The first three hand you the key; the last two make you find it. Guess the Author → Puzzle Saying → Worth the Wait → Science Cryptogram → Something’s Brewing.
The logic grids and sudoku can be solved on screen as well as printed, and so can the riddle code. On a logic grid, click a square to cycle through ✗ and ✓, then press Check when you think you have it. The four newest grids (The Laptop Lineup, The New Backpacks, The First Day Schedule and Puzzle Club Night) also cross off the rest of the row and column for you when you place a ✓.
On paper, use a pencil. A wrong guess in ink is the most common reason a logic grid or sudoku goes sideways, and none of these puzzles ever needs a guess.
Mr. Puzzle says: If you’re stuck, you haven’t run out of logic, you’ve just missed a clue. Read every clue again from the top before you reach for the answer key.