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School’s cancelled! Four friends each spent the snow day doing something different outside. Use the clues to work out who did what — mark ✓ for true and ✗ for false as you go.
Sledding
Skating
Snowman
Snow Fort
Maya
Ethan
Chloe
Liam
Clues
Maya’s toboggan cracked right down the middle on its last run, so she didn’t go sledding.
Ethan wiped out on the big hill last winter, so he wasn’t about to go sledding again.
Liam’s snowballs always crumble before they get big, so he didn’t build the snowman.
Either Maya built the snow fort, or Chloe went skating.
Either Ethan went skating, or Liam built the snow fort.
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Solution
Sledding
Skating
Snowman
Snow Fort
Maya
✓
Ethan
✓
Chloe
✓
Liam
✓
How to Solve This Logic Grid Puzzle
Three of the clues here simply rule something out, and two are either/or clues. Those are the interesting ones, because neither half is handed to you as true.
Mark the easy ✗s first. Clues 1, 2 and 3 each cross off one square: Maya didn’t go sledding, Ethan didn’t either, and Liam didn’t build the snowman. That’s not enough to place anyone yet, and that’s normal for a Medium grid.
Test one side of an either/or clue. Clue 5 says either Ethan went skating or Liam built the snow fort. Try the second option and follow it through: if Liam built the fort, clue 4 forces Chloe onto the ice, and then one of the four friends is left with nothing they’re allowed to do. That’s a contradiction, so the other half of clue 5 must be true.
Let it ripple. Once you know the answer from clue 5, clue 4 settles itself, and the last two friends fall into place by elimination.
Testing an idea until it breaks is called proof by contradiction, and it’s the key skill that separates a Medium logic grid from an Easy one. For the full method, see our complete logic puzzle solving guide.
About This Puzzle
Mr. Puzzle built The Snow Day for winter — a 4×4 grid, one size up from our easiest logic puzzles. It has five clues, and each one is necessary: take any single clue away and more than one solution becomes possible. Every puzzle here is checked by computer against all 24 possible answers to make sure exactly one fits.