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Three rooms, three guests and three drinks. Follow this miniature case from the first clue to the final placement. The video is silent, with every explanation on screen. Pause whenever you want to work out the next step.
1 minute 52 seconds. A fixed teaching example, separate from the daily puzzles. Captions are visible in the video and repeated below as text.
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The case notes
Each room holds one guest and one drink. Every guest and drink appears exactly once.
Guests: Ava Sterling, Felix Marsh, Clara Voss. Drinks: brandy, port, earl grey.
- Ava Sterling was in Room 2.
- The guest drinking the brandy was in the room right before Ava Sterling.
- Clara Voss and the guest drinking the earl grey are the same person.
The complete text walkthrough
0:00 · Three clues. One solution.
A logic grid puzzle is a chain of small deductions. Let’s close this miniature case together.
0:08 · Every value belongs somewhere.
Three rooms. Three guests. Three drinks. Each room holds one guest and one drink. Every guest and drink appears exactly once.
0:20 · Start with what you know.
Clue one gives us a starting point: Ava Sterling was in Room 2. File Ava there.
0:30 · “Right before” means next door.
The brandy was in the room right before Ava. Ava is in Room 2, so the brandy must be in Room 1.
0:42 · Keep a pair together.
Clara drank the earl grey. They belong in the same room. Room 1 already has brandy. Room 2 already has Ava. Neither room can hold this pair.
0:56 · Only one room remains.
Room 3 is the only place left for Clara and the earl grey. File both there. That placement is forced, not a guess.
1:06 · Finish the guest column.
Ava and Clara are placed. Felix is the only guest left, and Room 1 is the only empty guest slot.
1:16 · Finish the drink column.
Brandy and earl grey are placed. Port is the only drink left. It belongs with Ava in Room 2.
1:26 · Check the whole case.
Ava is in Room 2. Brandy is right before Ava. Clara has the earl grey. Every value appears once, and every clue fits. Case closed.
1:40 · Your next deduction awaits.
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This example is smaller than a full daily case. The same habits carry across: start with a direct clue, keep linked values together, and look for the only place left. You can also compare Verdict and Wordle or explore Sudoku and logic grids.