Logic grid puzzles, in pictures
A logic grid puzzle gives you a few categories and a handful of clues, and asks you to work out how everything lines up. Hence is one you play on the board itself, with picture clues and a new puzzle every day. Try a tiny one right here.
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Each clue narrows it down.
A tiny Hence puzzle. Use the clues to figure out which picture goes where.
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A new puzzle every day, the same for everyone. Monday's is the easiest, and they build through the week.
What is a logic grid puzzle?
The classic kind comes on paper: a short story, a list of written clues, and a grid where every item in one category meets every item in another. You mark an ✕ where a pairing is impossible and a dot where it must be true, and the grid fills up until each item has exactly one match. Einstein's riddle, also called the zebra puzzle, is the famous example.
The appeal is that nothing is luck. Every puzzle has one solution, and each clue you use rules out something, which makes the next clue useful. Solving one is a chain of small, certain steps.
The same puzzle, on the board
Hence keeps the logic and changes how it's drawn. Each row of the board is one category, such as monsters, hats or sweets, and each column is a position. Every square shows the pictures it could still hold, so the board is the grid: rule a picture out and it disappears from the square, and when one is left it's placed.
The clues are pictures too. How the tiles in a clue are laid out says what it means:
Stacked tiles share a column. The ghost and the crown are in the same column.
Side by side tiles are about position. The rocket and the sun are in neighboring columns.
A red ✕ turns a clue into its opposite. The cyclops is not in the top hat's column.
There's a quick 4x4 and a bigger 6x6 every day, the same for everyone, getting harder from Monday to Sunday. They're free in your browser on a phone or a computer, and you never have to guess.
Everything on this site
Learn: how to play Hence covers the rules and all eight clue types. The guides below go further.
- A Sherlock-style logic game, free and dailyFor fans of Everett Kaser's Sherlock: the same pure deduction, a new puzzle every day.
- Games like Murdle: what to play nextDaily mysteries and logic grids for when the case is closed.
- Games like Clues by SamMore daily deduction with no guessing, once today's suspects are sorted.
- How to solve logic puzzles, step by stepSix techniques that solve zebra and grid puzzles, shown on real boards.
- Einstein's riddle: who owns the fish?The answer to the famous five houses puzzle, worked through clue by clue.
- Picture logic puzzles: deduction you can seeWhat a picture logic puzzle is, and how picture clues work.
- Games like Queens: more daily logicShort daily logic puzzles for your Queens habit.
Frequently asked questions
What is a logic grid puzzle?
A puzzle where several categories must be matched up using clues, such as which person owns which pet. Each item has exactly one match, and you find them all by ruling out what the clues forbid.
Where can I play logic grid puzzles online for free?
Hence has two free logic puzzles every day, a 4x4 and a 6x6, playable in any web browser. Its clues are pictures instead of sentences.
Is Hence a logic grid puzzle?
Yes, drawn differently. Instead of a separate grid of ✕s and dots, the board itself shows what each square can still hold, and the clues are pictures.
Are logic grid puzzles good for beginners?
Yes. Start with small ones. Hence's Monday 4x4 is the gentlest of the week, and the first time you play, a short tutorial walks you through a whole board.
Today's puzzle is waiting
A new 4x4 and 6x6 every day, the same for everyone. Free, in your browser, and you can start right away.