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A FEW CLUES. A LITTLE CURIOSITY.

The Little Village
Logic Club

A slow kettle, a cake stand, a handful of misplaced parcels. Thirty-six small village muddles, waiting for a pencil and a little thought.

36 Large-Print Puzzles with Gentle Clues, Helpful Hints and Step-by-Step Solutions

PDF · 29 pages · Includes grids, hints and worked answers

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The Little Village Logic Club by Hazel Maple. Paperback front cover with three village houses.
By Hazel Maple
36original logic puzzles
132pages to explore
16-pointmain text and clues

FROM THE BOOK · PUZZLE 01

The early kettle

Start with three neighbours, three drinks and three places in line. New to logic grids? Follow our step-by-step solving guide.

At the village cafe, three neighbours collect a different drink each. The kettle is slow, so only one order is ready at a time. Match each neighbour with a drink and work out the order in which the three drinks are collected.

The neighbours
Amira · Ben · Cleo
The drinks
Mint tea · Cocoa · Coffee

Use a pencil and paper to note who comes first, second and third, and which drink each person collects. Each person and drink has a different place.

Your three clues

  1. The Mint tea entry is earlier in the order than Cleo.
  2. The Coffee entry is not first.
  3. Amira is immediately before the Mint tea entry.

“Earlier” can mean any earlier place. “Immediately before” means the place directly before.

A small nudge

Clue 1: Mint tea must be first or second.

If the Mint tea entry were third, there would be no later place for Cleo.

See the answer and how it follows
PlacePersonDrink
FirstAmiraCocoa
SecondBenMint tea
ThirdCleoCoffee
  1. Mint tea is before Cleo, so it cannot be third.
  2. Amira is immediately before Mint tea, so Mint tea cannot be first either. Mint tea is second and Amira is first.
  3. Cleo comes after Mint tea, so Cleo is third. That leaves second place for Ben.
  4. Coffee is not first, and Mint tea is second. Coffee is third, leaving Cocoa first.

Every clue fits. The book includes a separate hint and a worked solution for every puzzle.

KEEP A LITTLE VILLAGE ON YOUR TABLE

Five more muddles
to make sense of.

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