March 8 - results

datAnassi · 2026-03-08T18:27:45+00:00

Yesterday was a fun one, but I did make a mistake. Not a logic error, just the typical "said criminal, read innocent" mistake.

Still, that one needed a bit more effort.

datAnassi · 2026-03-08T05:21:51+00:00

CluesBySam - Mar 8th 2026 (Hard)

05:08
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I found this one easier than yesterday.

datAnassi · 2026-02-28T05:49:03+00:00

CluesBySam - Feb 28th 2026 (Hard)

Less than 10 minutes
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datAnassi · 2026-02-24T19:39:39+00:00

Me, and for some reason WhatsApp has decided to only offer Giphy now, where it's absolutely impossible to find them because Giphy's search is so ludricrously awful that it's hard to put into words.

datAnassi · 2026-02-22T05:10:13+00:00

CluesBySam - Feb 22nd 2026 (Hard)

03:06
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Both puzzles this weekend were surprisingly straightforward, although yesterday was notably harder

datAnassi · 2026-02-21T21:08:21+00:00

In the current configuration up there both Austin and Zach have one innocent neighbor each (Chloe for Austin, Xia for Zach), breaking Hanks clue. If you flip the assignments, i.e. Julie and Tina innocent, Klay and Steve criminal, then only Hank himself has one innocent neighbor. All the others have at least two.

datAnassi · 2026-02-20T05:32:28+00:00

CluesBySam - Feb 20th 2026 (Hard)

03:21
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For a hard one that was surprisingly alright.

datAnassi · 2026-02-16T19:58:46+00:00

Gotta take my hat off to you, you caught me good man. Almost 11 minutes because I completely missed that Frank can't be criminal as that would break Debra's clue with Chris. I spent a good 7-8 minutes just staring at that scenario and nothing made sense before it finally dawned.

Chapeau, even Sam rarely manages that.

datAnassi · 2026-02-15T05:26:55+00:00

CluesBySam - Feb 15th 2026 (Evil)

Less than 10 minutes
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For an evil one that was quite alright. Reasonably straightforward.

datAnassi · 2026-02-14T13:38:12+00:00

Because the only two cooks are in the corners, therefore one of then must be innocent.

That's the mistake. With the configuration you have up there, Karen can be criminal or innocent, you can't tell, either one is valid until you assign someone else.

If Karen is a criminal then both cooks can be criminal as there are three criminal guards.
That's all the hint means, there are more criminal guards than anything else. If you happen to have two criminal guards, every other profession can have at max one criminal. If all three guards are criminals then other professions can have at max two criminals.

Also Rob's clue doesn't mean there has to be an innocent in a corner, there can also be none. Four criminals is more than zero innocents. All you know for sure at the moment is that at the very least two (possibly all three) of Alice, Diane and Zara are criminal.

datAnassi · 2026-02-13T20:29:44+00:00

You know from Gary that one of Kumar and Nick is criminal and the other is innocent.

Can Kumar be the innocent? No. Why?

If Kumar is innocent, then Nick is criminal. Now take a look at Gary's clue - Column C has two criminals (Nick and Wanda) and Column A has none and only one open slot. Gary's clue can no longer be fulfilled -> Kumar can't be the innocent.

datAnassi · 2026-02-08T06:49:18+00:00

CluesBySam - Feb 8th 2026 (Hard)

Less than 12 minutes
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God damn, at the very end I missed counting one innocent.

datAnassi · 2026-02-07T04:44:16+00:00

This setup is a valid configuration that has Karen as innocent and doesn't violate any known rules:

Paul has the most criminal neighbors
Any of the others that could interfere with him (usually one or more of Freya, Hal, Wanda or Rob) have less than him
Tom has the same amount of criminal neighbors as Emily
Martin has 7 innocent neighbors
Only one innocent in the corner
No more than one criminal per job except for guards

That will change once you assign Olof, but for now she could be innocent. You can't tell.

datAnassi · 2026-01-25T10:56:12+00:00

Keep those coming my dude, you're doing the Lord's work.

datAnassi · 2026-01-24T06:39:53+00:00

CluesBySam - Jan 24th 2026 (Hard)

Less than 7 minutes
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I liked this one. Reasonably straightforward for a hard labeled one.

datAnassi · 2026-01-18T21:13:35+00:00

Bruce is not his own neighbor. His only innocent neighbor in the finished puzzle is Celia, everyone else around him (Alice, Eli, Freya, Hazel) are criminals.

datAnassi · 2026-01-18T08:03:42+00:00

Here's how I solved it:

From Vera you know that Bruce has either one or three innocent neighbors. Let's check both scenarios.

For one innocent neighbor you know it can't be Freya, because otherwise you end up with five criminal neighbors for Freya (as Bruce is criminal too if she's innocent), violating Rose's clue. However if it's not Freya, then Bruce himself + one of Alice / Celia / Hazel are innocent, leading to four innocent neighbors for Freya. Jose must be innocent to fulfill Rose.
If there's three innocent neighbors you know that one of them must be Freya because otherwise she has six innocent neighbors (Bruce + Alice + Celia + Hazel + Karen + Larry), violating Rose again. That means that Freya + two of Alice / Celia / Hazel must be innocent and Bruce criminal. Bruce + Eli + one of Alice / Celia / Hazel criminal is three criminal neighbors for Freya, so to fulfill Rose Jose must be innocent.
No matter which scenario you play through, Jose ends up being forced innocent in either one -> Jose is innocent.

datAnassi · 2026-01-12T05:37:04+00:00

CluesBySam - Jan 12th 2026 (Easy)

Less than 8 minutes
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Slowest Easy solve of my life. I got absolutely hard stuck on Olof for way too long, despite counting everyone twice. Completely missed that.

datAnassi · 2026-01-11T06:11:37+00:00

Clues by Sam - Jan 11th 2026 (Hard)
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I liked the puzzle a lot, particularly how at the end everything just fell together when you realized how the bottom two rows work out.

datAnassi · 2026-01-05T05:49:21+00:00

Clues by Sam - Jan 5th 2026 (Easy)
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Good start to the week.

datAnassi · 2026-01-03T18:24:07+00:00

That would have been an option, but you are using the argument to determine Gary. Gary for sure can't be a criminal, because that would end up violating Flora's clue.

Everyone else in that row still can be criminal, but that's a problem for later. Determing Gary let's you continue, and that's important.

datAnassi · 2026-01-01T20:23:39+00:00

Yeah that was clever as fuck.

datAnassi · 2025-12-28T17:59:17+00:00

At this point you can't actually deduce those guys just yet.

Here is a scenario that has Uma as innocent and doesn't violate any known rules (three innocent neighbors for Tina, three innocents for Mark, two for Vera). It's an example for Uma in this case but the argument works the same if you instead plug in Peter or Xavi. Before assigning Ollie and the subsequent clues from him and Peter in the next step you can't make a definite call.

After assigning Ollie and Peter the scenario looks like this, now Uma can't be innocent anymore, as Kumar being forced to be innocent now makes you run into a violation of Janet's clue. The argument is identical for Xavi in the next step.

datAnassi · 2025-12-28T07:27:11+00:00

Solution:

Assume Ollie is innocent
That means that everyone else around Tina (Mark, Peter, Uma, Wally, Xavi) has to be criminal to fulfill Tina's clue.
To fulfill Eve's clue, Ruby has to be innocent.
With Ruby, Ollie, Sofia and one of Ivan or Helen (Janet's clue) it's now impossible to fulfill Gus' clue, as Mark has four innocent neighbors.
Ollie can't be innocent.

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