A logic-grid puzzle from your own small facts
Ticks and CrossesType a few short lists. Get a puzzle with exactly one answer.
Write each list in matching order - the first items belong together, the second items together. The page deals clues that lead to that answer by pure deduction, and you solve it by ticking and crossing. One run words the clues in a voice you pick.
1 Your lists free
Or drop a .txt or .json file here. Items that look like an email, phone number, handle or link stay out of the puzzle.
2 The puzzle free
Clues
What your ticks say so far
Hints, one move at a time
3 Word the clues metered
One run rewrites the clues, the hints, a title and a one-line introduction in the voice you picked. It never changes the logic: the page checks every worded clue still names the same items and keeps its kind, and falls back to the plain wording for any clue that drifts.
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The page's check
Copy and Share send the lists and clues, not the answer. Markdown and JSON include the answer at the end.
4 Saved puzzles
How it works
Your lists are the answer: the first item of every list goes together, then the second, and so on. The grid and the clues show every list sorted, so that order never leaks. The page draws true clues of four kinds - goes with, not, either-or, and one-and-the-other - in a shuffled order, adds them until its solver reaches the answer by deduction alone, then drops every clue that is not needed. New clues deals a different set for the same answer.
The solver only uses moves a person can make with a pencil: a tick crosses the rest of its row and column, an item with one place left goes there, and each clue is applied to what is already known. The hints are the solver's first few moves. Ticks and Crosses is a puzzle maker - it does not check facts about the people or things you type.