Tips

If you have never done a logic problem, click here for simple instructions that include a sample and take you through solving the sample puzzle.

Next, click here for some practice puzzles.  Start with the easy ones, and work your way up.  The Great Handmade Heist will require moderate logic problem solving skills.

And here are a few of my tips on how to make solving logic problems easy and fun:

1. Use a pencil!
You will likely make mistakes.  Pencils are your friends for logic problem solving.

2. After getting all the information you can from a clue, go back through the previous clues again.  
New information may help you pull even more out of the clues you have already gone through.

3. Pick apart every clue.
Some clues give you lots of information, but if you don't go through the clues carefully you may miss something.

For example, if a clue says, "Mary spent more money on her dinner than the person with the last name Johnson," you know that Mary's last name is not Johnson.  But you also know that Mary didn't spend the least amount of money, because she spent more than the person whose last name is Johnson.  Using the same logic, you also know that the person whose last name is Johnson did not spend the most money because Mary spent more than they did.  In your chart you would want to be sure to cross out all of this information.

4. Crosscheck your chart often.
Once you start filling in the chart, you will find that filling in one square on the chart may help you fill in something on another square.

For example, {using the same info from above} if you have figured out that Mary's last name is Smith, then you now also know that Smith did not spend the least amount of money. And if you have figured out that Smith ate a hamburger, then you also know that the person that ate a hamburger did not spend the least amount of money.  Filling out ALL of this information on the chart may help you find other solutions.  It will make sense once you are doing it.

5. Don't be afraid to start over.
Sometimes you realize that somewhere along the way you've made a mistake and you're not sure where.  The best thing to do is just start over.  Reprint the chart and start again.