Deduce #69 — October 22, 2026

Puzzle #69 · Thu, Oct 22

The road trip

The one with the pretzels is the one in charge of the motel.
Imani is earlier than the one with the licorice.
Nora is earlier than the one with the jerky.
The one in charge of the dog is exactly 2 hours after the one with the licorice.
Brady is the one driving at 7am.
Imani is the one in charge of the weather.

How scoring works

Every game on Noggin is marked out of 100, so a day adds up to one number. Here is how this one earns it.

Component	Effect
Solved on the first check	90
Solved on the second	80
Solved on the third	70
Finished in under 7 minutes	+10
Took more than 12 minutes	−10
Each hint taken	−8
Out of checks	Up to 25, for the cells you had right

A perfect Deduce — first check, no hints, inside seven minutes — is exactly 100. A careful eleven-minute solve is 90.

The clock only counts when you solve it. There is no reward for failing quickly, and a slowness penalty on top of a failure would be unkind.

The clock stops while you are reading this.

The same for every game, including streaks and how the day is totalled.