Deduce #87 — November 9, 2026

Puzzle #87 · Mon, Nov 9

The bowling alley

Owen is the one on lane 3.
Carly is the one on lane 5.
The one with the gray ball is the one on lane 3.
Reba is not the one in the paisley shirt.
The one with the orange ball is exactly 2 lanes after the one in the paisley shirt.
Reba is on a lower-numbered lane than the one in the satin shirt.
The one in the velvet shirt is exactly 3 lanes after the one with the black ball.

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.