Deduce #91: The yard sale — the solution

The Deduce puzzle from November 13, 2026, worked through clue by clue: 6 clues, 3 rounds of crossing off, and no guessing anywhere.

The puzzle

Four people — Zeke, Shane, Clint and Faith — and three things to work out about each: their item, house and table. The clues only ever rule things out.

1. Shane is the one selling the records.
2. Clint is not the one selling the clock.
3. Clint is the one at table 4.
4. Zeke is the one at the blue house.
5. The one at the white house is at a lower-numbered table than the one selling the desk.
6. Faith is exactly 2 tables after the one at the tan house.

The walkthrough

A round is one pass over the clues. Each round applies what the last one settled; every step below is an elimination the clues force, in the order a solver would take them.

Round 1

Start with every possibility open, and take the clues in order.

Clue 1, “Shane is the one selling the records”: records comes off Zeke, Clint and Faith. That settles it: Shane’s item is records.

Clue 2, “Clint is not the one selling the clock”: clock comes off Clint.

Clue 3, “Clint is the one at table 4”: table 4 comes off Zeke, Shane and Faith. That settles it: Clint is at table 4.

Clue 4, “Zeke is the one at the blue house”: blue comes off Shane, Clint and Faith. That settles it: Zeke’s house is blue.

Clue 6, “Faith is exactly 2 tables after the one at the tan house”: tan comes off Clint and Faith; table 2 comes off Shane and Faith; table 5 comes off Shane; table 3 comes off Faith. That settles it: Shane is at table 3 and Faith is at table 5.

Round 2

Go back over the clues with the new facts in hand.

Nobody but Shane can still have tan, so Shane’s house is tan.

table 3 is Shane’s, so it comes off Zeke.

table 5 is Faith’s, so it comes off Zeke. That settles it: Zeke is at table 2.

Clue 5, “The one at the white house is at a lower-numbered table than the one selling the desk”: desk comes off Zeke and Clint; white comes off Faith. That settles it: Clint’s item is mirror and Faith’s house is green.

Round 3

Go back over the clues with the new facts in hand.

Mirror is Clint’s, so it comes off Zeke and Faith. That settles it: Zeke’s item is clock.

Nobody but Faith can still have desk, so Faith’s item is desk.

Green is Faith’s, so it comes off Clint. That settles it: Clint’s house is white.

The answer

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About Deduce

Deduce is Noggin’s daily logic grid: four people, three things to work out about each, and clues that never hand you an answer. Every puzzle has exactly one solution and can be finished by crossing off alone. How to play Deduce, or play today’s.