Puzzle guide A–Z
New to logic grids, ciphers or nonograms? Here's how each type works in a sentence or two, and which Owlbrook books feature it. Every book also teaches its puzzles from scratch with a worked example.
Read the clues, then use a grid of crosses and dots to match people, places and objects until only one arrangement fits. The last fact left standing names the culprit.
Found in: Whodunit? Cozy Mystery Logic Puzzles, The Matchbook Murders Also inside every Owlbrook Grim Tales book.
A message scrambled by a rule: shifted letters, swapped symbols, keywords or grids. Work out the rule and the words appear.
Found in: The Nightshade Ciphers, The Clockwork Witnesses, Seven Nights Dead
Place every suspect in a room of the floor plan so that every numbered fact comes true. The killer is the one left alone with the victim.
Found in: Who Was in the Room? Floor plans also appear in the Owlbrook Grim Tales.
Read the statements, receipts, timetables, maps and phone logs, catch the lie, and name the real killer.
Found in: Case Reopened
Line up who was where, and when, minute by minute, until one alibi breaks.
Found in: Locked in the Waxworks, The Crooked Carnival, The Undertaker’s Casebook
Numbers beside each row and column tell you how many squares to shade, and in what groups. Satisfy every clue and a picture appears.
Found in: Picture Reveal Nonograms Blueprint and memory nonograms also feature in the Owlbrook Grim Tales.
Circle every word on the list. The letters left over, read row by row, spell out the punchline to the joke on the page.
Found in: Punchline Word Search
Clue words have already been played and marked: right letter in the right place, right letter in the wrong place, or not in the word. Use the marks to deduce the one hidden word.
Found in: Five-Letter Word Detective
Find the one path from the outer gate to the center of a round maze, then color the ornamental rings.
Found in: Mandala Mazes
A run of mixed puzzles where each answer becomes a code, a key or a clue for the next. Each chain ends in a deduction, and the final one names the killer.
Found in: Locked in the Waxworks, The Crooked Carnival, The Clockwork Witnesses, Seven Nights Dead, The Undertaker’s Casebook
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