The Smudged Slate — Daily puzzle for 2026-10-12

Very Easy — logic-grid deduction puzzle

Imogen, Jasper, Kit and Lorna need help rebuilding the morning feeding slate after damp towels smeared it.

Mornings on the woodland creatures' hospital ward start early, and breakfast goes out one bowl at a time, in a set order. Imogen, Jasper, Kit and Lorna each took one patient and one turn, and wrote it all on the slate by the door. Then someone dropped a stack of damp towels on the slate, and the chalk smeared into a grey blur. All that's left is what people remember hearing in the corridor. Can you work out who fed whom, and when?

Clues

1. Jasper fed a patient later than Imogen but earlier than Lorna.
2. The hedgehog got its breakfast either in the second turn or in the third.
3. Either the badger or the owl was in Kit's care.
4. The owl was not the patient Kit fed.
5. Jasper did not look after the hedgehog.
6. Whoever fed the otter, it was not Lorna.
7. The badger ate in the first turn.

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