Cafeteria Choices

1. Begin with the cross-category links that lock two items together. Here, Clue 1, Clue 2 connect Lunch, Drink.
2. Clue 1 links Pasta (Lunch) with Lemonade (Drink), so those two items must belong to the same student.
3. Clue 2 links Tacos (Lunch) with Water (Drink), so those two items must belong to the same student.
4. Next, apply the elimination clues to shrink rows and columns before committing to any checks.
5. Clue 5 rules out Cocoa and Water (Drink) for Ava, which forces the remaining options.
6. Clue 6 rules out Cocoa and Water (Drink) for Ben, which forces the remaining options.
7. Clue 7 rules out Pasta and Sushi (Lunch) for Chloe, which forces the remaining options.
8. Whenever a student has only one remaining option in a category, mark it as a check and cross out the rest (one-to-one). Keep propagating until every student has exactly one match in each category.

No. Every GridCipher puzzle is designed to be solvable by deduction alone.

Start with clue 1. It locks in a concrete pairing between two categories, which you can immediately mark on the grid and use to eliminate other options. For example, it pairs Pasta with Lemonade.

Click or tap a cell to cycle blank -> X -> check. Use X for no and check for the confirmed match.