Studio Schedule

1. Begin with the cross-category links that lock two items together. Here, Clue 1, Clue 2 connect Medium, Time Slot.
2. Clue 1 links Charcoal (Medium) with 11 AM (Time Slot), so those two items must belong to the same artist.
3. Clue 2 links Clay (Medium) with Noon (Time Slot), so those two items must belong to the same artist.
4. Next, apply the elimination clues to shrink rows and columns before committing to any checks.
5. Clue 5 rules out Watercolor and Charcoal (Medium) for Iris, which forces the remaining options.
6. Clue 6 rules out 9 AM and Noon (Time Slot) for Jude, which forces the remaining options.
7. Clue 7 rules out 10 AM and Noon (Time Slot) for Kim, which forces the remaining options.
8. Whenever a artist 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 artist 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 Charcoal with 11 AM.

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