Picnic Partners

1. Begin with the cross-category links that lock two items together. Here, Clue 1 connect Blanket, Drink.
2. Clue 1 links Plaid (Blanket) with Soda (Drink), so those two items must belong to the same camper.
3. Next, apply the elimination clues to shrink rows and columns before committing to any checks.
4. Clue 5 rules out Iced Tea and Water (Drink) for Pia, which forces the remaining options.
5. Clue 6 rules out Striped and Solid (Blanket) for Ravi, which forces the remaining options.
6. Clue 7 rules out Soda and Lemonade (Drink) for Sara, which forces the remaining options.
7. Whenever a camper 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 camper 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 Plaid with Soda.

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