Sherlock Puzzles (Puzzleship)

In Sherlock Puzzles every category has its own row, and each column must end up with exactly one item from each row. Every cell starts as a set of candidate tiles, and you click candidates to eliminate them until one remains. Some puzzles reveal a few tiles at the start; others leave the whole grid open.

The clues talk about positions and relationships: two items in the same column, items never next to each other, one item somewhere left of another, items in consecutive columns, items not between two others. Same-column clues are the strongest, since they tie two items together for good. Settling an item clears it from the rest of its row automatically, which is a good moment to reread the clues touching that row. The clues are drawn as rows of emoji tiles with arrows and crosses rather than sentences, so the puzzle reads the same in any language.

Puzzleship publishes six puzzles of Sherlock Puzzles a day, graded from very easy to ultra hard. Each day's puzzles are numbered and dated, the same for every player, and go up at 13:00 UTC (the page itself says midnight your time, but the new set arrives at 13:00 UTC); earlier days stay playable in the archive. The site is free with ads, and a premium plan removes them.

Puzzleship is run by Brainzil, LLC, which publishes a long shelf of daily logic, word, maths and chess puzzles in the same six-level format. Sherlock Puzzles suits players who like Einstein or zebra puzzles but would rather see every possibility on the board than keep a grid of crosses on paper.