Logic puzzle · US states
US States Logic Puzzle
Thirty US states hide in a 6 × 5 grid. Fill it in the given order: each clue mixes trivia and logic, using borders, regions, capitals and the states you have already placed. 20 minutes, 30 puzzles. Three wrong answers end the round.
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Each of the 30 cells hides a different state. Fill them in the order given: the highlighted cell shows its clue, and you type its answer. Clues can use the states already in the grid, and “around it” means the cells touching it, diagonals included. Three wrong answers end the round. You have 20 minutes.
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How the puzzles are made
Each puzzle was generated from our data and checked by a solver: filling the cells in the given order, every clue leaves exactly one possible answer among all the countries (or states), using only the answers already in the grid. You never need to guess, and you never need the rule that every answer is different. "Around it" means the up to eight cells touching a cell, diagonals included.
Clues only state what is clearly true, and the solver only rules an answer out when a clue is clearly false for it. "More people" and "larger" mean at least twice as many (half as many again for US states), and one capital is "farther north" than another only by a clear margin of latitude, so close calls never decide anything. For the same reason, a place just above or below tenth place is never ruled in or out of a top ten.
Borders are those of our Border Blitz (river boundaries count), except that states meeting only at the Four Corners or facing each other across a lake or a sound (Michigan–Illinois, Michigan–Minnesota, New York–Rhode Island) are never ruled in or out as neighbours; regions are the four US Census Bureau regions; sizes use the ten largest and ten smallest states by total area (Census TIGERweb) and the ten most populous (Census Vintage 2025), so a comparison only appears when one of those lists settles it; capitals are the official state capitals.
States whose Census region often surprises people (such as Delaware, Maryland, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and the Dakotas) are never ruled in or out by their region.
There are no clues about the letters of a name, so a puzzle is the same in every language and a challenge link works in all of them.
US Census Bureau: Census Regions and Divisions of the United States