The Kitchen Daily find-the-liar puzzle #24 · Oct 12, 2026

About this case

For Daily #24, the family is in the kitchen, on a 6 × 5 board with four short walls inside. The kitchen is the warmest room in the house, and the busiest at breakfast. It’s the family’s first daily in the kitchen. Dad, the Kid, Grandma and Rex were all there, and one of them is fibbing. The day’s question: Who set the kitchen clock ten minutes fast? Their stories turn on the clock, and on each other. Place them in the kitchen so every story fits but one, and that one is your answer.

Date

Monday, October 12, 2026

Board

6 × 5 squares

Walls inside

4

Witnesses

4

In the room

• Fridge tall
• Counter low
• Stove tall
• Clock tall
• Plant tall
• Table low
• Vase low
• Cookie jar low

Tall here: the fridge, the stove, the clock and the plant. Tall things block every view, though not Rex’s nose. The counter, the table, the vase and the cookie jar are low: they block the Kid, who’s short, and nobody else.

How they see in here

• Dad looks straight along his row and column; on this board that’s 6 squares across and 5 down, unless a wall or something tall stops him.

• The Kid sees his row and column too, but he’s short, so the low things in here stop him as well as the tall ones.

• Grandma is nearsighted: two squares along each of her eight directions and no further, anywhere in the kitchen.

• Rex can’t see at all: he smells the eight squares around him, straight through walls and furniture.

Every rule, with pictures, is in How to play.

A tip for this room

Start with the tightest story. Grandma sees only two squares each way, so anything she saw was close to her.

How everyone did

47 detectives have finished Daily #24 so far.

Caught the liar first try

83%

Solved it

91%

Middle time

1:23

Counted from everyone’s first try, once 20 have finished; never a name or anyone’s own time.

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