Yukti #14

Friday 23 October 2026 · The spirit's riddle · Tough

Kind of thinking: Deduction

Yukti #14 was a Tough spirit's riddle, the puzzle for Friday 23 October 2026. Yukti, a daily logic puzzle at playyukti.com, gives everyone the same puzzle each day. Here is the puzzle, and its shortest route with the reason for every step.

The puzzle

The spirit's riddle

Four travellers came to the forest inn, each on a different night, each from a different town, each carrying one thing.

  1. 1. Ravi didn't carry anything small.
  2. 2. Neither the one with the flute nor Ravi came from the fort town.
  3. 3. Neither Kiran nor Leela carried the flute.
  4. 4. Kiran came the night before the traveller from the hill town.
  5. 5. The one who came on Monday isn't Ravi.
  6. 6. Ravi didn't carry anything made of wood.
  7. 7. The one who came on Wednesday isn't Ravi.
  8. 8. Ravi didn't carry anything loud.
  9. 9. The one with the scroll came on an earlier night than the traveller from the river town.
  10. 10. The traveller from the hill town didn't come on Tuesday.
  11. 11. The one with the drum didn't come on Monday.

Then the spirit asks: who carried the flute?

What is the shortest route?

12 steps. Each one follows from the steps before it, and says why.

  1. 1

    Nisha carried the flute.

    Clues 3 and 6 together leave only this choice.

  2. 2

    Ravi carried the scroll.

    It can't be the ring (clue 1) or the drum (clue 8).

  3. 3

    Ravi came on Tuesday.

    It can't be Monday (clue 5), Wednesday (clue 7), or Thursday (clue 9).

  4. 4

    Kiran came on Wednesday.

    Clues 4 and 10 together leave only this choice.

  5. 5

    Ravi came from the market town.

    It can't be the river town (clue 9), the hill town (clue 10), or the fort town (clue 2).

  6. 6

    Leela came on Monday.

    Try any other night and clues 2, 4, and 9 can't all be true.

  7. 7

    Nisha came on Thursday.

    It's the only night left.

  8. 8

    Nisha came from the hill town.

    Clue 4 leaves only this choice.

  9. 9

    Kiran came from the river town.

    Clue 9 leaves only this choice.

  10. 10

    Leela came from the fort town.

    It's the only town left.

  11. 11

    Kiran carried the drum.

    Clue 11 leaves only this choice.

  12. 12

    Leela carried the ring.

    It's the only thing left.

The answer to the spirit: Nisha carried the flute.

Step 6 is the key step: you test every other choice, and none of them fits.

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