Free Christmas Mini-Mystery Puzzle (Large Print)

Here is a free Christmas mystery you can solve in one sitting. In The Case of the Borrowed Star, retired postmistress Mabel Pike and her basset hound Biscuit find the tin star missing from the top of the post office Christmas tree in Tern Harbor, Maine, and a polite note hidden in a tin of cookies. Four neighbors left presents that morning. Which one borrowed the star?

Read the two-page story, then work out the answer on a large print logic grid. Every clue you need is on the page, and the solution (with how the clues fit together) is on page four. Cozy and clean: no gore, nothing scary, good for a book club, a family visit or a senior center activity hour.

Printing tip: print at Actual size or 100% so the letters stay large (every letter is 16.5 point or bigger).

Liked it? Mabel's full Christmas case runs all December as a puzzle advent calendar for adults: one chapter and one puzzle a day until Christmas Eve.

Download the PDF (puzzle + answers)