A Teachers Pay Teachers logic listing sells one deduction skill on one page, plus an answer key the teacher can trust tomorrow morning. It is not a 120-page paperback, not a mixed “brain games” grab-bag, and not an arithmetic drill with a puzzle border. Logic puzzles earn their slot in the day because the reasoning is the lesson — no number facts required beyond counting.
This page is the family map for that shelf: what the TPT file has to be, and how eight Puzzle Maker Pro logic modules differ once they are a worksheet. It is not a generate walkthrough and not a how-to-play lesson. The math side (small arithmetic boards) is a separate umbrella article; this one is pure logic.
The four-channel map covers what a worksheet is against an interior, a printable pack, and a playable embed. This page is the TPT logic shelf.
What the TPT buyer is actually buying
A teacher scanning search results needs three answers fast: which skill, which grade band, and whether the key is included. “Fun logic puzzles!” answers none of them. “Shading logic warm-up, one page + key” answers all three.
The contract is the same as every other TPT puzzle listing: one skill in the title, US letter, a page that survives a photocopier, and a separate clean answer page. No title page, no “this book belongs to,” no 80-puzzle dump so the file feels like a book. TPT’s own resource license is an Individual License (one teacher, their classroom); extra colleagues need additional licenses. Extra rights are seller-authored terms on top of that — not a school license you attach.
What is different about logic is the answer format. A word search key circles words; a sudoku key fills digits. Logic puzzles split four ways, and the split decides what the worksheet and its key look like.
Four looks, one category
Shade or mark cells
The student’s answer is a mark inside existing cells — nothing is drawn across the grid.
Hitori is the cleanest shading page: a number grid where repeats get shaded out, shaded cells never touch, and the white cells stay connected. Every board is generated with exactly one solution and is guess-free, which is a claim you can put in the listing. Binary (Takuzu) fills a grid with two states — no three alike in a line, each row and column balanced — and reads well at small sizes, so grade banding is just grid size (6×6 up to 16×16). Queens places one queen per row, column, and region with no two touching; the puzzle page shows only the regions, so the key is the whole answer — do not upload it without one.
Draw one loop
Slitherlink is the loop page: clue digits count the loop segments around each cell, and the student draws a single closed loop on the dot lattice. It photocopies badly if the dots go grey — keep contrast high. This is the most “rules explanation needed” member of the family, so a one-line rule on the page earns its space; a full how-to-play booklet does not.
Split the grid
The answer is a set of borders. Shikaku divides the grid into rectangles, each containing exactly one number that equals its area — area reasoning a math teacher can point at without stretching. Galaxies (Tentai Show) partitions the grid into regions that are point-symmetric around printed dots — the symmetry lesson hiding in a puzzle page. Both keys are the drawn borders, so the key page needs the same line weight as the puzzle page.
Connect the pairs, lay the track
The answer is a path through cells. Numberlink connects matching number pairs with paths that never cross — planning and spatial reasoning on an otherwise empty grid. Train Tracks lays one continuous track from an entry on the left edge to an exit on the bottom, with row and column counts saying how many cells carry track; by default every board is guess-free with a single solution, and the “allow guessing” mode is an expert option you should name in the listing if you use it.
One skill per listing
Eight modules is eight listings, not one ZIP called “logic puzzle mega pack.” A teacher searching shading logic should land on a Hitori file, not scroll past slitherlink pages to find it. Mixed packets are fine when the title says mixed — but the default that sells and gets reviewed well is one skill, one difficulty band, one key.
Grade banding in this family is honest and mechanical: grid size and difficulty setting, stated in the title or subtitle. A 6×6 Binary is a warm-up; a 14×14 is not. Do not stamp a grade on an expert board and hope.
What “done” looks like in a TPT preview
- Page one is the named puzzle, matching the title and the look (shading, loop, regions, paths).
- The answer key is a separate clean page — mandatory for Queens, where the puzzle page shows no answers at all.
- Line weight survives a classroom copier: solid shading, dark dots, borders that do not fade to grey.
- Difficulty is in the title (grid size, band), not buried in the description.
- Uniqueness claims match the generator. Hitori and Train Tracks check it; do not invent that guarantee for every module.
- No how-to-play booklet padding the file. One rule line per page is enough.
Playable extras (newest modules can export online play) are a separate product from a TPT PDF. If you run a site, that is a homework or sample path — not what the TPT buyer is downloading.
Commercial rights for finished puzzles on Teachers Pay Teachers are part of the Puzzle Maker Pro license as stated on the homepage. That is not a substitute for TPT’s own content rules.
The whole point
TPT logic is a category with four worksheet looks: shade or mark, draw one loop, split the grid, connect the pairs. Eight modules cover it. Pick one skill per listing, make page one look like that skill, put a complete key behind it, and stop before the file turns into a book.