For exceptional logic element management, a method encodes a logic design as a linear array that includes a plurality of logic states. Each logic state includes one or more binary output variables, one or more binary input variables, one or more minterms of the one or more binary input variables, one or more maxterms of the one or more minterms, one or more present state values, and one or more next state values. The method identifies an exceptional logic element, wherein the exceptional logic element comprises one or more of an exceptional logic state, an exceptional state transition, and an exceptional input combination. In addition, the code displays the plurality of logic states excluding the exceptional logic elements from display.