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Strategy guide

Lamp Grid strategy

Every white square must be lit, no lamp may shine on another, and a number counts the lamps beside its wall. Use these three steps, easiest first.

Technique 1

A wall that needs every square beside it

If a numbered wall has exactly as many open squares beside it as its number, every one of them takes a lamp.

There is no square to spare, so the wall can only get its lamps there.

Technique 2

A lamp rules out what it lights

No square that a lamp lights, along its row and column up to the next wall, can hold a lamp.

Two lamps that see each other would light one another, which is not allowed. Mark those squares with a dot.

Technique 3

A square nothing else can light

If only one square can still light a white square, that square takes the lamp.

Every white square must be lit, and this is its last chance. Squares behind a wall, or ruled out, can't help.

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