Welcome back to Japanese Puzzles of the Future! This week we'll feature Nurikabe. Click on image to enlarge and print.The rules are simple. The numbers represent islands of unfilled boxes. So a 1 would mean that 1 was unfilled. A 4 would mean there were 4 connected unfilled boxes, etc. No islands are connected. Fill in boxes to reveal islands. There cannot a 2 x 2 box of 4 filled boxes. Use dots to identify boxes you know will be unfilled. There is a great online tutorial here.
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1 comment:
The above Nurikabe puzzle appears to have two slightly different solutions. One of them has a 2x2 block of 4 white squares, however this has never been excluded by any set of rules I have seen - it just looks a bit ugly. The two solutions differ on the 4th and fifth row down, on the left half.
Pedrocelli
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