This is a 5x5 grid. Look at the numbers next to the rows and columns. They tell you how many filled squares there will be in that line. Solve the highlighted row first by clicking the squares you know are filled.
Notice that the 5 for that row is gone now; the numbers for solved lines disappear. Now let's solve the 5 column. It should be easy too.
The 4 means that there are 4 squares filled, without any gaps. Because the 1st square is filled, remaining 3 must be next to it. That means the last square in the row is blank, so don't click it!
Use the same logic to solve highlighted column.
Can you handle this one on your own? There's only one filled square left; figure out which it is, and click it!
When there's more than one number, the groups of filled squares must be divided by gaps of at least one empty square. So here, 3 1 means that there are 3 filled squares, a gap, and 1 more filled square.
Just like last time, 2 2 means that there are 2 filled squares, then a gap, then 2 more filled squares. On a 5x5 grid, it's pretty easy to figure out where they have to go!
The easiest lines to solve are the ones where the sum of the filled squares and mandatory gaps is equal to the grid size. For instance, in the last row, you know there must be three filled squares and two gaps, so there's only one possibility.
Uh oh! Now we have 3 filled squares and 2 empty ones. This gives us 3 possibilities, as shown in the animation. But notice that in all these possibilities, there's one square that's always filled; mark that one as solved!
Since the second column is now complete, there's no way a three-tile block can fit into the indicated spot. Mark that tile as empty by using the right mouse button or the Hammer tool.
Remember to change your tool back to HAND
That means the other three tiles in this row need to be filled.
For the second row, there's now only one way to fit a 2 and a 1, so solve that.
As you can see, there is also only one way to fit 3 in third column.
Now there's just one more tile to be filled.
Now it's time to start playing with color! Let's do yellow first. This should be really easy for you. Once you've finished solving the yellow tiles, the color will switch automatically.
Now that you've finished with yellow, it's time to move on to white. You can see that the highlighted tiles will all need to be filled, so do that now.
Uh oh, we dont have enough information to solve the last few white tiles. That means its a good time to switch to our last color, blue, and see if that helps us.
Great! Now, let's take care of this 5 - there is only one place in the first row, where 5 blue tiles can fit. Uncover them.
Here there's only one way we can fit an eight-tile block in the rightmost column. Fill those tiles in.
There has to be a gap where the highlighted tile is, so mark that one as empty.
From here it should be pretty easy for you to fill in the rest of the blue tiles.
Now that weve filled in all the blue, it should be obvious where the last two white ones go. Fill those in and youre done!
