Puzzles/10x10/Steel Lattice

Steel Lattice, a 10x10 Patches puzzle

Expert10x10·09
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How to play

Fill the grid with rectangles. Each rectangle contains one clue.

Drag to draw a patch. Tap a patch to remove it.

  • Square
  • Wide
  • Tall
  • Any rectangle

A number gives the area. Without a number, work out the size from the surrounding patches.

Keyboard shortcuts

Arrow keys move. Enter starts a rectangle; arrows resize it; Enter places it. Escape cancels. Delete removes a patch. Ctrl/⌘ Z undoes.

Arrow keys move. Enter starts a rectangle; arrows resize it; Enter places it. Escape cancels. Delete removes a patch. Control or Command Z undoes.

About this board

Half the clues show only a shape, but a 25 in the bottom-left anchors everything: it can only be a 5x5 block, and it is fixed from the start. Above and beside it the board becomes a lattice of long beams: an eight-cell strip across the top, a seven-cell column down the middle, and a 2x5 block in the bottom-right that settles in the second round. Several beams are placed only by ruling out positions that would strand a neighbour.

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