Puzzles/5x5/Tiny Tension

Tiny Tension, a 5x5 Patches puzzle

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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

Only five clues, and the one in the centre gives nothing but a tall icon, so at first it could be almost any column. Settle the edges first: the 2x2 square in the top-left, the wide 6 in the bottom-right and the tall 6 on the right edge. Then ask who can still reach the top-middle cell. Only the centre clue can, and that pins it down.

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