Light Up· Advanced

Goal

Place light bulbs to illuminate all white cells

Rules

  • Tap an empty cell to place a bulb. Bulbs emit light in all 4 directions until blocked by a wall.
  • Bulbs must not shine on each other (no two bulbs in the same row/column without a wall between them).
  • A number on a wall indicates exactly how many bulbs must be placed in the 4 adjacent cells.
  • Walls without numbers have no constraint on adjacent bulbs.
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Walls with 0 can't have any adjacent bulbs — mark X on all neighboring cells first.

Walls with 4 require bulbs on all four sides.

Corner and edge number walls have fewer possibilities, making them easier to solve.

Light Up is an NP-complete problem requiring constraint propagation and logical reasoning. Regular practice with constraint satisfaction puzzles has been shown to enhance prefrontal executive functions and reasoning ability.

  • McPhail, B. (2005). Light Up is NP-complete. Unpublished manuscript.
  • Constraint satisfaction tasks activate prefrontal executive functions (Neuropsychologia, 2018)