Hitori

How to play

A shading puzzle. Shade cells so that no number repeats, unshaded, in any row or column — but never shade two cells that touch each other, even edge to edge.

Rules

  • Click a cell once to shade it, again to circle it (definitely keep), again to return it to normal.
  • Once solved, no unshaded number may repeat within any row or column.
  • No two shaded cells may be directly adjacent, horizontally or vertically.
  • A fresh grid is dealt each time you open or reset the page, so every attempt is a new puzzle.

Tips

If a number appears twice in the same row or column, at least one of the two copies must be shaded — start by finding those pairs before worrying about the rest of the grid.