Star Battle

How to play

A region-placement puzzle. Place exactly one star in every row, every column and every coloured region — and make sure no two stars ever touch, not even at a corner.

Rules

  • Click a cell once to place a star, again to mark it with a dot (ruled out), again to clear it.
  • Every row, every column and every coloured region needs exactly one star.
  • No two stars may be adjacent, including diagonally — a red star means it's clashing with another.
  • The puzzle is solved the instant every row, column and region holds exactly one star with no clashes.

Tips

Mark cells you've ruled out with a dot rather than leaving them blank — once a region, row or column has only one un-marked cell left, that's where its star has to go.