Questions tagged [lights-out]
A type of puzzle typically involving a grid of lights, in which the challenge is to get them all to the same state (on or off). The trick is that each light also affects a number of its neighbors, with sides and corners affecting fewer.
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Board with all 2020s
Zeroes are written in all cells of a $5 \times 5$ board. We can take an arbitrary cell and increase by 1 the number in this cell and all cells having a common side with it. Is it possible to obtain ...
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Will you be the first to get free?
It is your first day in prison and you are approached by a guard having a hunch for puzzles.
He tells you that he gives every new prisoner the chance to be freed if they can present him with a version ...
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A generalization of the lights-out problem
Look here for the original problem.
Let the set $J$ be the set of pairs of positive integers $(m,n)$ with $m\ge n$.
Suppose $(m,n)\in J$. Then there are $m$ lights, which they are initially off. ...
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What's the name of this kind of puzzle? [closed]
Link to a video of a the puzzle
What is this puzzle called, and if possible, what is the logic behind it?
Clicking a square inverts the state of the square and the ones directly adjacent to it, and ...
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Is there any easy way to solve this lock puzzle?
https://js13kgames.com/games/lock-puzzle/index.html
The link provides an online puzzle game of $16$ tiles in the form of a $4 \times 4$ matrix of which some entries are in the form of vertical tiles ...
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Fill 5 x 5 grid
In each cell of a 5 × 5 square there is a token that is black on
one side and white on the other. Initially all tokens are placed
with the white side facing up. On each move three tokens in
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I am struggling with a complex version of the "lights out" puzzle
Hello my fellow puzzlers. I am new to this holy land so if my question is not the kind you people like to solve, I apologize.
As some of you may know, there is a puzzle named: "lights out" based on a ...
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Which Lightbulb belongs to the switch [duplicate]
There is an old house with an upstairs room and a downstairs room.
the upstairs room contains 3 light bulbs and the downstairs room contains 3 switches. Each switch is connected to one light bulb.
A ...
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Strategy for Modified Lights out
A friend of mine showed me a variation of lights out that they were interested in, and asked me if it would be possible to solve any given empty grid. This variation involves toggling not just the ...
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Is a game of Knight's out possible?
In lights out, there is a grid of cells (called lights) that can assume two states. All lights start off. You can toggle a given light, and it will automatically toggle its four neighbours. The aim of ...
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Grid based color changing puzzle
I am trying to identify the minigame used in the game Fontanero (the code for it is here). It consists of a 3x3 grid of squares, and each square is red or green. You can click on a square to invert ...
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Turn on all squares
Take a square grid of size $a\times b$, with all squares being off. You can tap a square, to reverse the state of that square and all squares located in the same column and row as the tapped square. ...
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Counter Flipping
A counter flip game is played in the following way:
In each move, you can flip an entire row or column
Flipping a row or column inverts all the counters on that row or column from $X$ to $O$ or vice ...
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Lights out game on a chessboard
Alice and Bob play a game with an 8×8 grid of lights, all initially on. They take turns choosing a light which is on and turning it off, with Alice going first. However, the grid is rigged such that ...
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Christmas light horror story!
Inspired by stories of strangely behaved Christmas lights here on Puzzling, I feel comfortable now to share my own Christmas light horror story.
It all started when I ordered a grid of star lights on ...
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