GridWits
Easy tier Technique 4 of 9 Used by Smart Hint

Only Light Source

An unlit cell with only one cell left that could light it: that cell holds a bulb.

How it works

  1. 1The corner cell is still dark, and walls cut its row two along and its column two down.
  2. 2So only three cells in the whole grid could ever light it: itself, and the one beside it in each direction.
  3. 3Both of those have already been ruled out.
  4. 4One candidate left, so the bulb stands in the corner itself. This is the technique that finishes most boards once the clues have run dry.
  • Cells that establish the pattern
  • Bulb this technique places
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A bulb that would blind more of a clue's remaining neighbours than the clue can spare is impossible.