Quiet browser puzzles and board game guides, arranged for focused play.
1 player · 3-15 min per session
Fill every cell so each side-connected region contains exactly as many cells as the number inside it. Separate regions with the same number may not touch side to side.
Fill every cell so each side-connected region contains exactly as many cells as the number inside it. Separate regions with the same number may not touch side to side.
This is a number-entry Fillomino, not a manual border-drawing editor. You select a cell, enter a value from the on-screen keypad or keyboard, and the game shows region lines automatically from the numbers you have placed. It also includes hint, restart, export, and load features, so it feels closer to a guided digital puzzle than a bare paper grid.
In many books and magazines, solvers think in terms of borders first: they sketch region edges, add missing numbers as notes, and gradually prove which cells belong together. The core rule is the same as this build, but the play feel is different. Here you never draw the walls yourself; filling numbers is enough, and the game visualizes the region borders for you.
In widely known Fillomino rules, a finished region can sometimes have no starting clue at all, and two matching givens may even end up inside the same final region. This build does not use that looser clue style. Every final region starts with exactly one given number, which makes the opening more approachable and keeps the board easier to read for casual players.
Some Fillomino versions leave almost all checking to the player until the end. This version is gentler. Wrong numbers are highlighted against the finished solution, Hint locks one correct cell, and Restart clears your entries on the same board. That makes it easier to learn patterns without getting stuck for too long.
The wider Fillomino family also includes alternate presentations such as Allied Occupation, and Wikipedia notes related experiments on other grid types. Those are not what you play here. This build stays with the standard square-grid number-region format because it is the easiest version for most players to pick up quickly.
Fillomino is a Japanese logic puzzle published through Nikoli's Puzzle Communication magazine. Wikipedia describes it as appearing in Japan in the 1980s and later being republished by many puzzle publishers in other countries. The larger Nikoli story helps explain that spread: founder Maki Kaji built a culture around hand-crafted, language-light puzzles, and Reuters and The New York Times later described how that approach helped Japanese puzzle design reach a global audience.
No. This build uses the easier digital style: you fill numbers, and the game shows the region borders automatically from the values on the board.
Not quite. The core idea is the same, but this build is friendlier: each final region begins with one clue, wrong cells are highlighted, and you can use hints, export, and load.
No. Restart clears your current input and hints on the same board. Use New Game when you want a fresh puzzle or a different difficulty.
Yes. The top menu includes Export and Load, so you can copy your current board state into a code and continue later.
