How to play Lights Out

Every tile is a light that's either on or off. Tapping a tile flips it and the tiles directly above, below, left and right of it. The goal is simple to state and tricky to do: turn all the lights off.

Tips

  • Order doesn't matter and tapping the same tile twice cancels out — so focus on which tiles to press, not the sequence.
  • A classic technique is "chasing the lights": clear row by row from the top, pressing the tile below each lit one, then fix the bottom row.
  • Every puzzle here is generated to be solvable. Try the 3×3 board first, then step up to 5×5.

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