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Light Up Solver

Solve a Light Up (Akari) puzzle by placing the bulbs.

Light Up, also called Akari, asks you to place bulbs on a grid so that every white cell is lit. A bulb lights its own cell and shines along its row and column until a wall stops it, no two bulbs may shine on each other, and a numbered wall must touch exactly that many bulbs. Click a cell to cycle it through white, a plain wall, and walls numbered 0 to 4, then solve.

Click a cell to cycle white, wall, then walls numbered 0 to 4.

How it works

Each row and column of white cells between walls is a segment that can hold at most one bulb, and a cell is lit when its row segment or its column segment has a bulb. The solver decides each white cell bulb or empty, keeps every numbered wall on track for its exact count, and never leaves a cell that can no longer be lit.

A proper Light Up puzzle has a single arrangement of bulbs; the solver reports when more than one works.