nurikabe

A nurikabe being solved.

Meaning

Noun

A Japanese logic puzzle with a rectangular grid of squares, some of them numbered; the solver is challenged to fill in a subset of squares (under certain constraints) such that each numbered square finally indicates the number of unfilled squares contiguous to it.

Origin

From Japanese ぬりかべ.

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