Logic Puzzle

Lights Out

Turn off all the lights! Clicking toggles adjacent lights too.

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Lights Out

Turn off all the lights to win!

🖱️ Click a light to toggle it

➕ Adjacent lights also toggle

🎯 Level: 1

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About Lights Out

Lights Out is a classic electronic puzzle game released by Tiger Electronics in 1995. The game became a huge hit and spawned numerous variations and digital versions. Its simple rules but challenging gameplay make it perfect for puzzle enthusiasts of all ages.

The core mechanic is brilliantly simple: when you press a button, it toggles not just that light, but all orthogonally adjacent lights as well. This creates a cascading effect where each move affects multiple parts of the puzzle.

Mathematically, Lights Out is related to linear algebra over the field GF(2), making it a favorite subject for mathematicians and computer scientists studying solvability and optimal solutions.

How to Play Lights Out

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Understand the Goal

Your objective is to turn off ALL lights on the grid. When all lights are off, you win!

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Learn the Toggle Mechanic

Clicking any light toggles it AND all 4 adjacent lights (up, down, left, right). A lit light turns off, an off light turns on.

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Think Strategically

Plan your moves carefully. Random clicking usually won't work - you need to think about how each move affects the whole grid.

Tips & Strategies

  • Try the "chase the lights" strategy: work from top to bottom, pressing lights in the row below to turn off lights in the current row
  • Remember that pressing the same button twice cancels out - it's like it was never pressed
  • Corner lights only affect 3 cells, edge lights affect 4, center lights affect 5
  • The order of clicks doesn't matter - only which buttons you press counts
  • If stuck, try clicking in symmetric patterns to maintain balance

Why Play Lights Out?

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Pattern Recognition

Train your brain to see patterns

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Strategic Thinking

Plan moves ahead for success

Quick to Learn

Simple rules, deep gameplay

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Satisfying Solutions

Great sense of accomplishment

Frequently Asked Questions

Lights Out is a classic electronic puzzle game where you must turn off all the lights on a grid. The twist is that pressing a light toggles not just that light, but also all adjacent lights (up, down, left, right).
Click on lights strategically. Each click toggles the clicked light AND all adjacent lights. Think ahead about how each move affects the overall pattern.
Yes! Every puzzle generated in this game is guaranteed to be solvable because it's created by working backwards from a solved state.
One popular approach is to work row by row from top to bottom - first clear the top row by clicking cells in the second row, then clear the second row by clicking the third, and so on.
Higher levels have more initial lights on, making the puzzle more complex. The starting patterns become more challenging as you progress.
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