Daily puzzle
2026-09-03 daily answer
Play the board, then read every forced move below.
Time0:00
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Step-by-step reasoning
- Region 5 has only one safe cell left: R5C2.
- R5C2 rules out cells in its row, column, color region, and touching neighborhood.
- A cat at R1C1 leaves no valid completion, so exclude it.
- A cat at R1C3 leaves no valid completion, so exclude it.
- A cat at R1C4 leaves no valid completion, so exclude it.
- A cat at R1C6 leaves no valid completion, so exclude it.
- A cat at R1C7 leaves no valid completion, so exclude it.
- Row 1 has only one safe cell left: R1C5.
- R1C5 rules out cells in its row, column, color region, and touching neighborhood.
- A cat at R2C3 leaves no valid completion, so exclude it.
- A cat at R2C7 leaves no valid completion, so exclude it.
- Row 2 has only one safe cell left: R2C1.
- R2C1 rules out cells in its row, column, color region, and touching neighborhood.
- A cat at R3C3 leaves no valid completion, so exclude it.
- Column 3 has only one safe cell left: R7C3.
- R7C3 rules out cells in its row, column, color region, and touching neighborhood.
- Row 6 has only one safe cell left: R6C7.
- R6C7 rules out cells in its row, column, color region, and touching neighborhood.
- Row 4 has only one safe cell left: R4C4.
- R4C4 rules out cells in its row, column, color region, and touching neighborhood.
- Row 3 has only one safe cell left: R3C6.