Daily Square / #28
Daily Square #28.
Wednesday 28 October 2026: a 5 × 5 garden with 8 slimes.
Wednesday is the middle of the week. Below: the clue board, the first 3 steps the in-game hint would show, and the solved board.
The puzzle.
Grow each slime to its number, fill every open cell and keep colonies of the same size from sharing an edge. 17 cells start empty.
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The first steps.
Each step is one the game's hint would give you on an empty board. The dashed cell is the one placed in that step.
Step 1. Row 1, column 2. The dashed cell is the only way out for this 2-slime, so it must grow there.
Step 2. Row 3, column 1. Without the dashed cell, this 4-slime would be boxed into 2 cells, so it must grow there.
Step 3. Row 4, column 1. Without the dashed cell, this 4-slime would be boxed into 3 cells, so it must grow there.
The solution.
Every Daily Square has exactly one solution, and it can be reached by logic alone.
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