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Featured Puzzle – Mirror Akari #2

ByJacob Valdez

It’s the spooky season, and what’s more spooky than a darkened hallway? Place jack o’lanterns to light up every cell in the grid. Use the mirrors to your advantage.

  • Walls with numbers indicate how many jack o’lanterns must be orthogonally adjacent. Diagonally adjacent placements do not count against this limit.
  • Walls without numbers may have any number of adjacent jack o’lanterns.
  • Jack o’lanterns shine as far as they can in all 4 orthogonal directions. They may not be hit by light from another lantern.
  • Mirrors are double-sided (unless against a wall) and reflect light 90 degrees.

This is a variant on Akari (Light Up) puzzles. Learn to solve normal Akari with our Solving Guide, and watch for a future update about Mirror Akari!.

Want to try it online? Click here!

The completed grid. I hope you enjoyed it!

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