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Featured Puzzle: Lighthouses #1 – Haunted Graveyard

ByJacob Valdez
  • Haunted Graveyard Lighthouse Puzzle

You find yourself in a spooky graveyard, where you’ve lit several lanterns to look for monsters. Mark the grid locations where you find each of them.

  • Lanterns reveal all monsters that share a row and column with it. Nothing blocks the lantern’s light.
  • Numbers count how many monsters are revealed by that lantern.
  • Each monster is lit by at least one lantern.
  • No monster is adjacent to any other monster or lantern in any direction, including diagonally.

This is a themed Lighthouses puzzle. Learn how to solve them with our Solving Guide.

Want to try it online? Click here!

  • Solved Haunted Lighthouse Puzzle

Uh-oh, we’d better get out of here!

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