Puzzles

Skyscrapers: Sunflower Heights.

Plant rows of sunflowers so the gardeners around the bed see exactly as many flowers as their clues say.

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Enable JavaScript to play. Your game saves stay in this browser.How to playSelect a square, then use the number pad or press a height. N toggles notes, Backspace or 0 clears, and arrow keys move.

A 4 × 4 bed uses heights 1–4, a 5 × 5 bed 1–5 and a 6 × 6 bed 1–6. No height repeats in a row or column.

A clue outside the grid counts the flowers visible from that side, looking along the row or column. Taller flowers hide every shorter one behind them.

Some beds have a few given flowers that cannot change.

Every grid has exactly one solution. Repeated heights and clues that can no longer be met are marked.

Notes record candidates; placing a height removes it from the notes of its row and column. Hint reveals the selected square, or the first empty or wrong one.

Daily grids are the same for everyone at each size on a UTC day.

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Goal. Plant flowers of every height once in each row and column so each edge clue sees exactly that many flowers.

Seeing flowers

Heights run from 1 to the grid size. No height repeats in a row or column.
A clue counts the flowers visible from its side. A flower is seen only when it is taller than every flower in front of it.
A clue of 1 means the tallest flower stands next to it; a clue equal to the grid size means heights rise one by one.

Counting from the left. Looking along 2 1 4 3 from the left, you see 2 and 4; 1 hides behind 2 and 3 behind 4. The clue is 2. From the right you see 3 and 4, so that clue is also 2.

Help

Every grid has exactly one solution. Repeated heights and clues that can no longer be met are marked.
Notes record candidates. Hint reveals the selected square, or the first empty or wrong one.
Choose 4 × 4, 5 × 5 or 6 × 6, or today's grid.