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Tents: Grass Far From Trees

Every tent sits beside a tree, so a square with no tree beside it is grass. It’s the first move in every puzzle, and it clears a big part of the grid at once.

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This is the first of the Tents techniques. Each page shows its technique on the same 10×10 from the game, Hard level 3.

The rule

  1. Go over every empty square.
  2. If none of the four squares beside it (left, right, above, below) is a tree, mark it as grass.

In a real puzzle

On the 10×10 every technique page follows, it’s the very first move, and it marks 30 squares as grass.

Step 1: far from trees Thirty squares have no tree beside them, so none can hold a tent. They are all grass. 2 2 0 5 0 3 1 2 3 2 3 0 2 2 1 3 1 3 1 4
Step 1: thirty squares with no tree beside them are grass.

How often you’ll need it

Once, as the first move, on every one of the game’s 150 levels. It settles 40% of the open squares on Easy, 37% on Medium and 36% on Hard.

Next steps

Questions

Does a tree at a square's corner count?

No. A tent has to be right beside its tree, sharing a side. A square that only touches a tree at a corner is still far from trees.