Mosaik (Tages-Anzeiger)
Split the day's grid into rectangles that match their numbers.
Every day: A daily grid for everyone: draw rectangles until every cell is filled, each rectangle the size of the number inside it, with past days in an archive. New puzzle: Daily.
Mosaik is the Tages-Anzeiger's daily spatial puzzle in the Shikaku style. You draw rectangles on the grid until every cell is covered, placing shapes correctly into the mosaic, so each rectangle contains one number equal to its area.
About Mosaik (Tages-Anzeiger)
Mosaik asks for spatial thinking: draw rectangles on the grid until all the cells are filled. In the app's words, you place shapes correctly into the mosaic. Each rectangle surrounds one number, and its size matches that number, as in the Japanese puzzle Shikaku.
A timer runs while you work, and the finished board turns into a colourful patchwork of rectangles. Every reader gets the same grid each day.
It is one of the Tages-Anzeiger's daily games, collected under TA Spiele in the browser and in the paper's app, alongside Wortsuche, Pinpoint, Flow, Bimaru, the sudoku and the crossword. Each game has an archive of earlier days.
It suits fans of calm logic grids such as Shikaku, Queens or Pips.
How to play Mosaik (Tages-Anzeiger)
- Look at the numbers on the grid.
- Drag to draw a rectangle around a number.
- Make each rectangle's area equal to its number.
- Fill every cell with no overlaps.
Tips
- Start with large numbers in tight corners.
- A 1 is always a single cell.
- Prime numbers can only be straight lines.
Questions
What are the rules?
Cover the grid with rectangles, each containing one number equal to its area.
Is it new every day?
Yes, with an archive.
Is it free?
Yes.
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