Rasterix (Tagesspiegel)

About Rasterix (Tagesspiegel)

Rasterix is one of the puzzles in the Tagesspiegel games section, alongside Variablo, Wortflip and Zahlenfix. It runs on the Puzzlr games platform, which serves a scheduled grid for each date in the newspaper's time zone, so every player gets the same puzzle on the same day.

The instruction on the page is short: draw matching rectangles around all the numbers. The board is a grid with numbers scattered across it, and every cell must end up inside a rectangle. Each rectangle has to contain one number, and that number must equal the count of cells the rectangle covers. A recent grid was 9 by 11 cells.

This is the puzzle type known as Shikaku, so there is no guessing involved: each step can be reasoned out from the clues. Earlier days sit in an archive that is locked for ordinary visitors. It suits people who like quiet, number-based logic puzzles and German-language newspaper games.

How to play Rasterix (Tagesspiegel)

1. Look at the grid and its numbers; each number is the area of the rectangle that will contain it.
2. Drag to draw a rectangle around a number so that it covers exactly that many cells.
3. Make sure every rectangle contains just one number and that no cells are left uncovered.
4. Fill the whole grid with valid rectangles to solve the day's puzzle.

Tips

• Start with large numbers in tight spaces and with numbers that can only fit one shape.
• A 1 is always a single cell on its own, and prime numbers can only form a single row or column.
• Corners and edges limit the options, so they are often a good place to begin.

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