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Tents and TreesPuzzle, Logic, Casual

Tents and Trees

Pitch one pavilion beside every heartwood elder, and never let two touch.

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Tents and Trees

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About Tents and Trees

Place one tent beside each tree while matching the row and column totals. Tents cannot touch, even diagonally. Each tree and tent must have its own partner.

How to play

Goal
Pitch one pavilion beside each elder tree, matching every row and column count.
How it ends
A grove is solved when every tree has its own pavilion, no two pavilions touch and every count is right. There is no way to lose.
Record
The fastest first solve of each grove, with its holder's name.
  1. Tap a cell to cycle open ground, pavilion, cleared moss — and drag across cells to clear a run of moss in one mark.
  2. Each elder needs its own pavilion orthogonally beside it, and no two pavilions may touch, even diagonally.
  3. Fill every rank and file with exactly the number its cairn carries: a cairn lights when its rank is right and burns red when it holds too many.
Worked example for Tents and Trees
Worked example. See how the rules apply to a real position.

Controls

InputAction
Tap / clickCycle a cell: open ground, pavilion, cleared moss
Right clickCycle the other way
DragClear a run of moss in one mark
Arrow keysMove between cells
T / G / DeletePitch, clear, or empty the focused cell
Z / R / EscapeUndo, restart, or return to the roll

Good to know

All 120 groves are open, deterministic, proved to need no guess and independently counted to one answer. No hints or mistake checks are available. Named fastest times, completion, one saved attempt, sound and reduced-motion preference persist in this browser.

Watch how to play

The rules, then Grove 1 played start to finish. Played by an automated player at a person's pace; the narration is a synthetic voice. English captions.

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