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Try this Medium Aquarium puzzle on ThePuzzleLabs.

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Medium Aquarium — what to expect

Medium Aquarium expands to 8×8 with 6 to 8 aquariums. The clue counts are less extreme, so you need forced-fill and forced-empty reasoning more often: when a row needs exactly N more cells and has N undecided spots, all of them must be water. Aquariums start sharing more rows and columns, which means decisions about one aquarium start affecting others.

How to play Aquarium

  • The grid is divided into tanks. Pour water into them.
  • Water settles level: inside one tank it fills from the bottom up, never leaving a gap.
  • So if a cell holds water, every cell of that tank below it holds water too.
  • The number beside each row and above each column counts its filled cells.
  • A 0 means that line stays completely dry. A number equal to the line length means it all fills.
  • Every puzzle has one solution, reachable by logic alone.