How to play Lights Out
Tap a tile to flip it and its 4 neighbours. Solved when every light is off.
Rules
Turn every light off. Tapping a tile flips it and its four neighbours.
- 1Tap any tile to flip it from on to off (or off to on)
- 2The same tap also flips the tiles directly above, below, left and right
- 3Edge tiles affect fewer neighbours — corner taps flip just three tiles
- 4Win when every tile on the board is dark
What it trains
- Main ability
- Systematic thinking
- Brain Map skills
- DisciplineLogicPlanning
Where you’ll play it
The Lights Out puzzle turns up in the daily challenges, which are the same for every player. To learn it with nothing at stake, open Practice in the app and pick it at the difficulty you want.