Contested Space
Expert
Used by Smart Hint
If sending a cell to sea would leave a different island with nowhere left to grow, that cell is land instead.
- Cells that establish the pattern
How it works
- Two different unfinished islands are checked together, not just one at a time.
- If sending a particular cell to sea would leave one of them without enough reachable room to hit its own target — even though the OTHER island isn't the one being reasoned about — that cell must be land instead. This is the cross-island version of the plain reachability check, which only ever looks at one island's own limit.