GridWits

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.

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How it works

  1. Two different unfinished islands are checked together, not just one at a time.
  2. 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.