畳 Tatamibari #9 EasyMediumHard

How to play

Tatamibari — 畳ばり — is a Japanese tiling puzzle about cutting a floor into mats.

1. Divide the whole grid into rectangles. Every cell belongs to exactly one of them.
2. Every rectangle holds exactly one symbol, and every symbol ends up in exactly one rectangle.
3. The symbol says the shape. A plus means a square, equal in width and height. A vertical bar means taller than wide. A horizontal bar means wider than tall.
4. Four rectangles may never meet at a single point, the way four tatami mats are never laid corner to corner.

• a square
• taller than wide
• wider than tall

Tap a symbol to take up its mat, then drag from one corner of the rectangle to the other to lay it. Tap a cell again to take it back out. Hold a cell to empty it, or hold a symbol to strip its mat back to bare.

On the name

Tatamibari is 畳ばり, from 畳 (tatami, the rush mat) and 張り (hari, laying or covering). The grid is a floor and the regions are mats, which is where the last rule comes from: a Japanese room is never laid so that four mats meet at one point.

The rules in full