Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 1/10 [with guide] [Achievement Difficulty Rating]
- Offline: 10 [1000
]
- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 1000: 1.5-2 hours [with guide] [Estimated Time to 100%]
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
- Missable achievements: No
- Does difficulty affect achievements: No
- Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No
- Achievement tracking: Yes
Introduction:
“Hashiwokakero is a puzzle in which the numbers resemble islands, through which you draw lines resembling bridges. You have to take the entire board into consideration while progressing piece by piece. You do need to pay attention for this puzzle, but it can be solved smoothly and nicely.” - xbox.com
Hashiwokakero (also known as Bridges) is played on a rectangular grid with no standard size, although the grid itself is not usually drawn. Some cells start out with (usually encircled) numbers from 1 to 8 inclusive; these are the “islands”. The rest of the cells are empty.
The goal is to connect all of the islands by drawing a series of bridges between the islands. The bridges must follow certain criteria:
The rules of this game sound confusing at first but once you understand them, it is rather quite simple. It is highly recommended that you read through the ‘How to Play’ information in the main menu if you want to learn how to play the game without a guide. It explains the rules in detail much better than here.
If you want to practice your skills, the game is available to play online HERE.
Special thanks to The Hidden Levels for the 100% video walkthrough.
Abbreviated Walkthrough:
There are 50 puzzles in total; 14 Easy, 19 Medium and 17 Hard. With each difficulty, the puzzle grid gets larger. You are free to solve these puzzles in whatever order you wish. If following the video provided, difficulty shouldn’t matter.
At any time in the game, select ‘How to Play’ from the main menu and scroll through all 23 pages to earn Learn the basic rules (100G).
It is highly recommended that you earn Shuffle mania (100G) first before you start working on the ‘clear # boards’ achievements so you aren’t repeating puzzles already cleared unnecessarily. Refer to that achievement for more information.
For the remaining puzzles, follow the video provided in Complete conqueror (100G) and clear them at your leisure. Refer to that achievement for more information on how the game functions.
Conclusion:
Puzzle by Nikoli W Hashiwokakero is a gratifying puzzle game. It offers challenging puzzles at mixed difficulties and is sure to satisfy many puzzle enthusiasts. Some thought and puzzle-solving skills are required if you decide to not use this guide, but of course, if you do choose to use this guide, it will be a very easy 1000. Congratulations!
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 1/10 [with guide] [Achievement Difficulty Rating]
- Offline: 10 [1000
]- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 1000
: 1.5-2 hours [with guide] [Estimated Time to 100%]- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
- Missable achievements: No
- Does difficulty affect achievements: No
- Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No
- Achievement tracking: Yes
For questions, comments or feedback, please visit the Achievements and Guide Discussion thread.
Introduction:
“Hashiwokakero is a puzzle in which the numbers resemble islands, through which you draw lines resembling bridges. You have to take the entire board into consideration while progressing piece by piece. You do need to pay attention for this puzzle, but it can be solved smoothly and nicely.” - xbox.com
Hashiwokakero (also known as Bridges) is played on a rectangular grid with no standard size, although the grid itself is not usually drawn. Some cells start out with (usually encircled) numbers from 1 to 8 inclusive; these are the “islands”. The rest of the cells are empty.
The goal is to connect all of the islands by drawing a series of bridges between the islands. The bridges must follow certain criteria:
- They must begin and end at distinct islands, travelling a straight line in between
- They must not cross any other bridges or islands
- They may only run orthogonally (i.e. they may not run diagonally)
- At most two bridges connect a pair of islands
- The number of bridges connected to each island must match the number on that island
- The bridges must connect the islands into a single connected group
The rules of this game sound confusing at first but once you understand them, it is rather quite simple. It is highly recommended that you read through the ‘How to Play’ information in the main menu if you want to learn how to play the game without a guide. It explains the rules in detail much better than here.
If you want to practice your skills, the game is available to play online HERE.
Special thanks to The Hidden Levels for the 100% video walkthrough.
Abbreviated Walkthrough:
There are 50 puzzles in total; 14 Easy, 19 Medium and 17 Hard. With each difficulty, the puzzle grid gets larger. You are free to solve these puzzles in whatever order you wish. If following the video provided, difficulty shouldn’t matter.
At any time in the game, select ‘How to Play’ from the main menu and scroll through all 23 pages to earn Learn the basic rules (100G).
It is highly recommended that you earn Shuffle mania (100G) first before you start working on the ‘clear # boards’ achievements so you aren’t repeating puzzles already cleared unnecessarily. Refer to that achievement for more information.
For the remaining puzzles, follow the video provided in Complete conqueror (100G) and clear them at your leisure. Refer to that achievement for more information on how the game functions.
Conclusion:
Puzzle by Nikoli W Hashiwokakero is a gratifying puzzle game. It offers challenging puzzles at mixed difficulties and is sure to satisfy many puzzle enthusiasts. Some thought and puzzle-solving skills are required if you decide to not use this guide, but of course, if you do choose to use this guide, it will be a very easy 1000
. Congratulations![XBA would like to thank bLaKgRaVy for this Roadmap]
