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:
“This is a progressive puzzle which you can comfortably enjoy working out using logic. “Heyawake” is a puzzle in which you fill in the spaces according to the rules. It's called “heyawake” (“split rooms”) because the face of the board is divided into rooms. This puzzle first appeared in 1992, but a plethora of solutions have been developed, allowing for a very progressive puzzle. Each time you discover a new strategic move, your skills of solution will improve.” - xbox.com
Heyawake is played on a rectangular grid of cells with no standard size; the grid is divided into variously sized rectangular “rooms” by bold lines following the edges of the cells. Some rooms may contain a single number, typically printed in their upper-left cell; as originally designed, every room was numbered, but this is rarely necessary for solving and is no longer followed.
Some of the cells in the puzzle are to be painted black; the object of the puzzle is to determine for each cell if it must be painted or must be left blank (remaining white). In practice, it is often easier to mark known “blank” cells in some way - for example, by placing a dot in the center of the cell.
The following rules determine which cells are which:
A YouTube PLAYLIST created by PuzzleTeam features videos that further explain the game in layman’s terms and offer videos from leading puzzle solvers that may be helpful as well.
If you want to practice your skills, the game is available to play online HERE.
Special thanks to The Hidden Levels with assistance from Dwaggienite for the 100% video walkthrough.
Abbreviated Walkthrough:
There are 50 puzzles in total; 20 Easy, 14 Medium and 16 Hard. 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 21 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 Heyawake is a challenging puzzle game that many may not have heard of. It offers stimulating 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 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
Introduction:
“This is a progressive puzzle which you can comfortably enjoy working out using logic. “Heyawake” is a puzzle in which you fill in the spaces according to the rules. It's called “heyawake” (“split rooms”) because the face of the board is divided into rooms. This puzzle first appeared in 1992, but a plethora of solutions have been developed, allowing for a very progressive puzzle. Each time you discover a new strategic move, your skills of solution will improve.” - xbox.com
Heyawake is played on a rectangular grid of cells with no standard size; the grid is divided into variously sized rectangular “rooms” by bold lines following the edges of the cells. Some rooms may contain a single number, typically printed in their upper-left cell; as originally designed, every room was numbered, but this is rarely necessary for solving and is no longer followed.
Some of the cells in the puzzle are to be painted black; the object of the puzzle is to determine for each cell if it must be painted or must be left blank (remaining white). In practice, it is often easier to mark known “blank” cells in some way - for example, by placing a dot in the center of the cell.
The following rules determine which cells are which:
- Rule 1: Painted cells may never be orthogonally connected (they may not share a side, although they can touch diagonally)
- Rule 2: All white cells must be interconnected (form a single polyomino)
- Rule 3: A number indicates exactly how many painted cells there must be in that particular room
- Rule 4: A room which has no number may contain any number of painted cells, or none
- Rule 5: Where a straight (orthogonal) line of connected white cells is formed, it must not contain cells from more than two rooms - in other words, any such line of white cells which connects three or more rooms is forbidden - wikipedia.com
A YouTube PLAYLIST created by PuzzleTeam features videos that further explain the game in layman’s terms and offer videos from leading puzzle solvers that may be helpful as well.
If you want to practice your skills, the game is available to play online HERE.
Special thanks to The Hidden Levels with assistance from Dwaggienite for the 100% video walkthrough.
Abbreviated Walkthrough:
There are 50 puzzles in total; 20 Easy, 14 Medium and 16 Hard. 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 21 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 Heyawake is a challenging puzzle game that many may not have heard of. It offers stimulating 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 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]
