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How to play Quilts.

Quilts is Pocketful's Shikaku. Split the whole grid into rectangles so that every number sits inside its own patch, and the number is the patch's size. Corners and crowded numbers give you the first moves.

About 4 minutes · No experience needed

The board.

A 5 by 5 grid with numbers in some squares. Every square will end up inside exactly one rectangle, and every rectangle contains exactly one number: its size in squares.

A 5 by 5 Quilts board in Pocketful with eight numbers placed in its squares — Starter level 1. Eight numbers, so eight patches.

The rule.

Cut the grid into rectangles. Each rectangle holds exactly one number, and covers exactly that many squares.

Drag from one corner of a patch to the opposite corner to draw it. Tap a patch to remove it. A 6 can be 2 by 3 or 3 by 2 or 1 by 6; whichever fits.

Trick one: a patch cannot hold two numbers.

List the shapes a number could take, then throw out every one that would swallow another number or run off the board. What survives is often a single shape.

The Quilts board with the corner 6 ringed and its two possible rectangles tinted

The Quilts board with the 6 drawn as a tall rectangle and the 3 beside it outlined as a tall strip

Trick two: fill what is left.

Once a few patches are in, the empty space between them is usually a rectangle already. Match it to the number inside it and draw it. The 2's at the top each get the only pair of squares that still reaches them.

The completed Quilts board with eight coloured rectangles filling the grid — The finished quilt. Eight patches, eight numbers, no gaps.

Common questions.

Can a patch be a single line?

Yes. A 4 can be 1 by 4 if that is what fits. A 1 is a single square.

What if I draw a patch that is the wrong size?

The app bounces it back. Only a rectangle whose size matches the number inside it will stick.