UnlimitedNothing here counts towards your streak or the day’s board.
Give all twenty-five squares a height so that every row and column uses 1 to 5 once, and every number round the edge counts exactly what you can see from it.
Clock0:00
25 squares still empty.
Most of the edges are numbered today, so there is always a line that gives itself away. The small number under each height in the bar is how many of it are still to place.
Build a height
Stopping early still scores, on the squares you got right.
Skyline
Give all twenty-five squares a height so that every row and column uses 1 to 5 once, and every number round the edge counts exactly what you can see from it.
- Tap a square and give it a height from 1 to 5.Every row and every column uses each height once, so no two buildings in a street are the same.
- Read a number at the end of a line as how many rooftops you can see standing there.A taller building hides every shorter one behind it. Looking along 1 3 2 5 4 you see the 1, then the 3, then the 5, and that is three rooftops: the 2 hides behind the 3 and the 4 hides behind the 5. So that line is numbered 3.
- Build all twenty-five squares to finish.A 1 means the 5 is right in front of you. A 5 means the line climbs 1 2 3 4 5. There is only ever one answer, and the clock is your score.
Scored on time.
What the words mean
- Skyline:
- this game. Twenty-five buildings on a five by five grid, worked out from what you can see of them from the edges
- Height:
- how many storeys a building has, 1 to 5. Each row and each column uses every height exactly once
- Sightline:
- a number outside the grid. It is how many rooftops you can see looking along that row or column from where the number sits
- Hidden:
- a building you cannot see, because something taller stands in front of it. That is the whole rule: a 5 hides everything behind it, whatever it is
- Open:
- an easier day. Most of the edges are numbered, so there is always a line that gives itself away
- Tight:
- a middling day. A fair few edges are blank, so one or two lines have to wait until their neighbours are built
- Bare:
- a hard day. Only a handful of numbers, and most of the grid comes out of what cannot be true rather than what must be
- Par:
- a good time for today's grid, not a great one. Beating it puts you well up the table