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The Game of Lights

Turn on all the lights. Flipping a switch flips that light and its neighbors — above, below, beside, never diagonal. Go from all-off to all-green. In the harder modes each flip cycles through more colors; in Impossible mode, well — see for yourself.

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Where this game leads: a 5-minute solution summary, our favorite patterns — solution matrices rendered as art — and the in-depth explainer, where the whole thing turns out to be linear algebra.

Bugs, observations, conjectures, and theorems to [email protected].