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Puzzle by Nikoli S Akari

This famous and easily understandable puzzle was created in 2001. "Akari" is a puzzle in which you set lights based on the hint numbers in order to light up the entirety of the white space. The main features…

20 October 2022

Puzzle by Nikoli S Akari is a card & board game, released 20 October 2022 on Nintendo Switch.

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What Puzzle by Nikoli S Akari is

Puzzle by Nikoli S Akari was released in 2022. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

This famous and easily understandable puzzle was created in 2001. "Akari" is a puzzle in which you set lights based on the hint numbers in order to light up the entirety of the white space. The main features of "Akari" are the easy to understand rules, and the depth of the game. There are great numbers of patterns for which you will figure out "When the numbers and lights and spaces are combined like this, then THIS is how they are sure to match up", so you have plenty of opportunities to taste "the excitement of discovering new patterns".
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How it plays

Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Puzzle by Nikoli S Akari launched on 20 October 2022, within three weeks of God of War Ragnarök, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn and Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. It arrived 5 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: God of War Ragnarök, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.

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When did Puzzle by Nikoli S Akari come out?
Puzzle by Nikoli S Akari was released on 20 October 2022 for Nintendo Switch.

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