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in reply to @lexyeevee's post:
i am convinced that these games are either impossible or pure luck. i have not figured out the pattern yet
there is definitely a way to solve them, but i forget half of it so it usually doesn't work
it's pretty easy to solve actually! starting from the second row, click on the switches under a "on" switch. you keep going until the only ones left to turn off are in the bottom row. depending on the configuration, you click a specific switch in the top row and chase the lights again
my explanation was prolly shit but i like this puzzle a lot so there you go. surprise rambling
The solution is called Chasing The Lights, and it's way easier than you'd think, because the starting pattern is actually irrelevant to solving the puzzle!
The first goal is to have only the lights on the bottom row active. You do this from any starting configuration by toggling the light below any active light on the top row. Then the second, third, and fourth rows.
Once you've only got lights in the bottom row, there are only 7 total possible solutions, regardless of the configuration, and all they require you to do is click two lights in the top row (based on the bottom row), and then Chase The Lights again, and when you do, you chase them into and including the last row, and it's done.
The 7 solutions are here: https://www.logicgamesonline.com/lightsout/tutorial.html
It's a lot easier than it seems, there's really only 7 'final states' to the puzzle to memorize to flawlessly finish any 5x5 version of this. Simple tutorial and explanation here, if you'd like!: https://www.logicgamesonline.com/lightsout/tutorial.html
If your browser viewport is under 1024px then you get slightly wider posts and you can see an extra row of lights off the right side. I dunno if that's something worth fixing, but it's otherwise well done uvu
Technically no, since the game is called Lights Out, but getting them all on is fine as a stepping stone to getting them all off since IIRC there's a pattern you can memorise for going from all-on to all-off.
Though also since the puzzle is, iirc, fully reversible (to rewind you just do the same moves in reverse order and get back to where you started), with exactly two states... The game of Lights On is mathematically equivalent to Lights Out, so I'd say yeah they count.
