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Rectangular vs Nurikabe - What's the difference?

rectangular | nurikabe |

As an adjective rectangular

is having a shape like a rectangle.

As a noun nurikabe is

(games|puzzles) a japanese logic puzzle with a rectangular grid of squares, some of them numbered; the solver is challenged to fill in a subset of squares (under certain constraints) such that each numbered square finally indicates the number of unfilled squares contiguous to it.

rectangular

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Having a shape like a rectangle.
  • Having axes that meet each other with right angles.

    • nurikabe

    English

    (wikipedia nurikabe)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (games, puzzles) A Japanese logic puzzle with a rectangular grid of squares, some of them numbered; the solver is challenged to fill in a subset of squares (under certain constraints) such that each numbered square finally indicates the number of unfilled squares contiguous to it.