The order you find the ghosts in can change your score several times over. Every rule is written out here.

🧮The formula

Each tap scores 100 + opened cells × conditions completed × 50.

📐What counts as a condition

A condition is a row, a column, or a number inside a cell. It is completed once every ghost in its range has been found.

📗Opened cells — the exact definition

The non-ghost cells belonging to each completed condition that are not yet fixed crosses (your own × memos still count). • Cells shared by several conditions count once • Cells crossed from the start (zero conditions) never count • Cells already crossed by previously completed conditions never count

🚫What does not affect score

Memos and hints never change the score (place as many memos as you like). A miss, however, fixes that cell as a cross, so it no longer counts as an opened cell. Hints only affect crowns and your Logic Rating.

💎Diamond and skull

The number of cells that will open in a round is the same no matter what order you find the ghosts in. The same cells score more when a single tap opens many of them and completes several conditions at once. 💎 A no-miss clear that reaches the proven maximum score 💀 A no-miss clear held down to the proven minimum score

🔀Order is everything

With the same board and the same ghosts, the ORDER of discovery changes the score. The optimal value is the maximum over all orders; 💀 is the no-miss minimum.

🔦💎 light and 💎 Hints

In a 🧠-cleared round, the first hint turns on the 💎 light. While it shines, your order so far can still reach the optimal score; the move that turns it off is the move that lost it. The second hint opens the ghosts that are safe at any time — catching them early or late never changes the final score — so what remains is exactly the part where order decides everything.

💎Getting close to the optimal

Completing conditions one at a time early closes them and uses up the blank cells that a later, bigger finish would have opened — so the big finishes shrink. In rounds you have solved with 🧠, each ghost shows what it would score right now — but taking the biggest score first is the long way round. Spend the 100-point moves (the ones that complete nothing) first, keep conditions open, and finish them together at the end.

🏁Example: the optimal order (5×5)

1. ① Row 3, Col 3 — 2 conditions, 1 cell → 100 + 1×2×50 = 200 (total 200)
2. ② Row 3, Col 2 — 5 conditions, 4 cells → 100 + 4×5×50 = 1,100 (total 1,300)
3. ③ Row 5, Col 1 — 2 conditions, 0 cells → 100 (total 1,400)
4. ④ Row 1, Col 4 — 3 conditions, 0 cells → 100 (total 1,500)

Total 1,500 — the proven optimal for this board. The key is waiting until tap ② to complete five numbers at once. Same ghosts, wrong order — far fewer points (this board bottoms out at 900).

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