Star Battle

brennerd

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

Star Battle (also known as "Two Not Touch") is a challenging logic puzzle. Place two stars in every row, in every column, and in every region, but make sure that the stars do not touch! Each puzzle has only one solution, which can be reached through logical reasoning, no guessing needed!

Solving these logic puzzles can be pretty difficult, but while playing, you can always check if your solution is correct so far, and if you are stuck, you can always ask for a hint.

Solve these logic puzzles to challenge yourself, relax, train your brain, or kill some time. This puzzle provides hours of challenging entertainment! With puzzles ranging from easy to fiendish, it offers something for both beginners and experts.

Are you up for the challenge? Can you solve them all?

Features:
- Check if your solution so far is correct
- Ask for a hint (unlimited, with explanation)
- Works offline
- Dark mode and multiple color themes
- And much more..

About the puzzle
Star Battle can be classified as an object placement puzzle, like Battleship or Trees and Tents, and as binary determination puzzle, like Hitori or Nurikabe. Users often refer to it as a interesting cross between Sudoku and Minesweeper.

Star Battle is relatively new, created by Hans Eendebak for the 2003 World Puzzle Championship. The puzzle is also known as "Two Not Touch," under which name it is published in The New York Times. All puzzles in the app are created by brennerd.

Ratings and reviews

Delightful visual design with plenty of color schemes to choose from, and it's so engrossing I spend way more time doing "just one more," but each one is low stakes enough that I exit without emotional friction if I need to attend to something. The hint system is very well done and helps you learn new principles. It's a bargain at $2 (for no ads). My only issue with it is that the tap interface is a bit messy, easy to accidentally put a dot or star where you didn't mean to, and have to backtrack

So much fun. Very simple concept with varying levels of difficulty. I LOVE the ability to ask whether you've got it correct so far. I love that there's no lives/energy system. Super relaxing and hard to put down. The ads are short and only between levels. Based on this, within one day of playing I bought the ad-free version and all 4 puzzle expansions, all very fairly priced. It seems like the devs actually cared about making a fun game, not just an ad machine. Great job and thank you! 👏🏻

Outstanding game! I've played this enough to develop the Tetris effect with it :) My only suggestion is that the developer add a bookmarking option: at some points of difficult levels, I need to test different solutions. If my first test fails, I often just restart completely. It would be great to be able to undo every move after my bookmarked point.