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How to Play

A Pair Place puzzle is represented as a grid with a "header row" at the top. To complete a Pair Place puzzle, you must fill in each square with a letter while obeying two rules:

  1. Each letter must appear once in each column.
  2. Letters must be placed into squares two at a time, with each square being filled with the header letter of the other square.

To place letters in the grid, press on the first square you want to fill, then drag to another open square in the same row. This will fill each square with the other square's header letter.

Tips

Although there are only two explicit rules of the puzzle, it's possible to derive additional rules of thumb that can be used as deduction shortcuts. A few such rules of thumb are:

  • A square must not be filled with a letter if:
    • The letter already appears in the row.
    • The letter already appears in the column.
  • A square must be filled with a letter if:
    • Only two blank squares remain in the row; each must be filled with the other's header letter.
    • The square is the only blank square in the column, and that letter is the only unused letter in the column.
    • That letter does not appear in that square's column yet, but that square is the only blank square in the column in a row where the letter hasn't been used yet.

This is not a full list of deduction shortcuts and you may discover additional shortcuts on your own, but these cover most of the basic cases that you'll encounter.