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One Lantern Is Wrong. Can You Find It?

A magnifying glass enlarges a white sunburst lantern on an orange tile among connected green, red, yellow, blue and purple tiles.

Six lanterns are lit. One is in the wrong square. Can you find it—and move it to the right one?

Here’s your garden. In Yodoku, every row, column and color needs exactly one lantern. Lanterns can’t touch, even diagonally.

A six-by-six garden with top-right and bottom-left cutouts. Region letters A through F appear on every tile. Lanterns are at row 1 column 1, row 2 column 3, row 3 column 6, row 4 column 2, row 5 column 4 and row 6 column 6. A text version of the board follows.
Move just one lantern. The numbers let you name its row and column; letters identify the colors.
Read the board as text

Region letters: A (pink), B (orange), C (yellow), D (green), E (blue), F (purple). An asterisk (*) marks a lantern; a dash (—) marks a cutout.

Challenge board: rows down, columns across
Row123456
1A*AAA——
2AAB*B——
3DDBBCC*
4DD*DCCC
5——DE*FF
6——FFFF*
Give me a hint

Look for a column with two lanterns and a column with none. Filling the gap must also keep lanterns from touching, even diagonally.

Show the answer

Move the yellow lantern at row 3, column 6 one square left, to column 5.

Column 6 has two lanterns; column 5 has none. Moving the purple lantern at row 6, column 6 left would touch the blue lantern at row 5, column 4 diagonally. The yellow lantern can move left without touching another light.

Move the yellow lantern in row 3 from column 6 one square left to column 5, following the arrow. The corrected garden has lanterns at row 1 column 1, row 2 column 3, row 3 column 5, row 4 column 2, row 5 column 4 and row 6 column 6.
Move the row 3 lantern from column 6 to column 5. Now there is one in every row, column and color, with no lanterns touching.

Your next garden starts empty

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