Skyscrapers
The numbers are building heights; each clue says how many are visible from that side.
⏱10–20 min🧠Easy🔢Numbers & Patterns🖨Printing Recommended
How to play
- Fill the grid with 1 to 4 so each row and column has no repeats.
- Treat each number as the height of a skyscraper.
- Each edge number tells how many skyscrapers are visible looking along that line — a taller one hides every shorter one behind it.
Tips for solving it
None of these give anything away — they are just how people who do these all the time get unstuck.
- A clue of 1 means the tallest building is right there, against the edge. Write it in immediately.
- A clue equal to the grid size means the row climbs steadily: 1, 2, 3, 4.
- A tall building hides everything shorter behind it - that is the whole mechanic.
- A clue of 2 means the tallest is second or later; the first building must be low enough to be overtopped.
- Work the extreme clues first; the middling ones only become useful once the row is half full.
An example puzzle
Have a go at this one first — it is smaller than the real thing. The answer key is hidden until you ask for it.
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 2 | 3 | ||||
| 2 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | 1 | ||||
| 1 | 2 | ||||
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Show the answer key
Answer Key
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
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