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There are boards that cannot be solved in Lights Out.

Then the user can press Solve, and get their answer on how to beat the current Lights Out board. The user can now enter their Lights Out board using the checkboxes. With everything loaded, the Load button is swapped out with a New and Solve button. The generation process will only happen once, unless the user deletes ore moves the. If the user has never generated solutions before, the dataset will be generated and stored in a. On starting the application, the user has to load the game solutions.

Using the created solutions data set, the player can easily generate the fastest solution to solving any solvable board. This application is designed to generate all the solvable states of the game, and using a breadth first search from the solved state, get the shortest path to solution for every state. Using this method, the player had to think strategically about where to press to get them closer to having all of the lights out.

By pressing a button, the light underneath and on all 4 sides of that button were toggled, either on or off. Sporting a 5x5 grid of lights, the object of the game was to turn out all of the lights. In 1995, Tiger Electronics put out the handheld game, Lights Out.

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