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Fillomino — rules and where to play

FILLOMINO · Fill-o-mino / Phiromino

Given digits state a region's size; you grow them into connected blocks of exactly that many cells. It turns the act of dividing itself into the puzzle.

Origin
1990 · Japan
Difficulty
★★★★★ 2–5 / 5
Time
5–40 min
Grid
5×5 – 20×20
Sites
10

Rules

  1. Each given digit belongs to a connected region of exactly that many cells.
  2. Regions may be any connected shape.
  3. Two regions of equal size may not touch edge to edge.
  4. Every cell ends up belonging to some region.

How to start

Start where equal digits touch

Two matching neighbours either merge or must be kept apart, which usually settles it.

Big digits are easy to fence in

A five-cell region has far fewer shapes than you would guess.

"Equal sizes may not touch" wins the endgame

When two same-sized regions nearly meet, something else must slot between them.

Where players get stuck

  • Merging regions that carry different digits.
  • Missing the no-equal-neighbours rule, which opens the grid to many solutions.

Play Fillomino

10 sites
Conceptis PuzzlesFreemium

Long-standing picture and logic publisher: Pic-a-Pix, Slitherlink, Hashi, Kakuro.

Open → Puzzle PicnicFree

Handmade Nikoli-style grids from a mix of setters, picked rather than dumped, playable in the page.

Open → PuzzleMixFreemium

Gareth Moore's site: Sudoku, then Slitherlink, Nurikabe, Futoshiki, Calcudoku and Hanjie.

Open → pzv.jpFree

A wider puzz.link-style database — more types, cut a bit finer.

Open → Penpa+Free

A fat editor for Japanese types: lots of shapes and marks, and it will ingest a puzz.link.

Open → pzplusFree

A community bank with difficulty and clear counts, browsable without leaving the page.

Open → Naoki InabaFree

Naoki Inaba writes a lot, including types you won't see many other places.

Open → Puzzle Square JPFree

A large Japanese variant archive that moves often, with difficulty marks on the grids.

Open → Grandmaster PuzzlesFree

Thomas Snyder's own handmade Sudoku and variants — world-champion difficulty, not generated filler.

Open → GridPuzzleFree

Dozens of grid logic types in the browser, with progress tracking and dailies.

Open →

Browse All-in-one portals →

Also on multi-type portals

Janko.atFree

Otto Janko's German/English archive: hundreds of playable types, all free.

Open → Puzzle RulesFree

Clean rule pages for dozens of types. Fastest way to learn a grid you haven't seen.

Open → NoqxFree

An ASP solver for 170-plus types. Connectivity puzzles tend to come back quickly.

Open → Nikoli Puzzle SolverFree

Z3 under the hood, 100-plus types, including hex and triangle boards.

Open →

Browse portals →

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About this page
  • Last updated 2026-09-22
  • Source Curated compilation of established puzzle rules and listed third-party play sites
  • Audience Players learning Fillomino rules or looking for online sites to play
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