Fill All the Things

A tricky deductive puzzle with a sprinkle of rule discovery

Use your mouse to place diamonds

This puzzle was created for The 2022 Confounding Calendar

Based on/inspired by a puzzle in the game Taiji (https://mvandevander.itch.io/taiji)

For those of you who don't want to bother with rule discovery and lack prior knowledge from Taiji, you can use rot13.no (or any other rot13 decoder) on the lines of text below for some hints.

Placement Hints:

1. Lbh pna abg cynpr zber guna rvtug qvnzbaqf
2. Lbh zhfg cynpr nyy rvtug qvnzbaqf

Meter Hints:

1. Gur zrgre ng gur obggbz bs gur fperra svyyf hc sbe rnpu qvnzbaq lbh cynpr
2. Gur zrgref orybj rnpu tevq ercerfrag gur ahzore bs svyyrq qvnzbaqf va gung tevq
3. Gur ynetr zrgre svyyf hc sbe rnpu bgure zrgre gung vf svyyrq

Rule Hints:

1. Na bhgyvarq qvnzbaq vf hafngvfsvrq naq n svyyrq qvnzbaq vf fngvfsvrq
2. Qvnzbaqf ner fngvfsvrq jura cnverq jvgu rknpgyl bar bgure qvnzbaq