Free Daily Puzzle: Hitori 9×9 (0026)

Hitori is a logic puzzle played on a 9×9 grid of numbers.

• Shade some cells so that in every row and every column, each number appears at most once among the unshaded cells.

• Shaded cells may not touch each other orthogonally (no shared side).

• All unshaded cells must remain connected in one continuous area (orthogonal connections only).

Solved by logic alone; the puzzle has a unique solution.