How to play Blooming Square

Blooming Square is a Shikaku puzzle wearing a hand-drawn coat. The board is a grid with a few numbered cells. Your job is to divide the whole board into rectangular flower beds, where every bed:

is a solid rectangle (no L-shapes),
contains exactly one number, and
has an area equal to that number — a 6 marks a bed of six cells.

Drag from one cell to another to draw a bed. If the rectangle is a valid bed it snaps in, sprouts appear, and the cells turn to pastel. Draw a bad rectangle and the tiles wobble and refuse it. Tap a single filled cell to pull that bed back up, or use Undo to remove the last one. When every cell belongs to a bed, the whole garden blooms.

Strategy

Start with the small numbers — a 2 or 3 has very few possible shapes, so it locks down quickly and constrains its neighbors. Numbers in a corner or along an edge are also easy openings, since the wall removes options.

Then work the big numbers: a large area usually has only one way to stretch without swallowing another number or running off the board. Whenever two beds would fight over the same cell, one of them is wrong — back up and re-shape the looser one.

No timer, no fail state

There is no clock and nothing to lose. Every puzzle is solvable by logic alone, and you can restart or step through the puzzles at your own pace. It is meant to be a quiet few minutes — draw, deduce, and let the garden fill in.