Game Guide
Stuck on MyRin's harder levels? These advanced strategies - from the team that designed the puzzles
There is a specific moment in MyRin where a player's approach stops working. Early levels reward intuition - you look at the puzzle, see the pattern, place the answer. Around Level 60 to 80, intuition becomes unreliable. The puzzles start requiring a different kind of thinking: systematic, methodical, willing to work backwards from constraints rather than forwards from first impressions.
This guide covers the strategies that work on MyRin's harder levels - written by the team that designed them.
Every MyRin puzzle is defined by a set of logical constraints. Before examining the grid, read every constraint completely. Understand what each one is saying before you try to apply any of them.
This sounds obvious but most players do the opposite: they look at the grid, make initial placements based on intuition, and then check constraints to see if their placements work. This approach is backwards on hard levels. The grid is just visual information; the constraints are the actual puzzle. Starting from the constraints prevents you from anchoring to a wrong initial impression that the constraint-checking later fails to dislodge.
In every MyRin puzzle, some elements have more constraints on them than others. The most constrained element - the one with the fewest possible valid placements - is the right place to start.
If you are working on a puzzle where element A has only two valid positions and element B has five, start with A. Resolve A's placement first, then observe how that resolution constrains the remaining elements. Constraint propagation - the cascading restriction of possibilities as you resolve elements - is how hard MyRin levels become solvable. Find the tightest constraint and pull that thread first.
On hard levels, it is often impossible to determine where something goes. It is often possible to determine where something cannot go. These are logically equivalent - if there are only three possible positions and you can eliminate two of them, you have found the answer - but the elimination approach is frequently easier to execute on complex configurations.
Work through each possible position for an element and ask: does placing it here violate any constraint? If yes, eliminate that position. If you eliminate all but one position, the answer is determined. If you cannot eliminate all but one, you have at least reduced the possibility space for the next constraint propagation pass.
For puzzles that have a sequential or ordered structure, try working backwards from what the final state must look like rather than forwards from the initial state.
In a MyRin sequence puzzle, the last element's position is often highly constrained by what everything else must satisfy. Determine the possible end states first, then work backwards: given this end state, what must the second-to-last element be? Given that, what must the third-to-last be? Backwards reasoning often resolves in fewer steps than forward reasoning on puzzles with tight final constraints.
This is the strategy most players resist and most cognitive scientists would recommend first. When you have been stuck on the same puzzle for more than five minutes and are not making any progress, stop looking at it.
The phenomenon is called fixation: your current mental representation of the problem is preventing you from seeing the correct one. You keep approaching the puzzle the same way and reaching the same dead end because the framing in your mind is wrong - but you cannot see that the framing is wrong from inside it.
A 5 to 10 minute break - doing something completely unrelated - allows the mental representation to relax. When you return to the puzzle, you will often see the configuration differently and identify an approach you were unable to see during the stuck period. This is not magic; it is the well-documented "incubation effect" in creative problem solving research, and it works on logic puzzles as reliably as on creative tasks.
On hard levels, players often reach what they believe is a solution and finalize it quickly. Take thirty seconds to verify before submitting: does every element satisfy every constraint simultaneously? Check each constraint against your proposed solution explicitly, not from memory.
This catches a consistent class of errors: solutions where the first few constraints are satisfied and the last one is violated - a violation that was missed because the player's attention was on placing the last element, not rechecking the first constraints against the final configuration.
Every hard MyRin puzzle is logically solvable without guessing. This is a design constraint we hold to across all 1000+ levels - no puzzle requires a lucky guess or trial-and-error. If you feel like you are guessing, the puzzle has more structure you have not found yet.
Slow down. Read the constraints again. Find the most constrained element. Use elimination. Work backwards if working forwards has stalled. Take a break if you are truly stuck. The solution is in the puzzle; these strategies are how you find it.