--- title: "Sea & Sand: Island Puzzle · NYTE Games" description: "Sea & Sand is a pirate's island logic puzzle. Every X marks an island of that many squares. Chart the sea around them with no guessing required." canonical_url: "https://nytegames.com/games/sea-sand" meta: "og:description": "Sea & Sand is a pirate's island logic puzzle. Every X marks an island of that many squares. Chart the sea around them with no guessing required." "og:image": "https://nytegames.com/og-default.png" "og:image:alt": "NYTE Games logo: a yellow N with a moon and star on a navy sky" "og:image:height": "630" "og:image:width": "1200" "og:title": "Sea & Sand: Island Puzzle · NYTE Games" "twitter:description": "Sea & Sand is a pirate's island logic puzzle. Every X marks an island of that many squares. Chart the sea around them with no guessing required." "twitter:image": "https://nytegames.com/og-default.png" "twitter:image:alt": "NYTE Games logo: a yellow N with a moon and star on a navy sky" "twitter:title": "Sea & Sand: Island Puzzle · NYTE Games" --- > Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://nytegames.com/llms.txt) **Logic grids** # Sea & Sand X marks the island ## **About Sea & Sand** A pirate's logic puzzle. Every X marks an island of exactly that many squares. Chart the sea around them so islands never touch and all the water connects, with no guessing required. Every X on the chart marks an island of exactly that many squares. Islands never touch, all the sea is one connected body of water, and open water never pools in a 2×2 block. Every chart can be reasoned out square by square. ## **How to play Sea & Sand** 1. Tap a square once for sea, twice for sand, and again to clear it. 2. A square touching two different Xs can only be sea. 3. When an island has all its squares, it is ringed with sea for you. 4. Fog shows the squares no island can reach: they are sea. ## **What's inside ** - Charts from 5×5 to 8×8, with trickier rules as you go - A new Daily Chart every day, with a streak and a shareable result - Three doubloons per chart: a wrong mark costs one - Every X shows how many squares it still needs - A no-hint streak and a best time for every size - Hints that explain the rule behind the move - Light and dark mode, plays offline, no account needed ## **Sea & Sand screenshots ** - - - - - - ## **Sea & Sand questions ** ## **More games like Sea & Sand** ![Even Paws banner](https://nytegames.com/images/games/even-paws/banner-light.webp) **Even Paws** **Balance cats and dogs in rows** A cozy logic puzzle. Seat cats and dogs so every row and column holds the same number of each, with never three alike in a row. A heart means two neighbors match; a cross means they differ. LogicBinary puzzle Coming soon [Even Paws: Balance cats and dogs in rows](https://nytegames.com/games/even-paws) ![Lightning Bugs banner](https://nytegames.com/images/games/lightning-bugs/banner-dark.webp) **Lightning Bugs** **Light every path at night** A calm logic puzzle set after dark. Place lightning bugs so every garden path glows, no two bugs can see each other, and every numbered stone has exactly that many bugs beside it. LogicLighting puzzle Coming soon [Lightning Bugs: Light every path at night](https://nytegames.com/games/lightning-bugs) ![Beeduction banner](https://nytegames.com/images/games/beeduction/banner-light.webp) **Beeduction** **Find every bee, never guess** A cozy logic puzzle on a honeycomb. Some flowers hide bees. Open a flower and it counts the bees touching it; use the numbers to work out which flowers are safe. Every garden can be solved by logic alone. LogicHex minesweeper Coming soon [Beeduction: Find every bee, never guess](https://nytegames.com/games/beeduction) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@id":"https://nytegames.com/#website","@type":"WebSite","description":"NYTE Games makes calm, cozy brain games and puzzle games with one answer and no guessing. Short sessions, daily puzzles, free to play.","name":"NYTE Games","url":"https://nytegames.com/","publisher":{"@id":"https://nytegames.com/#identity"}},{"@id":"https://nytegames.com/games/sea-sand#webpage","@type":"WebPage","description":"Sea & Sand is a pirate's island logic puzzle. Every X marks an island of that many squares. 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