Sunday Stars Deep Dive | Advanced Block Analysis & 'Top Shelf, Bottom Shelf' Logic

You asked for the hard ones! Sunday Stars is the toughest puzzle of the week, and this one doesn't let up. Unlike some puzzles that unlock and cascade into easy moves, this one requires sustained logical work from start to finish. This solve demonstrates several advanced Sunday-level techniques: ✓ Border analysis: Recognizing the entire perimeter only has three regions, forcing corner stars to do double duty ✓ Block decomposition: Breaking eight-cell regions into "chunk of four, chunk of four" pairs ✓ Column counting: Using "four blocks need eight stars" to eliminate impossible cells early ✓ Top shelf/bottom shelf logic: The breakthrough insight—if you can't double up stars on the bottom shelf of stacked blocks, you need at least one star in each shelf level Key moment: Around minute 3, the "shelf stacking" realization unlocks the entire left side of the board by proving you can't stack both stars in the bottom portions of these tall regions. Fair warning—this is a Sunday puzzle, so I paused mid-solve to find the next move. That's normal! These puzzles are designed to make you work for every star placement. 🧩 Play today's puzzle at inkwellgames.com 💬 Stuck? Join Inkwell Insiders on Facebook—we love helping with tough weekend puzzles!