Free Printable Star Battle Puzzles

How star battle works

A star battle grid holds as many regions as rows, each outlined in thick lines. Place the stars so that every row, column and region has exactly one.

• No touching: stars never meet, not even at a corner, so each star clears the eight cells around it.
• Elimination: most of the solving is marking cells where no star can go; a star appears when a row, column or region has one cell left.

Star battle grid sizes: from 5x5 to 8x8

• 5x5: five regions and five stars, the size to learn the rules.
• 6x6: six regions with more room to bend.
• 7x7: seven regions, with longer chains of deductions.
• 8x8: eight regions of at least four cells, the largest grid.

Star battle difficulty levels

• Easy: each region, row or column read on its own, plus the cells that would leave a region no room.
• Medium: groups, such as two regions sharing the same two rows.
• Hard: at times, a star assumed in one cell and followed until a rule fails.

Star battle terms explained

• Region: an area of cells outlined in thick lines, which holds one star.
• Neighborhood: the eight cells around a star, which stay empty.
• Confinement: a region that fits in one row or column, which then gives its star to that row or column.
• Two Not Touch: the name of the two-star version of the puzzle, with two stars per row, column and region.

Printing the free star battle sheets

• Each size has two pages, one with a single grid per sheet and one with four grids per sheet.
• Easy sheets open each page and Hard sheets close it.
• Every sheet downloads in three formats, PDF, SVG and WebP, for A4 paper, and each page has a book PDF.
• Solutions are not printed; the Star Battle generator makes new grids with their solution and, at Easy, up to three starting stars.