Seat the Guests

Two rules at every table

Every seat is checked two ways. Numbers cannot repeat within a table, so once a 4 is sitting there, no other 4 can join it. Colours work on neighbours instead: a guest cannot sit directly beside someone of the same colour. So each empty chair has to pass one test against the whole table and another against the two seats on either side of it.

The game’s own hint follows from this. Before you place anyone, check the guest’s number against the table and look at the colours on both sides of the chair, and only then commit.

Plan the table, not the chair

Clicking an empty chair seats whoever is waiting, and a seated guest can be picked up and moved to another empty chair later. On a phone, tapping the selected guest again cancels a move you have started. That flexibility has a limit, though, because the level keeps count of the moves you have left.

The better habit is to think a whole table through before filling it. Note which numbers are already there, then which colours each empty chair sits between, and place guests where both checks pass. A table planned in full is less likely to need rearranging later, and with a move count running, that matters.

Couples, rivals and broken chairs

Later levels add three more conditions. Couples have to be seated together, rivals must be kept at different tables, and some chairs are broken and cannot be used at all. The first two pull in opposite directions, one keeping guests close and the other keeping them apart, while a broken chair simply shrinks the space you have to work with. Each one takes options away, so the planning habit from the early levels matters more as the levels go on.