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Lights Out is an electronic game which does not involve turning off your led gu10 lights! The game has a five by five grid of lights. When the game commences, a random pattern of these lights is ignited. Pressing any of the lights leads the four adjacent lights to illuminate and the aim of the game is to turn off all the lights using as few button presses as is possible.

There have been many similar games released previous to Lights Out. In the 1970s, Parker Brothers produced Merlin which was almost identical to Lights Out except the playing board was just a three by three grid. In 1983, a very similar game was also produced by Vulcan Electronics. There was no sole inventor of the Lights Out game but rather a group of people came up with it. This group included Gyora Benedek, Revital Bloomberg, Michael Ganor, Zvi Herman, Avi Olti, and Avi Weiner. Other games were invented by the group such as NimX, iTop, and Hidato.