How to Play Shaadi Seating
Seat the wedding guests without a fight. The ultimate desi puzzle.
Shaadi Seating is a logic puzzle about the most political job at any Indian wedding: the seating plan. Guests queue up and you place them on chairs around one to four round tables. Each guest has demands. A couple must sit side by side, feuding relatives must not, Dadaji wants an end seat, a friend wants to face the stage, and a veg table cannot host a non-veg eater. Seat everyone, press Baraat, and the sweep checks each table.
Every level is generated backwards from a valid arrangement, so a solution always exists. Levels scale from 3 guests on one table to 18 across four, with constraint density rising through the Mehndi, Sangeet and Reception packs. It is a calm tap-to-place puzzle with a par time, three fixes when things go wrong, and a three-star rating for clean, hint-free seating.
Controls
- Tap a guest in the queue, then tap a chair. Tap a seated guest to lift and move or swap; drag also works.
- Press Baraat (or Enter, or B on desktop) once the queue is empty to run the check.
- Escape cancels a lifted guest; M mutes sound.
- Hint shows one correct move after a short ad; the Fix chip counts remaining reseats.
How to play, step by step
- Pick a level from a pack; each unlocks after the previous one.
- Read every guest's demand tag before placing anyone.
- Seat the strictest demands first: end seats and stage-facing chairs are limited, then place couples on adjacent pairs.
- Fill the rest, keeping feuding pairs non-adjacent or on different tables as their tag says.
- Press Baraat. Any squabbles put you in fix mode, where each reseat costs one of three fixes, then press Baraat again.
- No fixes left means a Food Fight: watch an ad for two more, or let them fight and finish with one star.
Rules and scoring
- Constraint types: couple (adjacent), apart (not adjacent), apart-table (different tables), end (end chair), stage (stage-facing middle chair), diet (veg and non-veg cannot share a table).
- Guests are 2 plus 0.8 per level rounded up, capped at 18. Tables: 1 up to 5 guests, 2 up to 9, 3 up to 13, 4 beyond.
- Par is 15 seconds plus 4 per guest plus 2 per constraint. Stars: 1 after a food fight, 2 for a clean finish, 3 for clean, under par, zero hints.
- Coins: a new best rating pays 20 plus 15 per extra star; a repeat pays 5.
Tips to score higher
- Count end chairs and stage-facers first. Each table has two end chairs and one or two stage-facers, and those guests decide the layout.
- Place couples on pairs that do not consume an end chair you need for an elder.
- Apart-table feuds are easy: different tables immediately, then forget them.
- Diet is table-wide. Group all veg guests onto one table early.
- In fix mode, lift only the flagged guest; every move spends a fix.
- Hints cost your third star, so use them only on Reception levels when a food fight is certain.
Modes and challenges
- Mehndi pack, levels 1 to 20: small tables with couple, apart and end-seat rules.
- Sangeet pack, levels 21 to 50: adds diet tables and apart-table feuds.
- Reception pack, level 51 up: adds stage-facing demands with up to 18 guests, plus a Challenge Friends share link.
Frequently asked questions
Is every level solvable?
Yes. The generator seats all guests validly first and derives the constraints from that arrangement.
What happens when fixes run out?
A Food Fight starts. Watch an ad for two extra fixes, or let them fight and finish the level with one star.
Which chairs are end seats and stage-facing?
Each table has a gap facing the stage. The chairs beside that gap are end seats; the chair or pair directly opposite faces the stage.
How do I get three stars?
Finish with a clean Baraat sweep, use zero hints, and beat the par time shown on the results card.