There is an square. The top left field is black, the others are white. You can colour a white square to black, if it shares an edge with an odd number of black squares (diagonals don't count). Could it be that at some point the whole square will be black?
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Let's look at the black polygon's perimeter. In the beginning it's perimeter is 4 .
If we color a cell which has 1 adjacent black square, then the perimeter grows by 2 .
If we color a cell which has 3 adjacent black squares, then the perimeter decreases by 2 .
So suppose yes, it could be. Then we have to color 6 3 squares. Since by two coloring the perimeter grows by 4 , 0 or − 4 , after the 6 2 . coloring the perimeter will be divisible by 4 , so after 6 3 coloring, the perimeter won't be divisible by 4 . (It will make 2 remainder.) But the whole square's perimeter is 4 × 8 = 3 2 , which is not possible.
So the answer is: No, it can't happen.