🎨 Nonogram

How to play

The grid is five by five and hides a pattern of filled squares. The numbers along the top and down the left give the length of each run of filled squares in that column or row, in order, separated by at least one gap. A zero means the line is empty. Fill in every square of the hidden pattern and the puzzle reports itself solved.

• Left click — fill a square, or click a filled square again to clear it.
• Right click — mark a square with a cross to note that it stays empty. Right-clicking a marked square clears the mark.
• New Puzzle button — generates a fresh pattern and clues, discarding what you had.

Scoring

There are no points, no move counter and no timer. The only outcome is the solved message, which appears as soon as every square of the hidden pattern is filled and no extra square is. Crosses are your own bookkeeping and are never checked, so you can use as many or as few as you like. The check runs after every fill, so the message appears the instant the last correct square goes in.

Tips

• Start with the extremes. A clue of 5 fills the whole line, 0 empties it, and 4 always fills at least the middle three squares.
• Once a line is complete, cross off the rest of it. Those crosses are what narrow down the crossing lines.
• Work rows and columns alternately — every square you settle in a row informs the column it sits in.
• The row clues must add up to the same total as the column clues, which is a quick check on your reading.

Frequently asked questions