Do you like Sudoku and other logic puzzles? You will love Nonograms.

[Locut0s]

Sorry for cluttering up the Lounge with my posts today, I'm a bit hyper after not getting any sleep last night

Anyway I discovered nonograms a few years ago after picking up a Nintendo DS game called picross, you may know these puzzles under that name too. Basically they are Sudoku like puzzle games only the challenge is to recreate an image from the numbers around the edges of the board. The image is usually some type of pixel art. The numbers around the boarder tell you how many contiguous strings of pixels there are in each line. It's a puzzle with a surprising amount of depth and strategy once you get to some of the harder puzzles and I like it a lot more than Sudoku because every game is a unique picture, while Sudoku feels far too repetitive to me. Here are some sites to get you started if you don't know about them:

http://www.puzzle-nonograms.com/?size=3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram

http://puzzlemadness.co.uk/playnonograms.php

Just search google or the iOS or Android store for nonogram.

[hollysmom]

1. IN a similar bent on facebook color cross online

https://apps.facebook.com/colorcross/?fb_source=bookmark_apps&ref=bookmarks&count=0&fb_bmpos=9_0

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. I miss Crosspatches.. they quit making them years ago

and before you ask, NO Fill-it-ins are not the same.

[Locut0s]

3. This?

Never heard of crosspatch puzzles. Even Google took a while to find anything. Do you mean this?

http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/02/22/crosspatch-puzzle-1959/

What are fill it ins?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. nope

this is a crosspatch puzzle
http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/blueroom/fillin03.htm
(mis-named, of course)

this is a Fill it in
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/70950185/Fill-In-Crossword-Puzzle-_1

[surrealAmerican]

4. Those are one of those puzzles ...

... that you found in print, in those Dell magazines. I'll have to try that again when I'm at my computer. The interface doesn't work well on the iPad.


I'm not sure if I should thank you or not. This has the potential to waste a lot of time.

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

6. I worked my way up to the 15x15 ones...

Wait, where'd the time go?!

[petronius]

7. Very interesting, thank you!

On the nonograms, am I correct in assuming that the runs are listed in order? So if a margin lists "4, 2, 3" the runs will occur in that order as I move away from the margin?

(Also, will you please write a note to my employer explaining why I won't bet getting anything done today? TIA.)

[Duer 157099]

8. Thanks. Never heard of it.

Took me 10 minutes to figure out the first one, a 5x5