Nonogram
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- History
- Print publishing
- Electronic puzzles
- Today
- Example
- Solution techniques
- Simple boxes
- Simple spaces
- Forcing
- Glue
- Joining and splitting
- Punctuating
- Mercury
- Contradictions
- Mathematical approach
- Deeper recursion
- Multiple rows
- Nonograms in computing
- Software solvers
- Video games
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|A completed nonogram of the letter "W" from the Wikipedia logo
Nonograms, also known as Hanjie, Paint by Numbers, Griddlers, Pic-a-Pix, and Picross, are picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the edges of the grid to reveal a hidden picture. In this puzzle, the numbers are a form of discrete tomography that measures how many unbroken lines of filled-in squares there are in any given row or column. For example, a clue of "4 8 3" would mean there are sets of four, eight, and three filled squares, in that order, with at least one blank square between successive sets.
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