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Nonogram
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Also known as Hanjie, Picross, Griddlers

thumb|A completed nonogram of the letter "W" from the Wikipedia logo

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Encyclopedic overview

23 sections
Contents
  • 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nonogram” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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