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My personal favorite kind of number and squares puzzle! I never got into Sudoku because I'm an idiot, but I love the rush of solving a puzzle. I find that they're great for more visual thinkers. The general gist is that you fill in squares and you slowly reveal a cute pixellated image. I play Picross on my Switch and 2DS, but they're also referred to as nonograms elsewhere.
Rules from puzzle-nonograms.com
You have a grid of squares, which must be either filled in black or marked with X. Beside each row of the grid are listed the lengths of the runs of black squares on that row. Above each column are listed the lengths of the runs of black squares in that column. Your aim is to find all black squares.
Apr 2, 2024
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Invented by Japanese graphics editor Non Ishida in 1987, Nonograms are addictively elegant visual logic puzzles and IMO the perfect bedtime wind-down activity. They’re kind of like a cross between Sudoku and a paint-by-number. I do them every night on my Nintendo Switch via a game called “Pic-a-Pix Deluxe,” but nonograms.org is also a good entry point. Start small and work your way up— you can even print them out or hand-copy them onto grid paper if you want to go really trad.
Mar 27, 2023
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recently I've because obsessed with the nyt games, especially the tiles and the sudokus!! I love sudokus so much now that I have three separate apps for them. Doing puzzles makes my brain go quiet
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