Thursday, May 21, 2009

209/365 - Nonogram

I just found this new application for my iPhone called PicGrid. It's actually called a nonogram puzzle. You use logic to color in the squares and the squares you color turn out to be a picture. It's also called Picross on the Nintendo DS. But anyway, these puzzles are totally addicting. I first learned about them when we were in Japan. I wanted to find a puzzle book to do on the train and came across this. At first I was discouraged because the instructions were in Japanese but after I figured it out, I was hooked. If you look at the puzzle on the right, it's a 5x5 grid and you have to color in based on the numbers going vertically or horizontally. If there are numbers together (i.e. row 2: 1 1 1) it means that there are spaces (they don't tell you how many) in between the number of filled squares (in this example three blocks filled, not next to each other). It's a little confusing at first, so click here for a wikipedia article that may help. Please also see this other picture of this puzzle solved (don't mind the difference in colors, the game changes colors when you open it at different times).

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