Picross and Nonograms!

[Suguri]

Let's talk about nonograms, also known as picross, griddlers, pic-a-pix, etcetera! See the Wikipedia article for more information on them!

Ever since I solved a big puzzle for TBT Fair 2024, I became addicted. I recently installed Picross S+ on my Switch and have been enjoying it so far! I think I'm gonna look for activity books with those types of puzzles so I can work on them more. Who knew exercising your brain would be this fun?

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I've loved nonogram puzzles for a long time!! I got into it from playing Mario no Super Picross on SNES Online (who would've guessed it had something to do with Super Mario hehehe). I played that game for 30+ hours on SNES Online and then actually bought it complete in box so I could play it on my SNES at home!
(I even made a youtube video of me playing it, though it's from a year ago and I swear quite a bit gsjfhsjddg)

I also play Mario's Picross on Gameboy, the Zelda Twilight Princess picross game on 3DS, and there's even a website called www.nonograms.org where there are an endless number of community made puzzles that you can do! reading this makes me want to get out my SNES and play Mario no Super Picross again though hehehee

 

[Sharksheep]

I love them a lot. There's a lot of free apps for them! One of the ones I played a while back didn't have many ads and told a story as you completed a certain number of puzzles.

 

[mocha.]

Like you, I got into them from the event never played them before in my life but I downloaded the app to my phone and have been playing quite a bit!

 

[Cirice]

I installed a nonogram app on my phone too, I've been playing a lot now that I understand how they work, it's so satisfying to complete lol

 

[Kaiaa]

While I have since learned making nonograms is not my strong suit, I do love playing them hahaha
I recently bought a game for my steam deck called "Logiart Grimoire" which has been pretty fun so far. I really love it because once you solve a few puzzles you "combine" them to create new puzzles and I just think that's really unique and makes me want to solve as many as possible.

 

[Giddy]

I never knew about it until this event, so I did do some research, and watched a really helpful person on youtube make a few videos explaining it.

 

[skarmoury]

nonogram puzzles are my bedtime game!! pokemon picross is what got me into it years ago, then i got a nonogram mobile app and the sanrio picross game on 3DS c: it tickles my brain in the right way and sometimes it tires me out lots that i end up falling asleep, thats why it's my bedtime game

 

[OswinOswald]

I really enjoy these too! But i am always hesitant to guess. I like that you can use logic to try and figure out the puzzle, and it's so satisfying to watch the image appear before you eyes as you build it!
I first learned about it while my friends in college were doing fun puzzle oriented photo scavenger hunts and one of my friends incorporated this sort of puzzle into the scavenger hunt they designed!

 

[Suguri]

Man, it's been a while since I played Picross S+ on my Switch. It was fun, I should get back to it sometime. Too bad I'm busy... T^T

 

[Rosch]

I LOVE nonograms. I only got into it because of Picross on the Nintendo DS. I really wish Nintendo would release another Picross 3D. That's the kind of Picross puzzles I really enjoy the most.

 

[Aerith]

I enjoy them, and I used to do them as a way to distract my mind from anxious thoughts. I kinda fell out of the habit of doing so though.

 

[pancake2]

I love nonograms and do them all the time! I was actually so excited to see one in the fair puzzle thread (even if I was going through and just doing puzzles for fun after that event had ended) and then… very sad when it was not actually logically solvable
I learned about them from an ad for some random app years ago, but actually don’t even use an app, I just do them on nonograms.org, which is a site where users upload their own pixel art to be turned into nonograms. The site checks that they can be solved logically, and users can rate the difficulty and quality of images so you can see that before starting one. They’re a little tricky to start but so fun once you get the hang of them, and I especially like doing them on this site because you get to see lots of people’s art while you do the puzzles!