🖼 A hidden picture is waiting inside the grid. Use the numbers above each column and beside each row to work out which squares to fill in — the answer key sits at the bottom, fold it backward along the dotted line before you start.
A logic-grid picture puzzle (also called picross or griddlers). Use the number clues to fill in the correct squares and reveal the hidden image.
Each number tells you how many squares in a row to fill in that line, in order. A clue of 2 2 means: fill 2 squares, leave at least one blank, then fill 2 more.
3
5
6
6
6
6
5
3
2 2
8
8
8
6
4
2
8 columns × 7 rows
✂ fold backward along this line to hide the solution ✂
Solution hidden on screen — it prints automatically.
Solution
How to Solve This Nonogram
Nonograms (also called picross, griddlers, or hanjie) are logic puzzles that hide a picture inside a grid of numbers:
Start with the biggest clues. A row or column clue close to the full width, like the 8 in this puzzle, tells you the whole line is filled — mark those first.
Cross off what's finished. Once a row or column's clue is fully satisfied, mark every remaining cell in that line as empty so you don't second-guess it later.
Work the overlap. When a clue number is more than half the line's length, the middle cells must always be filled no matter how the run shifts — mark those immediately.
Not sure where to begin? Here's exactly how Mr. Puzzle opens this grid. Rows are numbered top to bottom and columns left to right.
Three free rows. Rows 2, 3 and 4 each have a clue of 8, and the grid is only 8 squares wide. Fill all three rows completely. That's 24 squares in one go.
Row 5 (6). A run of 6 in 8 squares only has 2 squares of wiggle room, so columns 3 through 6 are always filled.
The outside columns. Columns 1 and 8 have a clue of 3, and rows 2–4 already give them three filled squares. That's the whole run, so mark rows 1, 5, 6 and 7 blank in both columns.
Columns 2 and 7 (5). The run of 5 has to include rows 2–4. It can stretch up to row 1 or down to row 6, but never both, so row 5 is always filled and row 7 is always blank.
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The grid is a mirror image left to right. Whatever you work out for column 2, the same goes for column 7. When you get to the bottom row (2), check which columns still have room to reach that far down.
Why It's Rated Easy
It's our smallest grid, just 8 by 7, and three of its seven rows are completely full. Every other square follows from one line at a time. It's the perfect first nonogram if you've never tried one.
Spoiler: what does this puzzle hide?
Hidden Heart is our first printable nonogram — a small, friendly grid to introduce the mechanic before we add bigger and trickier pictures to the collection. It prints on one page with the fold-over answer key so you can check yourself honestly.