🖼 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.
1
2
6
7
8
8
7
6
2
1
2
2
4
10
8
6
6
6
2 2
10 columns × 9 rows
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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 10 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.
Row 4 (10). The clue matches the full width, so fill the whole row. Easiest move in the puzzle.
The rows below it. Row 5 (8) leaves 2 squares of wiggle room, so columns 3 through 8 are always filled. Rows 6, 7 and 8 (6) leave 4 squares of wiggle room, so columns 5 and 6 are always filled.
The outer edges. Columns 1 and 10 have a clue of just 1, and row 4 already filled it. Mark every other square in those columns blank. Columns 2 and 9 (2) must include row 4 too, so their runs stay within rows 3 to 5. Everything else in them is blank.
Columns 3 and 4. Column 3’s run of 6 has to include row 4, so it starts somewhere in rows 1 to 4. Either way, rows 4, 5 and 6 are always covered. Column 4’s 7 works the same way and gives you rows 3 through 7.
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The star is a mirror image left to right, so every column on the left matches one on the right. The bottom row (2 2) is where the two lower points end. Work up from the columns that are already narrowing.
Why It's Rated Easy
One full row hands you a strong start, and the mirror symmetry means you're really only solving half the grid. The two bottom points take a little more care, but they never need a guess.
Spoiler: what does this puzzle hide?
Lucky Star is a friendly five-pointed star puzzle, a good next step once you've solved a beginner grid — the two bottom points make for some satisfying deduction near the finish.