🖼 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
1 3
2 3
3 3
4 3
5 3
9
2
1
1
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
10
8
6
10 columns × 10 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.
Watch for lone single clues. A clue of just 1 sitting between two solved lines (like this puzzle's mast) can often be pinned down early using the cells already fixed above and below it.
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.
The hull. Row 8 has a clue of 10, the full width, so fill it. Row 9 (8) gives you columns 3 through 8. Rows 6 and 10 (6) each give you columns 5 and 6.
The mast. Column 7 has a clue of 9 in a 10-square column. That leaves just 1 square of wiggle room, so rows 2 through 9 are always filled.
Row 7 (1). Row 7 only gets one filled square, and column 7 just filled it. Mark the rest of row 7 blank. That empty row is the gap between the sail and the hull.
The bow. Column 8 (2) has row 8 filled, and row 7 is now blank, so the run must be rows 8 and 9. Columns 9 and 10 (1) only get one square each, and row 8 has already taken it.
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Look at rows 1 to 6: their clues grow by one each row (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). The sail leans against the mast, so every one of those runs ends in the same column.
Why It's Rated Medium
Every square can be found one line at a time, but the shape is lopsided, so you can't lean on mirror symmetry like you can with the hearts and stars. The small sail clues only make sense once the mast is in place, which is what bumps it up to Medium.
Spoiler: what does this puzzle hide?
Sailboat steps things up with a leaning triangular sail, a single-cell mast, and a hull with a flat stern and a pointed bow — good practice for reading clues that describe an asymmetric shape.
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