🖼 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
10
11
4 5
4 6
11
6 4
11
4 6
4 5
11
10
1
2 2
2 2
11
11
11
11
2 3 2
11
5 5
11
9
9
5
13 columns × 13 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 11 in this puzzle, tells you almost 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.
The big rows. Rows 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 all have a clue of 11 in a 13-square row. That's only 2 squares of wiggle room, so columns 3 through 11 are filled in all six rows. Row 9 (5 5) also has just 2 squares of wiggle room, giving you columns 3–5 and 9–11.
Rows 11 and 12 (9). 4 squares of wiggle room, so columns 5 through 9 are always filled.
The tall columns. Columns 3, 6, 8 and 11 have a clue of 11, so rows 3 through 11 are filled. Columns 2 and 12 (10) give you rows 4 through 10.
Row 7 (2 3 2). Columns 2 and 3 are already filled here, so that's the first 2, and column 4 must be blank. Columns 11 and 12 are the last 2, so column 10 is blank. Columns 6 and 8 are filled too, so the 3 has to be columns 6, 7 and 8.
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Columns 1 and 13 each have just one filled square, and it isn't down in the face. Look up at the top two rows (2 2).
Why It's Rated Hard
When it was built, this was our biggest and trickiest grid, which is where the Hard label comes from. It can still be solved one line at a time with no guessing. The split rows across the middle (like 2 3 2 and 5 5) are what make you slow down and check your crossings.
Spoiler: what does this puzzle hide?
Curious Cat is our largest and trickiest nonogram yet — a 13×13 grid with pointed ears, two eyes, and a nose worked in as small gaps within otherwise long runs. Take your time with the multi-number clues; they reward careful cross-referencing between rows and columns.