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.
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6 11
18 1
6 3
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2 2 2 2 2 2
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20 columns × 20 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 tells you the whole line is filled — mark those first.
Watch for lone single clues. A clue of just 1 boxed in by solved lines can often be pinned down early using the cells already fixed around 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.
Clear the edges, then the canopy. Columns 1 and 20 have no clue, so mark them blank. That leaves 18 squares per row. Row 6 (18) now fills columns 2 through 19 exactly. Row 5 (16) gives you columns 4–17, row 4 (14) columns 6–15, and row 3 (12) columns 8–13.
Row 7 (2 2 2 2 2 2). Six 2s plus five gaps take up 17 of the 18 squares, so each run has only 1 square of wiggle room. That means columns 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18 are always filled. The scalloped edge starts to show.
Column 11 (18 1). 18 + 1 + one gap is exactly 20, the full height. Fill rows 1 through 18, leave row 19 blank, and fill row 20.
Rows 8 to 17 (2). Column 11 is filled in every one of these rows, so the 2 is either columns 10–11 or 11–12. Everything else in those ten rows is blank. That's 160 blanks in one move.
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To decide which side of column 11 the long run sits on, look at column 10 (6 11). Count the 11 down from row 8 and see which rows it covers.
Why It's Rated Medium
The canopy gives you a big head start, and the long shaft wipes out most of the grid in one move. The little hook at the bottom (rows 18–20) takes some careful cross-checking, which is what makes it Medium.
Spoiler: what does this puzzle hide?
This puzzle's silhouette combines a wide, scalloped dome with a slender pole and a squared-off hook — good practice for tracking a stepped curve across several columns before switching to a long, thin vertical run. Can you guess what it is before you finish solving?