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.
0
0
0
0
11
1 12
1 13
12
12
1 1 12
12
12
10
2 2
2 1
1 1
5
1
0
0
0
1 1
0
1 1
1
7
9
9 1
13
10 1
9 2
10 1
13
9
9
9
8
0
0
0
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 empty lines. Rows 1, 3, 18, 19 and 20 have no clue, and neither do columns 1–4, 19 and 20. Mark them blank. That leaves a working area 14 squares wide (columns 5 to 18).
Rows 9 and 13 (13). In 14 squares, a run of 13 has just 1 square of wiggle room, so columns 6 through 17 are filled. Row 7 (9) gives you columns 10 to 13.
Column 5 (11). Row 3 is blank, so the 11 has to fit in rows 4 to 17. That leaves 3 squares of wiggle room, so rows 7 through 14 are filled.
Columns 8, 9, 11 and 12 (12). Same idea: the 12 has to fit in rows 4 to 17, with 2 squares of wiggle room, so rows 6 through 15 are filled in all four columns. The main shape is now clearly blocked in.
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The lone 1s at the start of columns 6, 7 and 10 are little pieces floating above the main shape. Match them up with rows 2, 4 and 5.
Why It's Rated Medium
The main body comes together fast, but the small piece on the right (rows 8–12) and the scattered single squares at the top need careful cross-checking. Still no guessing, but more fiddly than an Easy grid.
Spoiler: what does this puzzle hide?
This puzzle pairs a solid rectangular body with an open handle loop and a few wisps rising off the top — a great introduction to solving clues around a hollow shape, where row clues split into separate segments instead of one solid run. See if you can picture the object before the grid gives it away.
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