🖼 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.
2
1
2
6 3
6 3
6 3
6 3
6 3
6 3
6 3
2
1
2
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
1 9 1
13
15 columns × 15 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 bottom row's long run. The very bottom of the hat is a single clue of 13 on a 15-wide grid — that run is forced almost end to end, so the brim's base fills in immediately and gives you a foundation to build up from.
Read the split column clues as the hatband. Six of the middle columns share a clue of 6 3. That gap between the 6 and the 3 is the empty band stripe — once you place the taller crown block and the short piece below it, the white ribbon between them appears on its own.
Watch the tapered brim tips. The outer columns near the brim carry small clues like 2 and a lone 1. Those describe the little curled-up corners of the brim, so don't over-fill the edges — the single cells are intentional.
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 rows. Rows 1, 2, 9, 13, 14 and 15 have no clue, and neither do columns 1 and 15. Mark them all blank.
Row 12 (13). With columns 1 and 15 blank, there are exactly 13 squares left. Fill columns 2 through 14. Row 11 (1 9 1) adds up to 1 + 9 + 1 plus two gaps, also exactly 13, so it fits only one way: column 2, columns 4 to 12, and column 14.
Columns 5 to 11 (6 3). Row 9 is blank, which splits each of these columns into rows 3–8 (exactly 6 squares) and rows 10–12 (exactly 3 squares). Fill both pieces in all seven columns.
Tidy up. Rows 3 to 8 and row 10 (7) are now complete, so blank the rest. The small edge columns (1 and 2) are already satisfied by rows 11 and 12. Done!
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Row 9 is completely empty. That one blank row is what splits every middle column into its 6 and its 3.
Why It's Rated Easy
Lots of empty rows, two "exact fit" rows and a single blank stripe that does most of the work. It's a great second puzzle after a first beginner grid.
Spoiler: what does this puzzle hide?
Dapper Topper dresses up the basic box shape with two nice touches: a hatband, drawn as an empty stripe partway up the crown, and a pair of curled-up brim tips where single corner cells break the straight edge. Those two details make it a friendly step beyond a plain rectangle — still an easy solve, but with a couple of spots that reward reading the clues carefully rather than filling on autopilot.
After that I bet you're just itching to do another one!