🖼 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.
7
9
5 11
20
22
21
20
21
22
20
5 11
9
9
3
3 3
10
9
7
1 1
2 2
7
7
9
9
9
9
9
7
9
11 3
13 4
13 4
13 3
13 3
13 3
13 3
18
16
9 4
7
25 columns × 25 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:
Begin with the tall center columns. Two columns near the middle carry a clue of 22 on a 25-tall grid. A run that long is forced through almost the entire column, so filling those first gives you the cat's solid core to build outward from.
Read the two tiny top clues as ears. The very top rows show split clues of 1 1 and 2 2 — those small separated blocks are the two triangular ears with a gap of head between them. Place them early and the head's width is locked in.
Let the wide base rows anchor the bottom. Near the bottom the rows swell to runs like 18 and 16 before tapering. That widening is the seated haunches spreading out, and the split clue with a small second number is the curled tail sitting just off to one side.
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 border. Rows 1, 24 and 25 have no clue, and neither do columns 1–6 and 25. Mark them blank. The working area is columns 7 to 24 (18 wide) and rows 2 to 23 (22 tall).
The tallest columns. Columns 11 and 15 have a clue of 22, exactly the working height, so fill rows 2 through 23. Columns 12 and 14 (21) give you rows 3 to 22, and columns 10, 13 and 16 (20) give you rows 4 to 21.
Row 20 (18). Exactly the working width, so fill columns 7 through 24.
Rows 14 to 19. Rows 14 and 15 (13 4) add up to 13 + 4 + one gap, exactly 18, so fill columns 7–19 and 21–24. Rows 16 to 19 (13 3) leave just 1 square of wiggle room, so columns 8–19 and 22–23 are filled.
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Once the main body is in, columns 21 to 24 are their own little shape off to the right. Work those four columns against rows 13 to 22 on their own.
Why It's Rated Hard
At 25×25 with so many filled squares, the challenge is mostly careful counting over a big area. Every square can still be found one line at a time. Take your time, and a pencil helps if you're printing it.
Spoiler: what does this puzzle hide?
Furry Purry is a cat sitting upright and facing you, ears perked and tail curled around to one side. As a 25×25 Hard puzzle it rewards patience: the big symmetric body fills in steadily once the center columns are set, but the ears at the top and the curl of the tail on the side are where careful clue-reading pays off. A satisfying solve for anyone who likes their nonograms to end in something cute.
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