🖼 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
1 3
2 3
1 1
1 1
3 1 1
1 11
3 1 1
1 1
1 1
2 3
1 3
1
3
1 1
3
1
2 1 2
9
1
1
1
2 1 2
4 1 4
2 1 1 1 2
3
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 tall central column. Column 7 reads 1 11 — that long 11-run drops straight down the middle of the grid. Mark it first and everything else builds around it.
Lay the wide bar across the top. Row 6 is a single 9 — one solid run near the top. Center it and it pins the columns on either side of that middle line.
Mirror the base, left to right. The lower rows split into separate blocks (4 1 4, then 2 1 1 1 2) that sweep outward. The picture is left-right symmetric, so whatever you place on one side, mirror on the other.
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. Rows 1 and 15 have no clue, and neither do columns 1 and 15. That leaves a 13×13 working area.
Column 8 (1 11). 1 + 11 plus one gap is exactly 13. Fill row 2, leave row 3 blank, and fill rows 4 through 14.
The single rows. Rows 5, 8, 9 and 10 each have a clue of just 1, and column 8 already supplies it. Mark the rest of those rows blank.
Rows 7 and 12. Row 7 (9) has to include column 8 and has 4 squares of wiggle room, so columns 6 through 10 are filled. In row 12 (4 1 4), the 1 is column 8, so the first 4 fits in columns 2–6 and the second in columns 10–14. One square of wiggle room each means columns 3–5 and 11–13 are filled.
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Row 3 has two single squares (1 1). They sit on either side of column 8, which you've already marked blank in that row.
Why It's Rated Easy
One long centre column gives away 12 squares on the first move, and the shape is a mirror image left to right. Lots of single-square rows make it quick to clear the empty space.
Spoiler: what does this puzzle hide?
Hold Me Steady is a classic ship’s anchor — a ring at the top, a long central shank, a stock bar across the top, and two curved flukes sweeping up from the base. As an Easy 15×15 it’s a friendly introduction to reading a symmetric shape: the strong central column and single crossbar give you an easy foothold, and the matching sides let you mirror your logic from left to right.