🖼 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 2
15
15
2 3 2
2 3 2
2 3 2
2 3 2
2 3 2
2 5 2
2 2
2 2
2 2
3 3
3 3
0
14
14
2 2
2
2
2 1
8
8
8
2 1
2
2
2 2
14
14
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 biggest clues. A row or column clue close to the full width tells you the whole line is nearly filled — mark those first.
Watch for lone single clues. A clue of just 1 sitting between two solved lines can often be pinned down early using the cells already fixed above and below 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.
The obvious ones first. Columns 2 and 3 have a clue of 15, so fill them top to bottom. Column 15 is 0, so mark it blank.
The four big bars. Rows 1, 2, 14 and 15 each have a clue of 14. With column 15 empty, there's only one place a 14 can go: columns 1 through 14. Fill all four rows completely.
The thin rows. Rows 4, 5, 11 and 12 each have a single 2. Columns 2 and 3 are already filled, so that's the whole run. Mark everything else in those rows blank. Then rows 7, 8 and 9 (8): the run has to include columns 2–3, so it starts in column 1 or 2, and columns 2 through 8 are filled.
Column 9 does the rest. Its clue is 2 5 2. The top 2 is rows 1–2 and the bottom 2 is rows 14–15. Rows 4, 5, 11 and 12 are blank in this column, so the 5 has to fit exactly in rows 6 through 10. That also answers the little 1 at the end of rows 6 and 10.
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Rows 3 and 13 have two runs of 2. The first is right up against the left side. To place the second, look at columns 13 and 14 (3 3). Each run of 3 has to include the filled squares from the big bars.
Why It's Rated Easy
Four rows are completely solid and two columns run the full height. That's more than a third of the filled squares handed to you on the first pass. What's left is short, simple runs that only fit one way. No guessing.
Spoiler: what does this puzzle hide?
Echo Echo Echo isn't just a title that repeats itself — solve the grid and a bold, blocky letter E appears, built from a thick top bar, a full-height spine, and a shorter middle arm. It's a fitting picture for the word that means "the letter E" whenever it's spelled out over a radio: say "Echo," and this is the shape the listener writes down.
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