🖼 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.
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 | 1 1 1 1 | 3 3 | 3 3 | 2 2 | 1 1 1 1 | 4 4 | 3 3 | 1 1 3 1 1 | 2 2 5 2 2 | 23 | 2 2 5 2 2 | 1 1 3 1 1 | 3 3 | 4 4 | 1 1 1 1 | 2 2 | 3 3 | 3 3 | 1 1 1 1 | 0 | |
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Nonograms (also called picross, griddlers, or hanjie) are logic puzzles that hide a picture inside a grid of numbers:
This puzzle is a 21×23 grid — 21 squares across and 23 down. For the full method, edge logic, and tougher techniques once you're ready to level up, read our complete guide to nonograms and advanced nonogram techniques.
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 clues read the same from top to bottom as from bottom to top, and the same from left to right as from right to left: row 3 matches row 21, column 2 matches column 20, and so on. When you crack a square on one side, look at its mirror on the other — the same logic usually works there too. Columns 10 and 12 (2 2 5 2 2) are worth a look early, since the squares you've fixed in rows 9 and 15 leave them very little room.
Every square can be worked out from the clues alone, with no guessing at any point. The grid is a little bigger than our usual 20×20, and the slanted arms are drawn as stair-steps, so many clues are small runs of 1, 2 and 3. But the full-height column and the four crowded rows give you a firm place to start, and the mirror-image clues help you check your work as you go.
No Two Alike solves into a six-pointed snowflake. One arm points straight up and one straight down along column 11, and the other four slant out at 60° to the upper and lower left and right, drawn as stair-steps. Each arm carries two pairs of side branches, and a small solid hexagon sits at the heart of the flake. Real snowflakes grow in six-fold symmetry because of the way water molecules lock together as ice, which is why the grid is taller than it is wide: a six-pointed star simply doesn't fit in a square. Every square can be worked out from the clues alone, so you never have to guess and back up.
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