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Cool Customer

Nonogram · Puzzle No. 131 · ThePuzzleSolver.net

Medium

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	3	2	2 3	1 5	1 1 3 5	1 3 1 5 7	25	3 2 1 16	3 5 15	3 5 2 1 1 8	3 5 15	3 2 1 16	25	1 3 1 5 7	1 1 1 3 5	1 1 5	1 2 3	2	3	1
7
7
7
1 1
11
7
2 3 2
12
2 3 2
2 2
1 11 1
2 7 2
2 4 4 2
2 11 2
7 7
11
4 4
7
9
13
15
15
15
13
9

21 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:

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.

This puzzle is a 21×25 grid — 21 squares across and 25 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.

Walkthrough: Your First Four Moves

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.

Fill columns 8 and 14. Both have a clue of 25 — the full height of the grid — so every square in them is filled. Those two lines are the backbone of the whole picture.
Rows 1, 2 and 3 (7). Each 7 has to cover both column 8 and column 14, and those are exactly 7 squares apart, so the run is locked into columns 8–14. Blank everything else in those rows. Rows 6 and 18 (also 7) work exactly the same way.
Row 4 (1 1). Columns 8 and 14 already hold a filled square in this row, so those are your two 1s. Every other square in row 4 is blank.
Rows 21, 22 and 23 (15). A 15 in a 21-wide row has only 6 squares of slack, so wherever it sits it always covers columns 7–15. Fill those in all three rows.

Stuck? Click for a nudge

The clues mirror left to right — column 1 matches column 21, column 2 matches column 20 — except columns 16, 17 and 18, which each carry one extra 1. Those three extra squares all sit in row 8 (12), the only row in the grid that isn’t symmetrical. Also keep an eye on column 11 (3 5 2 1 1 8): its single 1s are small gaps worth hunting for.

Why It's Rated Medium

Every square can be worked out from the clues alone, with no guessing at any point. The two full-height columns hand you a strong start, but the grid is 25 rows tall, and the stick arms are drawn as stair-steps that produce a lot of small 1s and 2s near the edges. You’ll need to cross-check rows against columns to pin those down.

Spoiler: what does this puzzle hide?

Cool Customer solves into a snowman in a black top hat with a white hatband. He has coal eyes, a coal smile, a carrot nose poking out to the right and a scarf at his neck. His stick arms are raised as if he’s cheering, and three coal buttons run down his middle. He’s built the traditional way, from three balls of snow that get bigger toward the bottom.

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