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Lost and Found

Nonogram · Puzzle No. 132 · ThePuzzleSolver.net

Easy

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.

	0	3	5	6	3 5	11 1 1	13 5	5 7 1 1	5 6 5	6 5 1 1	5 6 5	5 7 1 1	13 5	12 1 1	5	0
5
7
9
9
9
2 2 1 2
3 2 2
3 3 3
8 4
12
11
9
9
8
0
11
1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1
11

16 columns × 20 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 16×20 grid — 16 squares across and 20 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.

Clear columns 1 and 16, and row 15. All three have a clue of 0, so mark them blank. Row 15 splits the grid in two: everything above it is one shape, everything below it is another.
Columns 7 and 13 (13 5). The 5 can’t share the top part of the grid with the 13 (13 + 1 + 5 is 19, and there are only 14 rows above row 15), so it drops into rows 16–20 and fills them all. The 13 then has rows 1–14 to itself, with just 1 square of slack, so rows 2–13 are filled.
Row 10 (12). With columns 1 and 16 blank there are 14 squares to work with, leaving 2 squares of slack. Columns 4–13 are always covered, so fill them.
Columns 9 and 11 (5 6 5). Same trick as move 2: the last 5 is the only run that fits below row 15, so it fills rows 16–20. The 5 and 6 above it have 2 squares of slack in rows 1–14, which fixes rows 3–5 and rows 9–12. Notice the gap between them — something is hiding there.

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Treat the two halves as separate puzzles. In the cuff, rows 17, 18 and 19 each need six 1s with a gap after each one, so compare every column’s last clue with the 5 rows below the gap. In the top half, the small white shape is outlined by the short runs in rows 6, 7 and 8. Columns 8 to 12 tell you where its edges are.

Why It's Rated Easy

Every square can be worked out from the clues alone, with no guessing at any point. The blank row across the middle splits the grid into two smaller puzzles, and several columns have almost no slack once you spot that. The only fiddly part is the small white shape in the middle of the top half, and the clues around it lead you straight to it.

Spoiler: what does this puzzle hide?

Lost and Found solves into a winter mitten, thumb out to the left, with a white knitted heart on the back of the hand. Below it is a ribbed cuff, drawn as a row of stripes. If you’ve ever come home with just one mitten, now you’ve found it.

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