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True North

Nonogram · Puzzle No. 133 · 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.

	6	10	7 1	4 8	2 2 8	2 2 3 1	3 2 8	2 3 2 8	4 3 2 3 1	8 2 8	8 2 8	4 3 2 3 1	2 3 2 8	3 2 8	2 2 3 1	2 2 8	4 8	7 1	10	6
4
6
6
4
2
8
12
14
2 2
16
18
2 2
18
18
20
2 2 2 2 2 2 2
2 2 2 2 2 2 2
2 2 2 2 2 2 2
2 2 2 2 2 2 2
20

20 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 20×20 grid — 20 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.

Fill rows 15 and 20. Both have a clue of 20 — the full width of the grid — so every square is filled.
Rows 16 to 19 (2 2 2 2 2 2 2). Seven 2s take up 14 squares, plus 6 gaps between them makes exactly 20. There’s no slack at all, so each row reads fill 2, skip 1, all the way across.
Columns 10 and 11 (8 2 8). 8 + 2 + 8 plus two gaps is exactly 20, so these columns are fully solved too: rows 1–8 filled, row 9 blank, rows 10–11 filled, row 12 blank, rows 13–20 filled.
Rows 11, 13 and 14 (18). An 18 in a 20-wide row has just 2 squares of slack, so columns 3–18 are always filled.

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The clues mirror left to right: column 1 matches column 20, column 2 matches column 19, and so on. Rows 9 and 12 (2 2) are the interesting ones. Columns 10 and 11 already told you they’re blank in the middle, so each 2 has to hug an edge of the picture. The columns on either side tell you exactly which edge.

Why It's Rated Easy

Every square can be worked out from the clues alone, with no guessing at any point. Four full rows and four rows with zero slack solve almost a third of the grid before you’ve thought hard about anything. The top of the picture takes a little more care, but the mirror-image clues make it easy to check your work.

Spoiler: what does this puzzle hide?

True North solves into a toque — the Canadian word for a knitted winter hat. It has a round pom-pom on top, two stripes across the crown and a thick ribbed brim folded up at the bottom. Elsewhere it might be called a beanie or a stocking cap, but in Canada it’s a toque, and you don’t leave the house without one.

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