🖼 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.
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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 15×15 grid — 15 squares across and 15 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.
Only rows 3 and 13 are left. Columns 3 and 13 (2 2) are already complete from the top and bottom bars, so rows 3 and 13 are blank there. Each row's 9 has to fit in columns 4 to 12.
Every square can be worked out from the clues alone, with no guessing at any point. Three full columns and four empty ones settle nearly half the grid on your first two moves, and the picture is a perfect mirror image left to right and top to bottom. Like the rest of the alphabet series, it’s a 15×15 grid, so it makes a quick warm-up before something tougher.
Next Stop, India is part of our Phonetic Alphabet series (based on the NATO phonetic alphabet), where every puzzle hides the letter behind its call sign — and India stands for a capital I. A three-square-wide stem runs down the middle, with a wide, two-row bar at the top and bottom that steps in by one square on each side where it meets the stem. It picks up the series right where They Usually Say Hotel left off.
Did you know? India hasn’t always been the word for I. During the Second World War, the American and British “Able Baker” alphabet used Item. The NATO alphabet, with India, took over on March 1, 1956.
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