🖼 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.
Columns 10, 11 and 12 (3) and column 13 (2) are all used up at the top, so everything below them is blank. That means row 13’s 6 has to end at column 9. Work down from there, one row at a time.
Every square can be worked out from the clues alone, with no guessing at any point. A full column and four empty ones give you a big start, and the overlap trick on columns 8 and 9 does most of the rest. Unlike the I before it, the J isn’t a mirror image, so the bottom hook takes a little more thought than the top. It’s still a 15×15 grid, like the rest of the alphabet series.
Wherefore Art Thou, Juliett? is part of our Phonetic Alphabet series (based on the NATO phonetic alphabet), where every puzzle hides the letter behind its call sign — and Juliett stands for a capital J. A flat bar runs across the top, a three-square-wide stem drops down from it, and at the bottom the stem curls off to the left into the J’s hook. It follows Next Stop, India in the series.
Did you know? That second t in Juliett isn’t a typo. The alphabet spells it that way for French speakers, who might otherwise treat a single final t as silent. Before the NATO alphabet, the American and British “Able Baker” alphabet used Jig for J.
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