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All Roads Lead to Lima

Nonogram · Puzzle No. 142 · 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	2	15	15	2 2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	0	0
4
4
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2 2
11
11

15 columns × 15 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 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.

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.

The easy columns. Columns 3 and 4 each have a clue of 15, so fill them top to bottom. Columns 1, 14 and 15 have a clue of 0, so mark them blank all the way down.
The overlap trick at the bottom. Rows 14 and 15 each read 11, and with three columns blank there are only 12 squares left (columns 2 to 13). However the run slides, columns 3–12 are filled, so fill them in both rows.
The short columns. Columns 6 to 11 each have a clue of 2, and move 2 just gave every one of them a pair in rows 14–15. That’s their whole clue, so rows 1–13 are blank in all six columns.
The top rows. Rows 1 and 2 each read 4. The run has to include columns 3 and 4, column 1 is blank and column 6 is now blank too, so the only fit is columns 2–5. Rows 3–12 read just 2, which columns 3 and 4 already cover, so everything else in those rows is blank.

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Look at column 5. Its 2 2 has the top pair in rows 1–2, so the bottom pair must be rows 14–15, and row 13 is blank there. Now row 13’s second 2 can only go in columns 12 and 13, and columns 12 and 13 (3) settle the bottom-right corner.

Why It's Rated Easy

Every square can be worked out from the clues alone, with no guessing at any point. Two full columns, three empty ones and two long rows across the bottom give you most of the picture before you’ve thought hard about anything. The only real decision is where the bottom bar starts and stops, and the little upturned end on the right settles that. It’s a 15×15 grid, like the rest of the alphabet series — and probably the gentlest letter so far.

Spoiler: what does this puzzle hide?

All Roads Lead to Lima is part of our Phonetic Alphabet series (based on the NATO phonetic alphabet), where every puzzle hides the letter behind its call sign — and Lima stands for a capital L. A two-square-wide stem runs down the left side with a little serif cap on top, and a thick bar runs along the bottom with a small upturned tip at its right end. It follows One Kilo, Please in the series.

Did you know? Lima, the capital of Peru, gave its name to the lima bean, which was shipped out of Peru to the rest of the world. The city is said LEE-mah, but in North America the bean is usually LY-mah. Before the NATO alphabet, the American and British “Able Baker” alphabet used Love for L.

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All Roads Lead to Lima

How to Solve This Nonogram

Walkthrough: Your First Four Moves

Why It's Rated Easy

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