Nonograms Japanese Crosswords: Easy and Small Nonograms Puzzle for Beginner and Kids with Animals, Japanese Logic or Pixel Puzzle

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Nonogram is a picture-based logic puzzle that originated in Japan in the late 1980s. A graphics editor called Non Ishida came up with a prize-winning idea to brighten the night-time cityscape of Tokyo. By switching certain lights in skyscrapers on or off, he was able to create images on the buildings. He called it Window Art. A Japanese crossword – is a puzzle, which has a picture encoded in numbers. The aim of the puzzle is to restore this picture in full.

Nonograms — Japanese puzzles with encrypted images of people, animals, or geometric shapes. These crosswords have many names, such as Crucipixel, Edel, FigurePic, Grafilogika, Griddlers, Hanjie, Illust-Logic, Pic-a-Pix, Picross, Pixel Puzzles, Anchor Uftor, and Tsunami Picross. In the nonogram, the drawing is encrypted with rows of numbers. You need to draw the crossword puzzle cells correctly to see the picture. The image always has a semantic load and can contain a figure of a person or animal, an ornament, a geometric figure, etc. Each Japanese puzzle has only one solution. There are no lines and rows in the crossword puzzle without colored cells. At first, no one was interested in the new crosswords, as puzzle lovers did not know how to solve them. It was only when nonograms were printed in the UK in 1989-1990 and appeared in every issue of the Telegraph weekly that Japanese puzzles became popular. The main requirement to Japanese crosswords is that the crossword should have only one logical solution, achieved without any “guessing” (method of trial and error). But unfortunately it is quite often possible to find crosswords with several variants of solution, or crosswords which can’t be solved by purely analytical methods. Sometimes there are even crosswords with mistakes (or more exactly misprints) which make the crossword unsolvable at all. By this reason we recommend beginners not to pay attention to cheap newspapers/magazines with Japanese crosswords and to treat Japanese crosswords in newspapers not specializing on this very kind of crosswords cautiously, as you may often find mistakes in such issues. Also we would like to note that we guarantee our crosswords, that all of them have no mistakes and have only one solution achieved without any “guessing”. Around the same time, a professional Japanese puzzler named Tetsuya Nishio invented a puzzle that worked on a similar principle, called Oekaki-Logic. Puzzles filtered through to several Japanese titles. In 1990, 'The Sunday Telegraph' published Non Ishida's puzzles under the name Nonograms (so named by the UK supplier James Dalgety, with a nod to Non Ishida).In a rectangular grid, use the numeric prompts to draw the cells that make up the drawing. Game history Let’s have a look at the third line. We should remember a little rule, which will help us a lot – if there is only one number near the line or the column and it covers more than half of its length, you can paint several squares in the middle. In our case they are central five squares. Why? No matter how you may place a group of seven squares in nine squares, five central squares are sure to be painted (to count it, you can subtract value of the number from the width of the crossword – you will get number 2, which means the amount of “unknown” squares on the left and on the right, so we paint the rest central five squares).. It is also important never to guess. Only cells that can be determined by logic should be filled. If guessing, a single error can spread over the entire field and completely ruin the solution.

Now we can mark with crosses (or points) the squares which are sure to be left unpainted. Have a look at the first line – it is completely solved, because we already have one painted square and it should contain no more painted squares. It means that we can mark all the rest squares with crosses. We do the same in the sixth and seventh line. Don’t forget to cross out the numbers in the solved rows.

Nonogram #9

From Europe, they spread around the world, got to Russia and returned to Japan. Since then, collections of nonograms have been published in large quantities and are in demand. Now Japanese drawings can be found in many Newspapers and magazines, as well as in the form of computer implementations. Interesting fact Shifting to the lines, we can see that the second and the last two lines are already solved. And in the fifth line we can put crosses on the left and on the right of the deciphered squares, as this line contains nothing but single squares. Initially, Japanese puzzles were two-color, now there are multi-color versions of the game. The maximum size is 150×150 cells. A few minutes are enough to solve a simple nonogram. Complex options require dozens of hours of work. Now we strongly recommend You to solve this crossword once more, but this time independently: switch to the crossword. The enduring popularity of this puzzle outside Japan is largely due to the persistence and enthusiasm of one man, Dave Green. He came across the puzzle on a trip to Tokyo in 1994, began to create his own puzzles with the help of a friend, Igor Lerner, and set up a company to market them.

Start solving with lines with a large number of colored cells. Surely in the crossword puzzle there is a row or row in which only one solution is possible. Shifting to the columns, we see that the first and the last columns are already solved. The only thing left to us is to paint the last squares in the second and the eighth columns and… Congratulations! The crossword is completely solved! To define the numbers, which location is already identified – usually these numbers are crossed out. At the Window Art competition in 1987, the designer designed a skyscraper with dark and burning Windows, and won. The following year, three window Art Puzzles appeared. Around the same time, the second likely Creator of nonograms, the Japanese Tetsuya Nishio, came up with the "drawing by Numbers" puzzle and published it in another publication.First of all we shall look if there are lines in the crossword which should be completely painted. It turns out there are such ones – in our case it is number 9 in the fourth line. As the width of the crossword is just 9 squares – so all the squares in this line should be painted. Also we cross out the number 9, so that it wouldn’t distract us. To define the squares which are sure to be painted (with any possible location of the groups) – so we paint them. To solve a Japanese crossword a person should look at each line/column separately, always moving to the next columns and lines. In so doing the process of solving in each line/column comes to the following: The playing field is divided into squares. On the left and top you can see rows of numbers, they show how many colored cells are in the row and column. Accordingly, each number is the number of fused cells separated by one or more pure cells. In the fifth line we have one painted square and as this square can contain nothing else but single squares, we can mark with crosses the squares on the left/right from the deciphered one. We cannot cross out the numbers because though we have deciphered one number, we don’t know exactly which one. There is a similar situation in the eighth line. Also in the ninth line we can say for sure that the first two squares and the last two squares are sure to be left unpainted. Why? It is just because we have already deciphered one square in this line and the only number in this line – three, should be a part of this painted square.