There was a fun hacker news post a while back [0] about a website that had generated every solvable-without-backtracking 5x5 nonogram. I found it very addictive, and the creator has since released it as a paid mobile app. Highly recommended for commutes!
I built this, the list started as a tutorial and then grew out of control. Especially when I started experimenting with mixing text and interactive elements. I think nonograms are underrated and relatively unknown, I hope this text changes it a little.
I link to my app[1] frequently, it's free right now, I hope this is fine. There's no Android version yet; for anyone who wants to try nonograms on an Android smartphone I recommend Simon Tatham's Puzzles[2] - like my app it is also free, has no ads, etc; nonograms there are called "pattern".
Feedback very welcome; thanks! If you use other nonogram solving techniques and want me to add them to the list please share too.
(if I were to nitpick, for large grids one might want to make the separating line a bit thicker every 5 blocks for faster counting, and repeat numbers at the bottom/right -- but at the size the examples are in neither are needed)
(BTW you didn't mention for overlapping but there's a nice trick: just try from either end, count how many cells are leftover, and take that off the starting side of each block)
The Google play link is broken for me:
> We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server.
Sorry, cannot edit the grandparent post. I copied that invalid link from safari's url bar, perhaps Google Play store did something unexpected with URLs.
Great work but…
In app purchase pop up quotes 0.0 for extra puzzles. My card got charged ~25 USD. I feel I was scammed.
How? If you look at the purchase history in your apple account it should show the actual price, and in mine it shows as free
Same. 'Unlock Image Puzzles' shows an amount of 0.
Wonderfully done, thanks for sharing!
Oooh that's nice! I made a nonogram game as well but never made a tutorial because of how much extra work it would be. Good job on doing the work.
My twist on the game is that it's multiplayer. I posted it on the nonogram subreddit a few years ago and to my surprise I still have a few daily players. I'd recommend posting it there as well, they're nice folks.
I frequently play it on 15x15 and I regenerate it until there are no numbers above 6 (and as few 5s and 6s as possible).
I've been playing this one for a long time now. You can play both on mobile and on the web: https://nonograms-katana.com/ the game has quite big community.
I love nonogram puzzles, they're incredibly calming in times of stress.
The only issue I have is I'm limited with the size of board I can comfortably play on my phone, and I rather keep my laptop as a games free zone.
I thought this was going to be about nomograms. TIL that monograms, nonograms and nomograms exist
There was a fun hacker news post a while back [0] about a website that had generated every solvable-without-backtracking 5x5 nonogram. I found it very addictive, and the creator has since released it as a paid mobile app. Highly recommended for commutes!
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140918
I built this, the list started as a tutorial and then grew out of control. Especially when I started experimenting with mixing text and interactive elements. I think nonograms are underrated and relatively unknown, I hope this text changes it a little.
I link to my app[1] frequently, it's free right now, I hope this is fine. There's no Android version yet; for anyone who wants to try nonograms on an Android smartphone I recommend Simon Tatham's Puzzles[2] - like my app it is also free, has no ads, etc; nonograms there are called "pattern".
Feedback very welcome; thanks! If you use other nonogram solving techniques and want me to add them to the list please share too.
[1]: https://lab174.com/nonoverse/
[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details
Great js implementation! I don't have any iThing but I'd happily play your js version in a browser for a while.
Since you mentioned Simon Tatham puzzles there's a js version here[1], but it really just isn't quite as good
[1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/patt...
(if I were to nitpick, for large grids one might want to make the separating line a bit thicker every 5 blocks for faster counting, and repeat numbers at the bottom/right -- but at the size the examples are in neither are needed)
(BTW you didn't mention for overlapping but there's a nice trick: just try from either end, count how many cells are leftover, and take that off the starting side of each block)
The Google play link is broken for me:
> We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server.
Fixed link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chr...
Sorry, cannot edit the grandparent post. I copied that invalid link from safari's url bar, perhaps Google Play store did something unexpected with URLs.
Great work but… In app purchase pop up quotes 0.0 for extra puzzles. My card got charged ~25 USD. I feel I was scammed.
How? If you look at the purchase history in your apple account it should show the actual price, and in mine it shows as free
Same. 'Unlock Image Puzzles' shows an amount of 0.
Wonderfully done, thanks for sharing!
Oooh that's nice! I made a nonogram game as well but never made a tutorial because of how much extra work it would be. Good job on doing the work.
My twist on the game is that it's multiplayer. I posted it on the nonogram subreddit a few years ago and to my surprise I still have a few daily players. I'd recommend posting it there as well, they're nice folks.
Here's mine. Multiplayer, free, browser-only, no ads/tracking. https://berendswennenhuis.nl/nonogram/
This is currently the best nonogram game (with random generator) on the Internet:
https://liouh.com/picross2/
I frequently play it on 15x15 and I regenerate it until there are no numbers above 6 (and as few 5s and 6s as possible).
I've been playing this one for a long time now. You can play both on mobile and on the web: https://nonograms-katana.com/ the game has quite big community.
I love nonogram puzzles, they're incredibly calming in times of stress.
The only issue I have is I'm limited with the size of board I can comfortably play on my phone, and I rather keep my laptop as a games free zone.
I thought this was going to be about nomograms. TIL that monograms, nonograms and nomograms exist