Slow Squares

Nonogram

Numbers at the edges, a picture inside.

A nonogram — which you may know by other publishers’ names for it, Picross or Griddlers — is a hidden picture: the numbers along the edges say how many cells in each row and column are filled, and in what runs. Here you fill the cells you are sure of and cross out the ones you have ruled out, and the board tells you only what the numbers can: a row’s or a column’s numbers fade once the line shows exactly what they ask for. The pictures are hand-picked icons, and when the last cell falls into place the original drawing appears.

A new board every day — 10 × 10, 15 × 15, and 20 × 20 — the same for everybody, each with a single solution that reasoning alone reaches. No timer and no account needed: a board left half-done waits for you until the day turns, at midnight UTC.

Today’s boards

How to play

Each number counts a run of filled cells in its row or column — the runs come in that order, with at least one empty cell between them.

Fill the cells you can be sure of, and cross out the ones you can rule out.

When every row and column matches its numbers, a small picture appears.

The 1 1 row is two single cells with a gap between them; columns read the same way, top to bottom — and a little heart appears.

How to solve nonograms

Beyond today’s board