Nonogram
Nonograms , also called Japanese puzzles , are logic puzzles and were invented by the designer Non Ishida.
description
In 1986, Ishida won the Window Art competition, which was about lighting only certain rooms in skyscrapers so that an image of the skyscraper could be seen from the outside. This gave her the idea of inventing a kind of puzzle. In 1989 she showed the finished idea to James Dalgaty, who named these puzzles after her, namely nonograms. So far several books have been published by the two of them.
In 1995, the Japanese video game manufacturer Nintendo helped this form of puzzle to further fame with the game Mario's Picross , which appeared on the Game Boy . This series of games was later continued with successors such as Picross DS on the Nintendo DS and the Picross e titles on the Nintendo 3DS . In March 2010, Nintendo added a dimension to these puzzles. In Picross 3D , the well-known game principle was represented three-dimensionally. In addition, Eidos Interactive launched Color Cross for the Nintendo DS in 2008 . With this game, the nonograms got color “on the face”.
The game consists of a grid of any number of boxes (e.g. 10 × 10 or 10 × 15). The aim is to color (or not color) the cells of a grid in such a way that the colored boxes in each row and column correspond to the specified number and structure. The number sequence “4 2 1” in front of a line contains, for example, the information that in this line (with at least one box spacing) a block of four contiguous cells, a block of two contiguous cells and a single cell are to be colored in this order. A (mostly unambiguous) solution can be logically derived from the combination of row and column information .
There are now multicolored nonograms based on the same principle. However, an empty box is not necessary between different colored blocks. If blocks of the same color meet, at least one empty box must be drawn as with the single-color nonograms. Because of the different distance rules within a nonogram, more concentration is required here.
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literature
- Non Ishida, James Dalgaty: “Sunday Telegraph” Book of nonograms . Pan Books, London 1994, ISBN 0-330-33664-9
Web links
- More than 4000 games online
- JCross: play nonograms online (also optimized for mobile devices)
- Nonograms on janko.at
- Goobix nonogram
- Tileminator, open source nonogram game