Printable nonograms
Fill the squares, find the picture — by logic alone.
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Example
Example: a week of 10 × 10 lunchtime puzzles, and the first lines of No. 1
Six easy puzzles for a fourth-grade class, two to a page. Settings: Size Easy — 10 × 10, Puzzles per page Two, Pages 3, Add the answer pages, Sheet number 1, US Letter. These are the numbers printed beside the rows and above the columns of puzzle No. 1.
- Rows 1, 9 and 10 say 0: leave them white. Row 5 says 10: fill it right across.
- Row 4 says 2 4 2, and 2 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 2 = 10, the whole row: two filled, a gap, four filled, a gap, two filled.
- Columns 5, 6 and 7 say 7. With rows 1, 9 and 10 white, only rows 2 to 8 are left, exactly 7 squares, so fill them all.
- Keep going back and forth between rows and columns; No. 1 turns out to be a fish.
| Row | Numbers | Column | Numbers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 6 | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 4 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | 10 | 5 | 7 |
| 6 | 2 7 | 6 | 7 |
| 7 | 1 6 | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | 4 | 8 | 2 4 |
| 9 | 0 | 9 | 5 |
| 10 | 0 | 10 | 3 |
nonogram.pdf, 4 pages: three puzzle pages with two puzzles each, then one answer page with all six pictures (a fish, a mushroom, an umbrella, a pine tree, a mug and a cat). Sheet number 2 gives the pictures in a new order.
How it works
- Choose the size — 10 × 10 is a good first puzzle, 25 × 25 an evening’s work — and how many pages.
- Download and print: the numbers beside each row and above each column give its runs of filled squares, in order.
- Fill the squares that must be filled, mark the ones that cannot be, and the picture appears; the answers follow at the end.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you solve a nonogram?
- Each number is a run of filled squares, in the order they come, with at least one empty square between runs. Start with the long runs: a 7 in a row of 10 must fill the middle four squares whatever its place. Mark the squares that cannot be filled with a dot, and work back and forth between rows and columns.
- Does every puzzle have one answer?
- Yes. Each of the forty pictures was checked to come out by line logic alone — no guessing — and to give exactly one picture.
- Can I make a nonogram from my own picture?
- Yes, with the picture-to-nonogram maker: it turns a photo or a drawing into a puzzle, and gives away a square or two where logic alone would not find the answer.
- What does a 0 mean?
- That row or column has no filled squares at all: mark every square in it as empty. It is often the easiest place to start, together with any number as long as the line itself.
- How many different pictures are there?
- Ten at each size, forty in all. A sheet takes them in an order of its own, set by the sheet number; a set longer than ten puzzles comes round to the same pictures again, turned the other way.
- Is there a footer on it?
- Only on the free plan: a small line “Made with nouplo.com” at the foot of the last page. With Pro there is none. Either way the sheet is made in your browser.