Nonogram 5×5 (Easy)
Also known as paint by numbers, picture logic puzzles, Japanese crosswords or simply nonograms. Nintendo’s Picross and Conceptis’ Griddlers are the same genre of puzzle.
The 5×5 grid is the friendliest place to learn Nonograms: small enough to take in at a glance, big enough for real deductions. Like every puzzle here it has a single, logic-solvable solution. The game below starts on the 5×5 size automatically.
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How to play Nonogram — the rules
- The numbers beside each row and above each column give the lengths of the filled runs in that line, in order. A clue of 3 1 means a run of three filled squares, then a gap, then one more filled square.
- Tap or click a square to cycle it: empty → filled → marked-empty (✗) → empty. Use ✗ to note squares you have proven are blank — it keeps long lines readable.
- Drag across several squares to fill or mark a whole run at once. Pick the Fill or ✗ tool for what a drag paints; long-press (or right-click) uses the other one for a single square.
- A line is done when its filled runs exactly match its clue. As you go, satisfied clues fade and cross out, so you can see your progress at a glance.
- You never have to guess. Every puzzle is verified to have one solution reachable by logic alone — if you are stuck, re-read a crossing line and a forced square will appear.
Keyboard: arrow keys to move around the grid, Space or Enter to cycle a square, X to mark it empty.
Our guarantee, honestly kept: every puzzle is checked by an independent line-logic solver before it reaches you. It confirms the picture has exactly one solution and that pure line-by-line deduction — no guessing, no backtracking — is enough to complete it. Puzzles that fail either test are rejected and regenerated.