Nonograms — Japanese puzzles with encrypted images of people, animals, or geometric shapes. These crosswords have many names, such as Crucipixel, Edel, FigurePic, Grafilogika, Griddlers, Hanjie, Illust-Logic, Pic-a-Pix, Picross, Pixel Puzzles, Anchor Uftor, and Tsunami Picross.
In a rectangular grid, use the numeric prompts to draw the cells that make up the drawing.
Game history
Nonograms appeared in Japan at the end of the last century, the author of the puzzle is still undetermined, although two contenders are known. The first is Illustrator and designer Non Ishida, who claims to have used nonograms since 1970 to communicate with animals. ISIS believed that understanding is only hindered by the lack of communication, conducted research and created a system of signs from black and white squares.
At the Window Art competition in 1987, the designer designed a skyscraper with dark and burning Windows, and won. The following year, three window Art Puzzles appeared. Around the same time, the second likely Creator of nonograms, the Japanese Tetsuya Nishio, came up with the "drawing by Numbers" puzzle and published it in another publication.
At first, no one was interested in the new crosswords, as puzzle lovers did not know how to solve them. It was only when nonograms were printed in the UK in 1989-1990 and appeared in every issue of the Telegraph weekly that Japanese puzzles became popular.
From Europe, they spread around the world, got to Russia and returned to Japan. Since then, collections of nonograms have been published in large quantities and are in demand. Now Japanese drawings can be found in many Newspapers and magazines, as well as in the form of computer implementations.
Interesting fact
Initially, Japanese puzzles were two-color, now there are multi-color versions of the game. The maximum size is 150×150 cells. A few minutes are enough to solve a simple nonogram. Complex options require dozens of hours of work.
It is proved that to increase the intellectual potential, you need to spend at least half an hour every day solving puzzles. Nonograms cannot be solved without using logical and imaginative thinking. Solve Japanese puzzles-it's fun and useful!
