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Colouring in for anal adults - PICROSS THREAD!
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So from about 7pm last night I've become completely addicted to PICROSS (aka Nonograms). They're awesome.
It's a bit like Soduku, if 1) Soduku was good, and 2) You got an awesomely shitty pixel art picture of a penguin at the end rather than some rubbish list of numbers.
I'm playing it in with Essential Soduku on the DS which is less than a tenner on amazon, under no circumstances can recognise your handwriting for the number 5, and has been woefully translated. However it also has 1000 Picross puzzles. And is thus an awesome game.
You have a grid with numbers at the top and bottom, that correspond to how many squares you need to fill in that row or column. For a 10x10 grid a number 10 at the top would mean color in the entire row. a 5 and a 3 would mean there is a block of 5 and a block of 3 somewhere in this row (that can't touch each other). Putting crosses where you've worked out their CAN'T be a block is the key to lots of satisfying nonsense.
My new puzzling obssesion will (hopefully) decay over the next few days. But come on. Join me for the ride.
So from about 7pm last night I've become completely addicted to PICROSS (aka Nonograms). They're awesome.
It's a bit like Soduku, if 1) Soduku was good, and 2) You got an awesomely shitty pixel art picture of a penguin at the end rather than some rubbish list of numbers.
I'm playing it in with Essential Soduku on the DS which is less than a tenner on amazon, under no circumstances can recognise your handwriting for the number 5, and has been woefully translated. However it also has 1000 Picross puzzles. And is thus an awesome game.
You have a grid with numbers at the top and bottom, that correspond to how many squares you need to fill in that row or column. For a 10x10 grid a number 10 at the top would mean color in the entire row. a 5 and a 3 would mean there is a block of 5 and a block of 3 somewhere in this row (that can't touch each other). Putting crosses where you've worked out their CAN'T be a block is the key to lots of satisfying nonsense.
My new puzzling obssesion will (hopefully) decay over the next few days. But come on. Join me for the ride.
The Internet wrote:
The Rules of Picross
A little reminiscent of Minesweeper, the rules are simple.
(1) Squares are either filled or empty.
(2) The numbers before each row or on top of that column indicate exactly the pattern of filled squares in that row or column.
# For instance, if the number says "4", that means there are four filled squares in a row in that column, and the rest are empties.
# If the number says "4 5", that means there are four filled squares in a row in that column, some number of empty squares, and then five filled squares in a row (and then empties, in any squares are left).
# "2 1 2 1" means the pattern in that row is two filled squares, some number of empties, 1 filled square, some number of empties, 2 filled squares in a row, some number of empties, and then one filled square (and then empties, if any squares are left).
# And so on.
It's a logic puzzle; your goal is to figure out the position of filleds and empties in the whole grid. At the end of each level, you're rewarded with the semi-abstract picture you just uncovered.
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There is a Picross game for the DS too.
http://mpierce.pie2k.com/picross.html
Also, an easier warmup puzzle:
http://mpierce.pie2k.com/picross2.html
This...
....is something? What an odd and fucking cool concept.
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Normally there is a full/empty column or row that you can immedietly fill with Black or Crosses (Crosses are essential to tell you were you have cleared). Then work around it. The 7 row must intersect as it's the only place it can fit etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picross - has a strategy guide - but its more fun to work it out on your own to be fair.
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Yep. and the groups can't touch.
I played it last night and It basically went:
1st puzzle: What?
2nd puzzle: Er, I think I get it?
3rd puzzle: Why am I doing this?
4th puzzle: I AM IN LOVE!
The Essential Sudoku version is a bit different ihough. It has different colours. So that your little penguin say, can have a blue tie, and a pink beak. It rules.
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Looking back, I can't believe they released it in America.
EDIT: Holy shit, I thought I was the only one!
Fucking Yes
EDIT: Did this get a European release? -- I'm off to ebay...
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:rotate:
I am a freaking nerd.
I checked. American only as far as I can tell. Seems hard to get too, but there is a couple of copies on ebay. I'm very tempted - but far too skint.
That and I figure I would be bidding against at least one person here...
When the maddening addiction creaps in that is...
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I am a freaking nerd.
Can't remember what they were now - how about we keep a solution list:
Scholar and a Gentleman? Critical of bad science and religion? Skeptobot - Is for you!!
Ah okay, I can kind of see puzzle 2 being that
I am a freaking nerd.
Damn straight it is (keep tabbing to it, whilst trying to work).
All i've worked out so far, is that all the ones labled 10+ must at least fill the middle 5 of the row/column. So that fills a lot in off the centre. Past that, I'm not sure yet (really need to work!)...
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also, for higher numbers you can fill in more than the middle 5, 13 for example you can fill in the middle 5, plus 3 in each direction.
I am a freaking nerd.
Some people might not call this a real puzzle genre, because in most games, you get dinged if you make a mistake and clear a block that shouldn't. Thereby reducing the entire difficulty to trial and error if your memory is good. Which is where the Wario mode came into play. There's no indication, no error, no penalty if you make a mistake. Which is where the puzzle aspect and difficulty really shine. And it seems that's the rule base the link in the OP is using. Which makes it 100x more fun.
Viva la picross!
I am a freaking nerd.
EDIT: Puzzle Japan seems to be down at the moment.
Essential Soduku's Picross section (which to be honest seems more developed than the soduku part) is a lot better than the flash game I linked. Better picture's for a start. It comes accross looking like homebrew - but it's really good.
You get no info till you complete the whole puzzle (getting 'dinged' would ruin it). And it rates you for speed (good, medium, bad).
It spilts the 1000 puzzles into ten groups of 100 so you would have to stuck on ten before you had no new ones to try.
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It does, the picture changes to solid black and white.
I am a freaking nerd.
Puzzle 9:
Puzzle 10:
EDIT: Oh good.... hit a brick wall on Puzzle 11. As far as I can tell, it's unsolvable without guessing. yay
EDIT: Got it through guessing.
Puzzle 11:
Puzzle 12:
Puzzle 13:
Puzzle 14:
Puzzle 15:
Puzzle 16:
Puzzle 17:
Puzzle 18:
Puzzle 19:
Puzzle 20:
Puzzle 21:
Puzzle 22:
Puzzle 23:
Puzzle 24:
Puzzle 25:
Puzzle 26:
Puzzle 27:
Puzzle 28:
Puzzle 29:
Puzzle 30:
Puzzle "Joke":
Puzzle "Winner":
So... yeah, there's all of 'em. Man I