Topic: Gaming Nonograms

Hello and welcome to gaming nonograms, a place for likeminded puzzle enthusiasts. I happen to have a catalog of gaming themed nonograms that I have designed over the years but which have largely just been sitting on my computer with no one to solve them. I thought I'd finally fix that and turn them into a forum game.

I know there are bunch of people here who like Jupiter's Picross series as well as other nonogram games like Murder By Numbers and Piczle Cross but feel free to join in even if you are a complete beginner. I should have perhaps prepared a tutorial in advance for such people. I'll add one later if needed. The internet is your friend in the meantime.

The planned schedule is new puzzle(s) every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Puzzles will become larger and more difficult over time. Saturday's puzzle will generally be slightly harder than the ones on weekdays. The resulting image often depicts a character that can be found in a game that is available on Nintendo consoles but there are some outliers.

Puzzle images are fill tool friendly, consisting only of flat colors, so you can simply copy and paste the image in a program like Paint and solve it using one color for filling and another for crossing. Alternatively, you can either print or copy the puzzle on paper by hand.

Once you have solved a puzzle, you may give an answer as to what the resulting image is. Please, use spoiler tags in order to avoid spoiling the solution to others. Your answer acts as feedback so I know if the image is recognizable or not. Feel free to give additional feedback regarding difficulty and such. I can also keep score if people feel competitive. I will provide the solution to previous puzzle whenever I post the next puzzle. This will also be in spoiler tags. To use spoiler tags, you simply write (spoiler)message here(/spoiler) but replace ( ) with [ ], like this example. If you are still unsure, you can quote any message with spoiler tags and it will show you how the message was formatted.

To get things started, here are the first two puzzles. Have fun!

Just did the two puzzles. I love a good Picross puzzle so I had fun with them.

Puzzle 1: Pac-Man
Puzzle 2: Ghost

This is a cool idea I got Pac-Man and a ghost

Answers to puzzles 1 & 2:

1, Pac-Man:

2, Pac-Man Ghost:

You both got them right!
Glad to see people here. I worried no one would care for my puzzles. Hope to see some new people in the future.

And here's today's puzzle:

Keeping it simple for now.

Looks like a Ninji this time!

Just did the third puzzle.

Puzzle 3: Ninji

Puzzle 3 is indeed:

Ninji

The next two:

Puzzle 4: Among Us crewmate. The game's title was escaping me though, so I did have to do some looking up, lol. Never played Among Us.

Puzzle 5: Edit: Got reminded, it's a Metroid, silly me. Kind of thought it was something else and I wasn't thinking puzzles 4 and 5 would be two separate series.

Puzzle 4: Among Us?
Puzzle 5: Metroid

Answers 4 & 5:

Crewmate/Impostor

Metroid

This batch was the first one I was a bit worried about, mainly puzzle #5. I contemplated if I should give a hint that they are not from the same franchise this time around but decided against it. It speaks more to the quality if you are able to figure them out on your own. They did share a theme though, space, albeit bit accidentally. I didn't initially plan it that way but noticed it before sharing them.

That's it for 5x5 puzzles. I technically have more but they are not all gaming related and the ones that are, aren't up to my standards for this thread. I don't think you'd be able to recognize them. It's pretty hard to fit stuff in such small space.

Anyway, I've rambled for long enough. Here is the next puzzle:

I think #5 is fine, it takes a second to recognise it but that's part of the puzzle in a way!

#6 is a ? Unown

Answer to puzzle #6:

Unown

Puzzle #7:

@Dogorilla As long as one of you recognizes them, it's fine. So far, so good. I try my best to keep them as small as possible without sacrificing recognizability.

@Late
I just solved this in mspaint, of all things, such is my love for picross.

I'm glad you didn't go for too large a canvas, as I'd have been at it all afternoon, but it's nice to try one of these without the modern comforts you'd find in the videogame adaptations.

@edhe Glad to have you here. I chose a slightly larger one for Saturday but I have plenty of smaller puzzles left.

Puzzle 7: Knuckles the Echidna

Took me a minute to figure out who this was but I think it's Knuckles!

I know this is a thread mostly about doing specific small nonograms, but what are everyone's favorite nonogram games normally? I have a lot of Jupiter/Picross and piczle cross games on Switch. And lately I've been working through a physical puzzle book with a bunch if 40x40 nonograms.

@FishyS I've never played the Piczle games, but I do love Picross. I played a few Picross games myself and I've actually wrapped up my last puzzle in Mario's Super Picross last year.

@FishyS Mario's Picross. It's what started my addiction back when it was added to 3DS VC. I'd played bit of Picross 3D before but I prefer 2D puzzles. I've completed every Picross game up to Picross S, except the Japan only Satellaview and Club Nintendo stuff.

My favorite nonogram game that's not made by Jupiter is Murder by Numbers. It's the first nonogram game (I played) that had more to it than just the puzzles as it's also a visual novel murder mystery. Highly recommended.

I've noticed that physical books tend to have larger focus on big nonograms. Probably because they are not restricted by screen resolution. The ones I've been buying have a page or two of smaller puzzles and then it's all large puzzles that fill up the whole page or in some cases, both pages in a spread. Filling cells with a pencil is already slower by default so I'd much rather solve smaller puzzles. I kind of have a speedrunner mentality when it comes to nonograms, largely thanks to Mario's Picross' time trial mode.

If you wanna try something super weird, PICROSS X: PICBITS VS UZBOROSS has a bunch of weird speed run modes where you solve a ton of 5x5s in a row under various conditions.

( and also @D-Star92)

My favorite Jupiter game on Switch is Picross LogiartGrimoire; it's just super cute and has a good assortment of sizes along with a sort of story. Piczle Cross (non Jupiter) is mainly nice because it lists all your best times for each puzzle so is fun to replay. Plus the style of puzzles is very different than the Jupiter games in a hard to explain way.

The one thing I don't like about Mario Picross is that it tells you when you make a mistake. I would rather realize that myself and go back and fix it without the hint.