Gaming Nonograms - General Discussion Forum

Late · 2026-01-01T16:34:20+00:00

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 [spoiler]example[/spoiler]. 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!

Topic: Gaming Nonograms

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Late
2 hours ago

Answer to puzzle #18:

Haunter
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Puzzle #19:
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So, a little extra info about Saturday's puzzle. It's one of the older puzzles, I made it 10+ years ago, but more importantly, it's not line solvable. You'll get to the very end and then you need to take multiple rows into account simultaneously for the last 4x2 pixels. I feel like Jupiter has shied away from puzzles like these lately. Most if not all puzzles are line solvable, meaning you only ever need to go line by line and you'll eventually get to the solution. Puzzle #18 had a simple pattern that will come up again in the future.

I'm simultaneously going through my puzzle archive and some of them appear to be quite hard and I plan to simplify them. I've checked them all in the sense that they all have just one solution but in some cases, I've only let the computer check them for me. Now that I'm manually double-checking them, I've found ones that need some serious advanced techniques while some are practically impossible to do by hand. Most of the problem cases are quite large puzzles that I'll never end up sharing here anyway.

I'd like to hear some opinions on difficulty and puzzle sizes. Are 10x10 and 15x15 good for now or would you rather see an occasional larger puzzle? How did you find puzzle #18? Would you like to see more puzzles that have similar quirks (though preferably not symmetrical)? If you've played Mario's Super Picross, how did you find the later puzzles in Wario mode?

Check out my Gaming Nonograms thread here on Nintendo Life if you are into Picross or other similar games.

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HammerGalladeBro
1 hour ago

I have the solution to puzzle #19 but I cannot figure out what it is, though. It looks like a fire from an oil can in Donkey Kong? Maybe?

As a Picross fan, how did I miss this topic?
I think the only puzzle I've made myself that I can remember is a Doraemon one on Picross DS. I made it based on a Japanese commercial, cannot remember which one in specific but I do remember at the end showing some dominoes falling to form an image of him, that's when I tried to make it as close as possible to that dominoes image.
Maybe I'll do a PC version of it if I still have said puzzle on Picross DS.

Those Wario mode puzzles in Mario's Super Picross made sure the game was my most played SNES NSO game by far. It made say What? Now I have to solve the title screen?

Rusty's Real Deal Baseball is now a hidden gem of the Nintendo 3DS.

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