Entries are added when something actually changed for the person solving here — not on a schedule.
Version history
- 0.20.0
- AddedTen badges on the record page — finishing your first, every size, a 30×30, seven days in a row, a 10×10 inside a minute, and more
- ChangedBadges you have not earned still show, with how far along you are. Knowing what is left is the point
- 0.19.0
- AddedEarlier months are listed on the monthly page — boards finished and total time, newest first
- AddedYour record page counts the days you solved in each month
- 0.18.0
- AddedEach technique page now has a line to try yourself — mark the squares the rule settles, then check
- ChangedNothing checks your answer against a stored key. The rule is run in your browser on the spot
- 0.17.0
- FixedThree pages slid sideways on a phone — the board, the printable sheets and the technique diagrams. All three stay put now
- FixedThe site had no icon and no ads.txt. Both were simply missing
- 0.16.0
- AddedThis month's three boards — 10×10, 15×15 and 20×20, the same three for everyone, with a total time once all three are done
- ChangedSolve a board again and only your faster time is kept
- 0.15.0
- AddedA record page — days in a row, a calendar of the days you finished, and your best time at each size
- ChangedNothing there is uploaded. A different device, or a cleared browser, starts from zero — there is no account to restore from
- 0.14.0
- AddedToday's puzzle — one picture a day, the same one for everyone, chosen by the date and nothing else
- AddedYour run of solved days is counted. It stays in your browser and is never sent anywhere
- ChangedToday's grid is built in your browser, because a page baked yesterday cannot know what day it is for you
- FixedFinish yesterday's puzzle after midnight and it counts for yesterday, not today. Today's puzzle stays unsolved, as it should
- 0.13.0
- AddedA printable page — six puzzles from 10×10 to 20×20, one to a page, answers at the back
- ChangedThe answers print grey rather than black. A 20×20 filled in solid black soaks the paper and empties the cartridge
- ChangedPrinted puzzles carry a number, not a name. The name would be the answer
- 0.12.0
- AddedA page about the picture library — how many at each size, how they are checked, and what makes a drawing fail
- AddedYou can jump straight to a size from that page
- ChangedThere is deliberately no page for each picture. A drawing's title is its answer, and a list of them would give the game away
- 0.11.0
- AddedA page for each of the six rules — when to look for it, the line it fires on, and why it holds
- AddedThe rule a hint names is now the title of a page you can read. They were separate things before
- ChangedTwo rules cover 98 of every 100 steps across the 175 pictures. The table says which
- 0.10.0
- AddedA page on where to start — the first move, why you cross off before you fill, and what to do when a grid stops moving
- AddedThree pictures walk one small puzzle from an empty grid to a finished one
- 0.9.0
- AddedA rules page. Four pictures cover the whole rule set — what a clue counts, why crossing off matters, when a line is done, and what you end up with
- ChangedThe numbers in those pictures are worked out from the pictures themselves, so they cannot drift out of step
- 0.8.0
- AddedThe grid works from the keyboard — arrow keys move, Space fills, X crosses off
- FixedScreen readers were told the grid had rows and columns it did not have. Each square now names itself instead, and a change is announced once rather than square by square
- 0.7.0
- AddedA settings block under the board. It remembers your choices in this browser
- AddedClues of a finished line fade out, so you can see at a glance which lines are still open
- AddedCopy link hands you the address of the picture you are on
- AddedClue numbers get crossed off once their block is definitely placed — counted from the ends inward, never guessed
- AddedOptional square counter and a mark on the square you just changed
- AddedClues can be repeated on the right and along the bottom, so your eye does not have to cross a 30×30 grid to read them
- 0.6.0
- Added175 pictures now — 30 at every size from 10×10 up, and 25 at 5×5
- Changed5×5 stays at 25. Twenty-five squares only hold so many things you can still recognise
- 0.5.0
- Added150 pictures now — 25 at every size. New ones include a bee, a turtle, a dolphin, a windmill and a fishing boat
- 0.4.0
- Added120 pictures now — exactly 20 at every size from 5×5 to 30×30
- ChangedNew subjects at every size: a fox, an owl, a dice, a pine tree, a rocket and fifteen more
- 0.3.0
- Added100 pictures now, and every size from 5×5 to 30×30 has at least 16 of them
- ChangedThe larger sizes used to hand you a machine-made shape that finished without a name. They are real pictures now
- ChangedMost of the set solves with the overlap rule alone, so almost every puzzle reads as Easy. Harder pictures are next
- 0.2.0
- AddedPuzzles are hand-drawn pictures now — 32 of them at 5×5, 10×10 and 15×15. Solve one and it tells you what you drew
- ChangedNew puzzle never gives you the same picture twice in a row
- Changed20×20 and larger are still machine-built shapes, so they finish without a name. Pictures for those sizes are coming
- 0.1.0
- AddedThe board is here. Pick a size from 5×5 to 30×30, fill squares with the left button and cross them off with the right
- AddedHints name the rule they used — overlap, gap too small, out of reach — and light up the line it was read from
- AddedEvery puzzle is checked before you see it. If line-by-line logic cannot finish the grid, the puzzle is thrown away and another is built
- ChangedDifficulty comes from which rules the puzzle needs, not from its size. A 30×30 can be easier than a 10×10
What the puzzles are checked against
What this site relies on, and when that source was last opened. If the date is old, anything that changed since may be missing.
| puzzle | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Solving rule names | nonograms.org — Methods of solving Japanese crosswords | |
| Minimum 24px cell | W3C — WCAG 2.2 SC 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum) |