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What changed

Entries are added when something actually changed for the person solving here — not on a schedule.

Version history

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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.

puzzleSourceChecked
Solving rule namesnonograms.org — Methods of solving Japanese crosswords
Minimum 24px cellW3C — WCAG 2.2 SC 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum)