Every puzzle you get is a drawing, not a random pattern. That is not a decorative choice — random patterns mostly cannot be solved.
| Size | Pictures | Start |
|---|---|---|
| 5×5 | 25 | Play 5×5 |
| 10×10 | 30 | Play 10×10 |
| 15×15 | 30 | Play 15×15 |
| 20×20 | 30 | Play 20×20 |
| 25×25 | 30 | Play 25×25 |
| 30×30 | 30 | Play 30×30 |
| 175 | pictures in all | |
There is no page for each picture. The title of a drawing is its answer, and a list of them would give the game away before you started.
Random squares do not make a puzzle
Fill a grid at random and it almost never works out. At a third of the squares filled, fewer than one random grid in a hundred can be finished by logic at all — the clues come out as scattered ones and twos, and a line with many short runs can sit in too many places.
A drawing is different. Its filled squares run together, so the clues come out as a few long numbers, and long numbers pin a line down. Symmetric, blocky drawings finish by logic about nine times in ten.
What makes a drawing fail
Single-square diagonals are the worst offender: every clue becomes a 1, and a five-by-five X could not be finished at all. Detached pieces — a kite's tail, spots on a mushroom cap — do the same on a smaller scale.
Repeating a pattern hurts too. A balloon with two identical vertical stripes would not resolve; the same balloon with horizontal bands did. So does a thin outline: a clock drawn with a two-square rim failed, and the same clock with a three-square rim was fine.
A hole punched in the middle of a large solid shape can break it, though not always. A whale lost its eye to make the grid work, while the smiley, the cat and the owl keep theirs.
Nothing here is borrowed
Every drawing is original. One early attempt looked too much like a character that belongs to someone else and was thrown away rather than renamed.
If you think a picture resembles something you hold rights to, get in touch and it will be removed.