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Nanograms Katana & Hungry Cat Nanograms Purrfect Edition are simple and fun puzzle games.
Nonograms Katana gets recommended often as does Hungry Cat Picross
Edit: My personal favorite is the one that was already mentioned though, from Konami
Nonograms Katana is probably what you're looking for. I prefer Hungry Cat Picross but it's game mechanic is a bit different from what the Konami screenshots look like. It's probably also easier than Nonograms Katana.
If you like these, check out Nonograms Katana. Amazing interface and updates often with new puzzles. I've been addicted for nine months now.
Nonograms Katana | 4.7 ⭐️ | Free with IAP | Varies with device |
> Nonograms Katana: Sharpen your mind! Nonograms, also known as Hanjie, Griddlers, Picross, Japanese Crosswords, Japanese Puzzles, Pic-a-Pix, "Paint by numbers" and other names, are picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid must be colored ...
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My favorite nonograms app is nonograms katana, it has near infinite puzzles, plus a lot of options for display and controls which might be helpful.
Nonograms Katana is not a typical "brain game" but it definitely involves using your brain and helps to sharpen it over time. And the great thing about this app is that it starts off really easy and you can move up to harder stuff as you feel comfortable.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross
Similar type of puzzle, logic and has a grid. But the overall goal is different.
Picross is about making a picture using the information given to you, whereas Sudoku is about fitting the numbers 1-9 within every row, column and 3x3 section.
Picross gives you a blank grid and tells you roughly how many squares will need to be coloured in each row or column.
Picross games tend to have a tutorial and its much easier to understand it by giving it a go.
You can download a picross game on your smartphone to see how they fair with you. I recommend this one mainly because it's small and has S-Pen features (although totally optional)
Nonograms! Not exclusively mobile, but I've had several apps installed in my phone. My favorite is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross
I also like escape games. The Cube Escape and Adventure Escape series are some of the best.
This one on android is my fave app. It is the best UI and and the widest # of ones to do. Can't recommend it highly enough for when I am miserable and it gives me a feeling I'm doing something positive
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross
Nonograms (japanese picture puzzles). I've solved over 1,500 in the last 18 months.
I suggest using this app for nonograms. Little ads, more and better puzzles, up to 80x80 and a cool progression system.
I have that kind of game for android
Quick explanation... I hope
I am making a program that solves nonograms is a few different ways. For some reason, I am perfecting a depth-first search. I calculate the combinations of each row and column tomography (the numbers). Because once a DFS gets the first columns tomography correct, more and more elements of later columns tomography lock into place easier. So the later columns combinations mean less.
How this representation works is, the heat is the log of the tomographies combinations (purple is the coldest, red is the hottest, running through the rainbow). The heat is scaled, the range of colors go from the least amount of combinations in the puzzle to the most. The scale for the rows/columns is shared. The scale from the row x col is shared.
Top row is the column tomography from left to right: unweighted, weighted from the left, weighted from the right.
2nd row is the row tomography from left to right: unweighted, weighted from the top, weighted from the bottom.
3rd row is col x row combinations, unweighted, from top left, from top right
4th row is the solution, bottom left, bottom right.
Using this my DFS search has a safer bet on where to start based on the least amount of combinations. It isn't a guarantee though. Some of the heatmaps look cool! Uhhhhh...I hope I've explained it enough >.<
The puzzles I analyzed are from the Android app Nonogram Katana, and http://webpbn.com/
I push my program here on occasion
Nonograms Katana has, I think, the best interface and has ruined me for all other picross games.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross&hl=pl&gl=US
Ó o app do Katana aqui.
Nonograms Katana | 4.7 rating | Free with IAP | 5,000,000+ downloads | Search manually
> Nonograms Katana: Sharpen your mind! Nonograms, also known as Hanjie, Griddlers, Picross, Japanese Crosswords, Japanese Puzzles, Pic-a-Pix, "Paint by numbers" and other names, are picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid must be colored ...
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I've tried them all, and this one is by far the best.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross
Nonograms Katana: has both B&W and color puzzles, as well as user-made ones for a pretty much endless library
Nonograms (aka picross) are pretty fun and the one I use has stylus features I believe
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross
Nongrams Katana https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross
I find it unplayable without the s-pen because the squares are so small. With the s-pen its great.
From Google Play, my personal favorite is Nonogram Katana :)
My Girl loves those games and as I consider them special interest, i'd like to leave 2 non 3ds related rec's to that topic
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#1
huge archive of printable picross (sortable by rating, difficulty etc and printable, those picross magazines cost a fortune where we live)
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#2
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross&hl=de&gl=US
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the one android picross app she plays over and over again. (also with tons of user created content)
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Hope anyone interested find's this helpful.
happy puzzling
I love nonograms katana, I really think it's the best nonograms app on android rn
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross
I like this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross
Nonograms Katana. I've played this for years on the note. Best stylus game I have found.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross&hl=en_US&gl=US
It's called Nonograms katana. On Google play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross
Best app for Android is Nanogram Katana
You should try this app instead. It's a bit uglier but better in most other ways
Nonograms Katana | 4.7 rating | Free with IAP | 5,000,000+ downloads | Search manually
> Nonograms Katana: Sharpen your mind! Nonograms, also known as Hanjie, Griddlers, Picross, Japanese Crosswords, Japanese Puzzles, Pic-a-Pix, "Paint by numbers" and other names, are picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid must be colored ...
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My favourite Nonogram game for Android is this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross
Nonograms katana has a huge library and different ways to play (color picross), and has been very reliable for me
I played this one for a long time a while ago. It's endless, almost.
Nonograms
Play store link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross
the pen is really nice for doing nonograms. I use this app but I've not tried others yet https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucdevs.jcross&hl=en
I really hate how the top three comments are all joke answers. Any nonograms game is always good. Play Magnus is good as well.
EDIT: Forgot my favorite one! Simon Tatham's Puzzles has a bunch of great puzzle games. 39 games, completely free, no ads.