Nonogram
Nonograms, also known as Japanese puzzles, are logic puzzles and were invented by the designer Non Ishida.
Description
Ishida won the 1986 Window Art competition, where it was to make in skyscrapers in specific rooms only light so that an image on the skyscraper was visible from the outside. Thus they came up with the idea to invent a kind of puzzle. In 1989, she was the final idea Dalgaty James, who named this puzzle by her, namely Nonograms. Until now, several books have been published of the two.
Published in 1995, the Japanese computer game maker Nintendo game Mario's Picross named for the Game Boy, which took up this game idea and made it even more popular. In 2007, another Nonogrammspiel of Nintendo appeared under the name Picross DS, which was released for the portable game console Nintendo DS. In March 2010, Nintendo released a new Nonogrammspiel. In Picross 3D well known game concept was presented in three dimensions. It was also brought to the market for the Nintendo DS, 2008 by Eidos Interactive Colour Cross, thus received the Nonograms color " in the face".
The game consists of a grid of any number of boxes (eg 10 x 10 or 10 x15 ). The aim is to color as the cells of a grid (or not to color ), is that the colored box in each row and column correspond to the specified for number and structure. The numbers " 4 2 1 " in front of a line contains for example the information that in this line ( with at least one box distance ) is a block of four adjacent cells, a block of two contiguous cells as well as a single cell to color in this order. The combination of row and column information to a (usually unique) solution can be derived logically.
Meanwhile, there are also multi-colored Nonograms that are based on the same principle. Here, however, not an empty box is required between different colored blocks. Meet blocks of the same color to each other, at least one empty box must be marked as in the monochromatic Nonogrammen. Due to the different spacing rules within a Nonogramms here more concentration is required.