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#228Sat, Aug 16, 2025

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hard25 x 25
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A free nonogram (picross) puzzle, fresh every day. Use the row and column number clues to fill in the correct cells.

About puzzle #228

Nonogram #228 appeared on Sat, Aug 16, 2025 as hard difficulty on a 25x25 grid. Its solution fills 220 of 625 cells — 35% density, a fairly open picture where empty cells do a lot of the work. The clues break down into 89 runs across all rows and columns. The longest single run is 17 cells, in row 15, and the busiest line is row 9 with 4 separate runs to place. Like every daily here, it has exactly one solution reachable by logic alone.

Clues for puzzle #228

Each clue lists the lengths of the filled runs in that line, in order, with at least one empty cell between runs. A clue of 0 means the line is empty.

Row clues (25 rows)
LineClue
11
21
31
41
51
65
78
82 9 2
92 2 6 3
109
118
128
138
147 8
1517
1617
1716
185 4
191
204
212 4
225 4 9
234 15
242 13
256
Column clues (25 columns)
LineClue
11
22
34
42 4
52 3 2
62 5
75
85
93 5
105 5 2
113 4 3
123 4 3
134 4 3 3
145 3 2
155 5 2
1612 3
1711 4
1810 4
198 4
207 4
217 5
227 6
232 2 6
244
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