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#243Sun, Aug 31, 2025

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hard20 x 20
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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 #243

Nonogram #243 appeared on Sun, Aug 31, 2025 as hard difficulty on a 20x20 grid. Its solution fills 146 of 400 cells — 37% density, a fairly open picture where empty cells do a lot of the work. The clues break down into 62 runs across all rows and columns. The longest single run is 16 cells, in column 11, and the busiest line is row 7 with 3 separate runs to place. Like every daily here, it has exactly one solution reachable by logic alone.

Clues for puzzle #243

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 (20 rows)
LineClue
11
21
33
41 6
512
62 11
74 4 3
83 3 2
93 4 2
1010 3
1111 1 4
1213 4
1310 1
145
155
165
175
182
191
201
Column clues (20 columns)
LineClue
11
23 2
38
47
55
64
76
88
913
1014
112 16
123 4 3
133 1 1
144 2
154
164 2
174 3
1810
198
201