#281 — Wed, Oct 8, 2025
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About puzzle #281
Nonogram #281 appeared on Wed, Oct 8, 2025 as hard difficulty on a 25x25 grid. Its solution fills 229 of 625 cells — 37% density, a fairly open picture where empty cells do a lot of the work. The clues break down into 102 runs across all rows and columns. The longest single run is 16 cells, in row 23, and the busiest line is row 13 with 4 separate runs to place. Like every daily here, it has exactly one solution reachable by logic alone.
Clues for puzzle #281
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.
| Line | Clue |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 3 2 |
| 3 | 5 5 |
| 4 | 1 6 4 |
| 5 | 4 7 3 |
| 6 | 3 8 1 |
| 7 | 3 9 |
| 8 | 3 9 |
| 9 | 6 2 |
| 10 | 4 3 |
| 11 | 1 2 |
| 12 | 1 1 3 |
| 13 | 1 3 3 4 |
| 14 | 6 3 4 |
| 15 | 5 3 4 |
| 16 | 3 4 2 |
| 17 | 4 |
| 18 | 5 |
| 19 | 9 |
| 20 | 10 |
| 21 | 10 |
| 22 | 10 4 |
| 23 | 16 |
| 24 | 14 |
| 25 | 2 |
| Line | Clue |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 5 2 |
| 5 | 5 3 |
| 6 | 3 3 |
| 7 | 2 4 |
| 8 | 7 2 |
| 9 | 2 2 5 |
| 10 | 3 6 |
| 11 | 4 6 |
| 12 | 5 6 |
| 13 | 6 3 7 |
| 14 | 8 12 |
| 15 | 7 13 |
| 16 | 7 1 9 |
| 17 | 6 8 |
| 18 | 3 3 |
| 19 | 3 |
| 20 | 3 |
| 21 | 3 4 3 |
| 22 | 5 7 3 |
| 23 | 4 8 3 |
| 24 | 2 2 3 2 |
| 25 | 1 |