#501 — Sat, May 16, 2026
Past puzzle — replay any time. Does not affect your streak.
A free nonogram (picross) puzzle, fresh every day. Use the row and column number clues to fill in the correct cells.
About puzzle #501
Nonogram #501 appeared on Sat, May 16, 2026 as hard difficulty on a 25x25 grid. Its solution fills 263 of 625 cells — 42% 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 15 cells, in row 23, and the busiest line is row 21 with 4 separate runs to place. Like every daily here, it has exactly one solution reachable by logic alone.
Clues for puzzle #501
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 | 2 3 |
| 3 | 2 4 6 |
| 4 | 10 7 |
| 5 | 10 8 |
| 6 | 8 8 |
| 7 | 6 7 |
| 8 | 5 6 |
| 9 | 3 3 |
| 10 | 2 2 |
| 11 | 4 |
| 12 | 3 6 |
| 13 | 11 |
| 14 | 11 |
| 15 | 12 |
| 16 | 4 7 |
| 17 | 2 7 |
| 18 | 2 5 |
| 19 | 3 6 |
| 20 | 3 3 4 |
| 21 | 3 2 4 5 |
| 22 | 4 9 5 |
| 23 | 15 2 |
| 24 | 13 |
| 25 | 5 |
| Line | Clue |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 4 |
| 5 | 2 3 |
| 6 | 3 2 |
| 7 | 2 2 2 3 |
| 8 | 3 12 |
| 9 | 5 12 |
| 10 | 7 5 4 |
| 11 | 8 4 4 |
| 12 | 9 5 3 |
| 13 | 7 5 4 |
| 14 | 5 5 4 |
| 15 | 2 6 4 |
| 16 | 8 3 |
| 17 | 9 |
| 18 | 2 11 |
| 19 | 4 3 5 |
| 20 | 6 3 5 |
| 21 | 6 4 |
| 22 | 7 2 |
| 23 | 8 2 |
| 24 | 9 2 |
| 25 | 8 |