CrossMe Color Nonograms
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Free | Dynamix Software | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
You will discover a hidden picture by filling in cells on a game field. With a large number of puzzles, you won’t let you get bored!
The first levels have hints for beginners, while more experienced Japanese crosswords players can find more challenging, larger puzzles. It’s easy to learn how to play the game, but you will need logical and analytical skills.
"Simple and awesome! It's the game I looking for, it's lightweight, simple, addicting."
"Love this game. Great controls. Keeps me from having to buy so many puzzle magazines and books...and pens!"
"Awesome game! I love this picross...some of the puzzles are hard to figure out..but that makes it a challenge!"
"Very addictive griddlers! I play every chance I get."
"Great! If you want to challenge your self, then this is the app for you!! A very good way to keep your brain busy!"
Features:
- More than 400 puzzles (24 free)
- 8 levels and sizes, ranging from 5х5 to 90х90
- Unlimited random nonograms
- Easy controls
- Ancient Japanese design
- Hints
- Syncing between devices
Japanese crosswords, also known as nonogram, hanjie, griddlers, picross, crucipixel, edel, figurepic, grafilogika, japanilaiset, karala!, kare, logicolor, logigraphe, oekaki, oekaki-mate, pic-a-pix, pikurosu, ristikot, shchor, square, tsunami, uftor or paint by numbers puzzles, started appearing in Japanese puzzle magazines. Non Ishida published three picture grid puzzles in 1988 in Japan under the name of "Window Art Puzzles". Subsequently in 1990, James Dalgety in the UK invented the name Nonograms after Non Ishida, and The Sunday Telegraph started publishing them on a weekly basis.
In japanese nonograms the numbers are a form of discrete tomography that measures how many unbroken lines of filled-in squares there are in any given row or column. For example, a clue of "4 8 3" would mean there are sets of four, eight, and three filled squares, in that order, with at least one blank square between successive groups. To solve Japanese nonogram, one needs to determine which squares will be filled and which will be empty.
These nonograms are often black and white, describing a binary image, but they can also be colored. If colored, the number clues are also colored to indicate the color of the squares. In such crossword two differently colored numbers may have a space in between them. For example, a black four followed by a red two could mean four black boxes, some empty spaces, and two red boxes, or it could simply mean four black boxes followed immediately by two red ones.
Hanjie has no theoretical limit on size, and is not restricted to square layouts.
Griddlers were implemented by 1995 on hand held electronic toys in Japan. They were released with name Picross - Picture Crossword.
Reviews
My fav
Motherhubbard58
Love this game. Can’t get enough. When will there be an update with new puzzles. I’m ready!!
Best nonogram I’ve found.
Appleigo
I’m even willing to pay for these. They are totally worth the cost!! My only complaint is that the Hints don’t seem to work. The upside is that it has forced me to persevere. I haven’t had to give up on one so far.
Love these puzzles
Joanna in TX
I love these puzzles—so much so that I've completed all of them! Any chance y'all will be adding new puzzles any time soon? It looks like new ones were being added fairly often in the past but nothing new in over 9 months. Just curious.
Very good and well designed puzzle app
Torr_________________________
Lots of puzzles, very smooth controls. Very good design. One suggestion I have is that instead of double tapping a color on the screen to mark a square we could have the mark as one of the colors on the bottom.
This game is awesome
Jtay4318
I have a brain condition so I play logic games like this to help with my symptoms and Not only is this a good game to distract myself from the pain but it’s got some great complex puzzles perfect for keeping your brain sharp
Too hard to read clues
Tiggiep
When you finish a color the game indicates it by putting a slash over the number in the same color as the number. It’s difficult to see on my iPad, I can’t imagine on a phone. It would be far better if they indicated it was done in some other way. I love the puzzles, but I can’t play if I’m straining to read the clues.
I can't stop playing
soxwally
This app is so addicting. The best nonogram games yet. Many different levels to play. I find them relaxing and challenging. For a small fee (I don't remember what it was really but it was not much) you can play all the levels or you can watch an ad after the first levels to play more. I like that you don't have to finish a level to move on. That way if I get stuck on a level, I can leave that puzzle and work on another. The more puzzles I do the better I get. Hope the developers keep new puzzles coming.
