Free Nonograms
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Free | Hanaan Rosenthal | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
5 start review:
"If you are an expert at Sudoku growing tired of nailing every puzzle in less than 5 minutes and are looking for a challenge, Nonograms is for you."
- Jack Thorp
5 start review:
Not for the faint of heart
“This isn't an easy game....at least not for me. (…) it's logic, with numbers and being an original puzzle designed by the Japanese, clearly challenging, which is a true compliment! Brilliant minds will find it simple, for those who like challenging puzzles, it's worth the money but again, not for everyone. For some, it might be over one’s head. I love that very element and did an immediate download. I'm curious what others may think.”
- mallorysd
You’ve been having a great time playing Sudoku but you’re ready for something different. Bored, you decide that you might as well find out what all the excitement is about with those Nonograms. Your friends seem to think they are cool, so what the heck, it’s worth a look.
You start by visiting the Nonograms website at puzzle-nonograms.com that your friends told you about. Sweet! There are some of those Nonogram puzzles for you to try out. Can they capture your interest and challenge your skills? You bet they can! You can say good-bye to boredom from now on.
The goal is to fill cells in a grid according to the provided hints. If you think it’s easy, you haven’t played Nonograms. Go ahead and try one, you’ll see. You can watch the timer go, or just enjoy solving them slow and easy.
While the puzzles are a test of your skills, the controls are smooth and comfortable. They’ve been specifically designed for the iPhone's small screen and are effortless to use!
Okay, you’re convinced that Nonograms are great fun. Now, to download the app to your iPhone. Which of the 10,000 unique puzzles will the app randomly choose for you first? You were looking for challenge, right? Well, you’ve found it.
All of the puzzles in Nonograms will keep you glued to the screen. You’ll be hooked from the first one you try. Are Nonograms too hard to ever figure out? Nope, but neither are they easy. Your brain and powers of logic come into play here. Make it easier on yourself and start from the smaller 5x5 and work your way up to the bigger puzzles.
Just check out what you get with the Nonograms app:
* Clean interface, distraction free
* Slick, effortless controls, designed specifically for the iPhone's small screen
* Puzzles range in size from simple 5x5 to challenging 20x20
* Over 300 unique Nonograms (Pro version has 10,000!)
* Auto-fill feature fills a complete row or column with 'x'. Very useful for larger puzzles
* Save your current, unfinished puzzle to take another crack at later
* Compare your scores with other players using an online scoreboard
* Challenge yourself with the 'Daily Puzzle' and see how you rate against others who try it
* Multiple undos and redos ensure that you can always recover from a recent mess up
* Turn game sounds off and on
* Turn tilt movement off and on
* Game timer keeps you engaged
* Puzzles are designed by Atanas Georgiev, operator of puzzle-loop.com
If you love solving puzzles but want real challenge, Nonograms is for you. Download the app now and pit your skills against these unique, professionally developed games. You are in for the time of your life.
Reviews
The only playable Nonograms game I’ve found
abarnert
This game is far from perfect—ugly, a bizarre menu that I still haven’t figured out after all these years, and the whole “3 hints” system annoys me. Plus, I paid for the old version, but now I’ve been “upgraded” to the free one. So, why would I rate it 4 stars? Because it gets all the basics right, and not a single one of its competitors is even close. Seriously, while this game was unavailable, I was so desperate for a minimally playable nonogram game that I slapped together my own crappy web-based one that was kinda-sorta playable on an iPhone, because none of the other options in the store were even kinda-sorta playable. Thankfully, this one is back, and next time I’m stuck waiting for a Lyft, I’ve got something to do again. What are those minimal basics? * Interface actually usable for 20x20 on an iPhone. * Generates unlimited puzzles. * Respects the obvious constraints, like no ambiguous puzzles. * Doesn’t include bizarre “gamification” stuff that badly gets in the way of actual puzzle solving. * No intrusive ads that are so poorly implemented they often freeze the game.
I'm not impressed
lutherrose
True, in the light version there are 325 puzzles. But as far as I can tell, the puzzles aren't pictures. All of the previous apps that do not make a picture haven't gotten good reviews. There are far better versions of this particular game and those of us that play these type of games know which ones they are. 10,000 games is absolutely way cool but not having some type of color or a design makes having 10,000 puzzles completely useless, unless you like puzzles for puzzles sake. Also, any decent company can make puzzles that aren't pictures. It takes the great ones to make them color and look like something. Keep trying. For right now I'll stay with color cross and pixel plus and griddlers.
Challenging & fun
FM Developer
I'm enjoying the challenge this game offers, and it's very well executed. It reminds me of Kakuro, but it's more purely spacial: no arithmetic to distract from finding the pattern that works. I'm sure it'll keep me challenged for a long time!
Pictures?!?!
Drano_A7
These puzzles are a waste of time. They don't appear to be anything. The controls are quite bad compared to similar games. Glad I didn't spend money on the full version!
Addictive
jigarama
This is a great version of nonograms. I have done most of the games like these and this is one of the best controls. One request is the ability to turn off the slide filler. Also having a difficulty level might be cool.
Misses the point.
Jason Wodicka
There are two things to judge a nonogram program on: quality of the controls, and quality of the pictures. The controls are mediocre at best. Nonograms involve working with an often-large grid, and there are well-established patterns for zooming and scrolling around a grid on the iPhone. Instead, I got a set of cursor-buttons and an unzoomable grid for all but the smallest puzzles, and a button for marking cells. The method for marking more than one cell is clever, but didn't work well for me. The pictures, however, are what destroy this app: there are none. The puzzles are all random blobs of black and white, with no coherent image to see once the puzzle is completed. Given that the entire appeal of this sort of puzzle is in using logic to reveal a hidden image, it's just useless to have a nonogram app that doesn't actually have images.
game changer
bigzaftra
This application changed my life. I used to think that these sudoku type things were just for people that didn't have any friends, but Nonograms Lite opened my eyes to a whole universe of intellectual challenge! Forget Chess, Go, Quantum Mechanics: all I need from now on is Nonograms Lite!
Quitting unexpectedly
Mellie :)
I love nonograms the game but I hate this app. Every time I play, the game unexpectedly crashes on me making me lose the game or even several games. It also just Locke d me out of a game I was playing and froze the app. It hasn't been fun dealing with the app and I will not pay for the app if it is this bad on the freebie.
Meh.
grinder2112
I'm a huge fan of picross/nonogram games, but acknowledge they are hard to implement on a small screen--even if that screen is high resolution. The cursor keys are a good alternative to having a full touch interface, but in this application it is sluggish and unpredictable. The graphics are fortunately simple and muted, so as not to distract from the puzzle, but I would have liked an icon presentation of the puzzle so that you can see a picture emerge and not just feel like your finding an arbitrary pattern. All in all: not awful; not great.
