Free Nonograms 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.

This is great

arnonro

The game rocks, I like it. A cool and simple puzzle game... Lots of fun!

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.