Nonogram
Daily Nonogram #1 Tuesday, September 29, 2026 easy
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A nonogram is a picture logic puzzle painted directly on a grid. The numbers along the left and top edges tell you how many consecutive filled cells appear in each row and column. Mark the right cells and a hidden picture emerges; mark the wrong ones and the picture breaks. Every nonogram on this page is generated to be solvable by pure logic, so you never have to guess.
This is today’s daily nonogram. It is the same puzzle for everyone, it resets at midnight UTC, and every past daily puzzle is kept in the archive forever. If one a day is not enough, unlimited mode serves endless random nonograms at three difficulty levels.
How to Play Nonogram
New to the format? The full rules take two minutes to learn: read the step-by-step guide with a worked example on the how to play nonograms page, then come back for today’s puzzle.
Nonogram Tips
- Start with the largest clues. A row of 10 cells with the clue [7] always has at least 4 cells you can fill immediately, wherever the block ends up.
- Count the slack. For a clue list, add up the blocks plus one gap per extra block; the difference from the row length tells you how far any block can slide.
- Cross out what you prove is empty. Marking X on cells that cannot be filled is just as valuable as filling cells: it shrinks the search space for the crossing clues.
- Work the intersections. After every deduction in a row, re-read the column clues that cross the cells you just changed; nonograms are solved by ping-ponging between rows and columns.
- Watch the struck-through clues. A clue line that is fully satisfied should be marked empty for the rest of the solve, so you stop re-checking it.
Nonogram Difficulty Levels
Daily nonograms rotate in difficulty through the week: Monday and Tuesday puzzles are small 5×5 warm-ups, Wednesday to Friday are 10×10 mid-size grids, and the weekend brings the big 15×15 picture puzzles for long sessions with a coffee.
In unlimited mode you choose the size yourself: 5×5 easy nonograms when you want a quick win, 10×10 medium nonograms for a focused break, and 15×15 hard nonograms when you want the full picture-painting experience.
Printable Nonogram Puzzles
Every daily nonogram can be printed as a clean black-and-white sheet with the grid, the clues and a separate answer section at the bottom, ideal for classrooms, road trips, or puzzle nights away from a screen. Use the print link below today’s puzzle or browse the archive for any past date.
Print today’s nonograms or pick any date from the archive to print an older puzzle.
Play More Nonograms
One puzzle a day not enough? Unlimited nonograms generates fresh grids on demand, and the daily archive holds every past puzzle since launch day.