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#138Sun, May 18, 2025

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hard20 x 20
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A free nonogram (picross) puzzle, fresh every day. Use the row and column number clues to fill in the correct cells.

About puzzle #138

Nonogram #138 appeared on Sun, May 18, 2025 as hard difficulty on a 20x20 grid. Its solution fills 139 of 400 cells — 35% density, a fairly open picture where empty cells do a lot of the work. The clues break down into 61 runs across all rows and columns. The longest single run is 13 cells, in row 16, and the busiest line is row 11 with 3 separate runs to place. Like every daily here, it has exactly one solution reachable by logic alone.

Clues for puzzle #138

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.

Row clues (20 rows)
LineClue
11
21
31
41
52
64 1
75 4
87 3
98 3
107 4
112 5 5
123 5
133 5
144 6
159 3 1
1613
173 7
182 6
194
201
Column clues (20 columns)
LineClue
11
21
34
42 4
53 3
64 2
75 3
811
913
1013
113 4 4
123
135
146
159
166 3
179
189
198
201