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#169Wed, Jun 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 #169

Nonogram #169 appeared on Wed, Jun 18, 2025 as hard difficulty on a 20x20 grid. Its solution fills 140 of 400 cells — 35% density, a fairly open picture where empty cells do a lot of the work. The clues break down into 69 runs across all rows and columns. The longest single run is 17 cells, in row 16, and the busiest line is row 3 with 3 separate runs to place. Like every daily here, it has exactly one solution reachable by logic alone.

Clues for puzzle #169

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
12
21
32 2 2
43 3 2
54 4 2
63 5 2
75 2
84 1
94 1
105
115
125
134
144 2
154 5
1617
1717
185 7
192 3
201
Column clues (20 columns)
LineClue
12
23 2
34 5
43 7
58
62 4 5
78 4
89 3
99 2
108 2
113
123
134
143 5
153 6
165
174
182 3
194 2 2
201