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#42Tue, Feb 11, 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 #42

Nonogram #42 appeared on Tue, Feb 11, 2025 as hard difficulty on a 20x20 grid. Its solution fills 178 of 400 cells — 45% density, a fairly open picture where empty cells do a lot of the work. The clues break down into 65 runs across all rows and columns. The longest single run is 14 cells, in column 6, and the busiest line is column 12 with 4 separate runs to place. Like every daily here, it has exactly one solution reachable by logic alone.

Clues for puzzle #42

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
38
410
511
64 8
75 8
85 6
95 5
104 6
113 4 8
129 3
139 1
149
155
165
179
1813
1912
201
Column clues (20 columns)
LineClue
11
21
31
44
53 6
614
713
814
95 4 3
104 3 3
114 4 3
125 1 5 3
1311 2
1410 2
159 2
1610 2
1711 2
186 2
194
201