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#5Sun, Jan 5, 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 #5

Nonogram #5 appeared on Sun, Jan 5, 2025 as hard difficulty on a 20x20 grid. Its solution fills 176 of 400 cells — 44% density, a fairly open picture where empty cells do a lot of the work. The clues break down into 60 runs across all rows and columns. The longest single run is 19 cells, in column 8, and the busiest line is column 10 with 3 separate runs to place. Like every daily here, it has exactly one solution reachable by logic alone.

Clues for puzzle #5

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
22 8
32 9
49
59
69
79
83 5
96 4
1013
1116
1216
138 1
146 4
155
166
177
187 2
195 2
201
Column clues (20 columns)
LineClue
11
23
32 5
42 6
57
68
711
819
913 5
107 3 4
117 3 4
1211 3
1311 2
1411
1511
165 2
173 2
181 2
191
201