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Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples

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Re: Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples

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Post by merelysounds »

I built this, the list started as a tutorial and then grew out of control. Especially when I started experimenting with mixing text and interactive elements. I think nonograms are underrated and relatively unknown, I hope this text changes it a little.

I link to my app[1] frequently, it's free right now, I hope this is fine. There's no Android version yet; for anyone who wants to try nonograms on an Android smartphone I recommend Simon Tatham's Puzzles[2] - like my app it is also free, has no ads, etc; nonograms there are called "pattern".

Feedback very welcome; thanks! If you use other nonogram solving techniques and want me to add them to the list please share too.

[1]: https://lab174.com/nonoverse/

[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details

Re: Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples

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Post by netghost »

merelysounds wrote: post #2

I built this, the list started as a tutorial and then grew out of control. Especially when I started experimenting with mixing text and interactive elements. I think nonograms are underrated and relatively unknown, I hope this text changes it a little. I link to my app[1] frequently, it's free right now, I hope this is fine. There's no Android version yet; for anyone who wants to try nonograms on an Android smartphon…

Wonderfully done, thanks for sharing!

Re: Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples

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Post by evgpbfhnr »

merelysounds wrote: post #2

I built this, the list started as a tutorial and then grew out of control. Especially when I started experimenting with mixing text and interactive elements. I think nonograms are underrated and relatively unknown, I hope this text changes it a little. I link to my app[1] frequently, it's free right now, I hope this is fine. There's no Android version yet; for anyone who wants to try nonograms on an Android smartphon…

Great js implementation! I don't have any iThing but I'd happily play your js version in a browser for a while.

Since you mentioned Simon Tatham puzzles there's a js version here[1], but it really just isn't quite as good

[1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/patt...

(if I were to nitpick, for large grids one might want to make the separating line a bit thicker every 5 blocks for faster counting, and repeat numbers at the bottom/right -- but at the size the examples are in neither are needed)

(BTW you didn't mention for overlapping but there's a nice trick: just try from either end, count how many cells are leftover, and take that off the starting side of each block)

Re: Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples

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Post by polymax »

merelysounds wrote: post #2

I built this, the list started as a tutorial and then grew out of control. Especially when I started experimenting with mixing text and interactive elements. I think nonograms are underrated and relatively unknown, I hope this text changes it a little. I link to my app[1] frequently, it's free right now, I hope this is fine. There's no Android version yet; for anyone who wants to try nonograms on an Android smartphon…

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Re: Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples

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Post by swiftcoder »

polymax wrote: post #5
merelysounds wrote: post #2

I built this, the list started as a tutorial and then grew out of control. Especially when I started experimenting with mixing text and interactive elements. I think nonograms are underrated and relatively unknown, I hope this text changes it a little. I link to my app[1] frequently, it's free right now, I hope this is fine. There's no Android version yet; for anyone who wants to try nonograms on an Android smartphon…

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How? If you look at the purchase history in your apple account it should show the actual price, and in mine it shows as free

Re: Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples

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Post by esperent »

merelysounds wrote: post #2

I built this, the list started as a tutorial and then grew out of control. Especially when I started experimenting with mixing text and interactive elements. I think nonograms are underrated and relatively unknown, I hope this text changes it a little. I link to my app[1] frequently, it's free right now, I hope this is fine. There's no Android version yet; for anyone who wants to try nonograms on an Android smartphon…

The Google play link is broken for me:

> We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server.

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