Free printable nonograms with answers
A nonogram, also called a picross or a griddler, is a picture hidden behind numbers. The clues beside each row and column are the lengths of the filled runs, and shading the cells the clues demand reveals a picture. Every puzzle here is proved to solve by logic alone, with no guessing.
By size
Size is what makes a nonogram harder: a bigger grid has more lines to hold in your head at once. Start on a 5 by 5 and work up to a 15 by 15.
Easy nonograms
Free printable easy nonograms with answers. A gentle 5 by 5 grid that solves in a couple of minutes, with the picture on page two. No sign-up.
Medium nonograms
Free printable medium nonograms with answers. A 10 by 10 grid for everyday solving, each with one picture reachable by logic. Print with the solution.
Hard nonograms
Free printable hard nonograms with answers. A 12 by 12 grid with longer clues and more lines to track. One logical solution, printed with the picture.
Large nonograms
Free printable large nonograms with answers. A 15 by 15 grid, the biggest here, for a long logic solve with the picture on page two. No sign-up.
By name and audience
The same puzzle goes by several names, and suits several solvers. Picross, griddler, or a gentle grid for a child or a beginner, they all solve the same way.
Picross puzzles
Free printable picross puzzles with answers. The picture-logic puzzle made famous on handheld consoles, on paper, solved by logic. Print with the picture.
Picture nonograms
Free printable picture nonograms with answers. Each grid hides a recognisable shape, a heart, a cat or a sailboat, with exactly one solution. Print with the picture.
Griddler puzzles
Free printable griddlers with answers. The newspaper name for a nonogram, a picture hidden behind row and column clues. Solved by logic, printed with the answer.
Nonograms for kids
Free printable nonograms for kids with answers. Small 5 by 5 grids that teach counting and logic, with a picture to reveal. Print with the answer.
Nonograms for beginners
Free printable nonograms for beginners with answers. Small grids to learn the rules, each solvable by logic with no guessing. Print with the solution.
One picture, proved by logic
The thing that makes a nonogram book worth printing is the guarantee most sellers cannot make: that the clues have exactly one picture, reachable without guessing. Every puzzle is generated by painting a picture, reading its clues, and running a line solver that proves the deductions alone finish it. The solved picture prints as the answer key, so it can never disagree with the clues.
How to solve a nonogram
The numbers around the grid describe a hidden picture. Shade the right squares and it appears.
The method
- 1Read the clues as runs. Each number is a block of shaded squares in that row or column, and the numbers are given in order.
- 2Start where the numbers are tight. A long run, or several runs that nearly fill a line, leaves only one way to place them. Shade what every arrangement agrees on.
- 3Mark the empty squares too. Cross out squares you can prove stay blank. Those crosses often force the next shaded square.
- 4Cross-check rows against columns. A square shaded for a row must satisfy its column as well. Work the two together until the picture is complete.
- The one rule
- Each line is shaded to match its clue numbers in order, with at least one blank between runs.
- What the answer page shows
- Every solved picture is printed at the back, so you can check your grid.
- How the grades differ
- Small grids reveal a simple shape fast. Larger grids hide more detail and take more cross-checking.
- Good for
- Anyone who likes a picture as the reward, from quick warm-ups to a long solve.
Make one now
Pick a size from a gentle 5 by 5 up to a 15 by 15, then print the puzzle and its solved picture. No sign-up, no watermark.