I have deep nostalgia for playing gameboy Mario’s Picross on a camping trip but I had literally no idea it was an entire genre of game I love this thread
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You should look specifically for « nonogram » on a site like amazon?
I thought they were near extinct but there are actually a few of them left
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this is just guessing but with a different colored pencil and a good eraser
(wow this is a harsh post what’s wrong with me)
Anyway I loved Picross DS and would even play the 2 player mode with my wife. I don’t think I beat all the puzzles, once they start getting too big my brain freezes up. I don’t think I’ve ever guessed at Picross, but really I just get stuck and never finish that puzzle.
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Well, in other words I’m not committing to a guess but just testing it. More like asking “why is this wrong?” Of myself than just throwing caution to the wind.
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With most Picross games (including the picross e series) I find that I never have to guess or even use the « Try out » option, but I need to use some advanced Picross strats I am constantly re-learning and re-forgetting.
Shady puzzles is the only exception, guessing is absolutely mandatory there
I like the option of the try-out feature but I tend to never use it because I figure doing the extra mental work is probably to my benefit
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i’ve played and finished the original picross game several times, on cartridge first, got stuck, then years later on emu, then somewhere around 2010 via gc-gb player again.
iirc, there was a second title that never made it over here? i remember playing a japanese version, but got pretty far in it…
anyway, doing dry runs in s. o’s mind is half the fun of picross, so i did a lot of that. good times…
Picross 2! My favorite Picross 
There’s a fan translation:
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mankind received a grim reminder
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I’ve been playing this nearly every day since learning about it in this thread. I generally avoid mobile games (other than Desert Golfing) but I like this sort of thing.
When I don’t get three stars on a puzzle for completing it quickly enough, I don’t know whether I should try not to care or go back and solve it again. The former is probably the best approach.
One panel of one of the weekly puzzles I tried took me almost an hour. Fortunately, there’s no time-based rating on those.
Last night, I had my first case of having to selectively wipe out areas to find where I’d gone wrong. This was also in one of those weekly puzzles, and it took me quite a bit of backtracking to get it right.
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These experiences are exactly my own
Yes ditto
If there are any other good mobile Picrosses let me know!
Two tips
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Only replay levels after you’re 30 hours in and have learned enough that you can plow through those then-difficult levels in less than two minutes
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Be as passionate about something as these people weirdly are about hot air balloons
(Lower left picture is what you see when you’re in a hot air balloon and look up)
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PicrossLUNA on Android has lots and lots of puzzles, and several giant multi-panel puzzles but the controls are not very good and the ads are intrusive. It’s not the worst, but it wouldn’t be my first recommendation.
I love that! Might have to steal that idea.
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I’ve done all of the 2014 weekly boards now in hungry cat it’s a real addiction
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I got Guru Logi Champ (not really picross?) thanks to the SB Recommends wiki and enjoyed it but saw that I was eventually getting in the habit of just doing enough puzzles to unlock the next cutscene, which you can just get on youtube anyway, and lost the desire to improvise my way through the puzzles I skipped over. I think it’s worth it for presentation and uh, attitude.
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