Nonny
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Description
Nonny lets you play and create nonogram puzzles! Nonograms (also known as Griddlers, Picross, and Paint-by-Number) are logic puzzles played on a grid of squares. The squares are filled in or left blank according to numeric clues at the sides of the grid. When the puzzle is finished, the filled-in squares form a picture.
Nonny comes packaged with a selection of puzzles for you to play, and you can easily import puzzles from other sources. Nonny also allows you to create your own puzzles. There is a built-in solver which can be used to verify that your puzzles have only one solution.
Nonny tracks your completion status and times for each puzzle, and you may save your progress on a puzzle and resume solving it at a later time.
Download
Select an option below to download Nonny. The source code is also available on GitHub.
Nonny 0.1 Pre-release (2017-06-14)
- Source code: nonny-0.1.tar.gz (1.4 MB)
- Windows: nonny-0.1_w32.zip (2.8 MB)
Features
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Can play both standard and multicolor nonograms
- Tracks completion status for all puzzles
- Tracks time spent on solving each puzzle and records best completion times
- Will save your progress on unfinished puzzles
- Optional hint system shows you which lines can be further solved
- No explicit limits on puzzle size or complexity
- Information panel shows details about the current puzzle and shows a snapshot of the puzzle grid
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Can create both standard and multicolor nonograms
- Various drawing tools are available: draw lines, rectangles, and ellipses, or fill regions with a particular color
- Allows you to save title, author, and copyright information for each puzzle you create
- Undo and redo commands can be used while solving or editing puzzles
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Built-in solver and analysis tool
- Will solve most simple puzzles very quickly
- Can solve puzzles which require guessing or multi-line reasoning
- Can determine whether a puzzle has a unique solution
- Can determine whether a puzzle is solvable one line at a time
- Can find and display multiple solutions for a puzzle
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File selector displays puzzle information and allows you to load
and save puzzles anywhere and in various file formats
- Supports the .non format used in Steven Simpson's solver, extended with multicolor support
- Supports the .g and .mk formats used in Mirek Olšák and Petr Olšák's solver
- Supports the .nin format used by Jakub Wilk's solver
What Is a Nonogram?
Nonograms are logic puzzles originating from Japan. You start with a blank grid and then fill in the cells according to the clue numbers at the sides. When you finish the puzzle, you're left with a picture to look at:
For example, a clue of "4" means that you need to fill in four consecutive blocks somewhere within that line. By considering the different possible positions you can determine that some of the cells in the line must be filled:
Similarly, a clue of "1 2" means that one cell is to be filled, followed by a gap of at least one blank cell, followed by two consecutive filled cells:
By working line by line in this way, you can solve most puzzles. Harder puzzles may require more advanced techniques, but well-made puzzles should not require guessing.
Nonny also supports multicolor puzzles. These puzzles work the same way, but each clue number is colored to indicate which color the cells must be painted:
Adjacent blocks of cells of different colors need not have a gap between them. For example, a blue 2 followed by a red 2 means that there are two consecutive blue cells, possibly but not necessarily followed by a gap, followed by two consecutive red cells:
Again, by considering the different possibilities you can find cells that must be filled in, which gives you more information to solve the other lines in the puzzle.
Copyright
Nonny is copyright © 2017 Gregory Kikola. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later.
Nonny is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Nonny is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.