Wednesday, March 30, 2005

NonoGrid and Canasta

I have owned a canasta game for many years created by Mark-Jan Harte from BP Games. It Is a great card game. He has now created a game called NonoGrid.

Nonograms are logic puzzles, in which you need to uncover a picture consisting of black and white squares. You start out with an empty grid and you use clues and logic to find out which squares in the grid should be black or white. The puzzle may have a title which can give you a clue as to what the final picture will be.

These puzzles originated in Japan and are very popular. Nonograms are known under many different names, e.g. griddlers, japanese puzzles, picture crossword puzzles or crosspix. Even Nintendo has created two nonogram games for the Gameboy, Mario's Picross and Picross 2.

Give them a go - if you like logic puzzles then these are definitely fun.

I have also been playing Magic Vines lately. This is a fun (and progressively hard) game. Also a great logic puzzle and great for a 10 minute break from coding.


Posted by: Jethro | 12:31 AM |