Every 5x5 Nonogram - Press Kit
Collaborative, realtime nonogram web game
Every 5x5 Nonogram
Nonograms (a.k.a picross or griddlers) are a logic puzzle game where you use numerical clues to uncover a hidden picture. In my weekly newsletter, I asked the question: How many 5x5 nonogram puzzles are there? Doing the math, there are 33,554,432 possible pixel combinations in a 5x5 grid. Of course, not all of those are valid puzzles. A valid nonogram has to be solvable and have a unique solution - no guessing required. Running my nonogram solver, I determined that there were 24,976,511 possible valid 5x5 nonogram puzzles.
This inspired me to create a web game where you could play all ~25 million of these puzzles. Since this is an almost impossible task for any one player, I made it a collaborative game, so when one player solves a puzzle, it solves it for everyone else. I was inspired by One Million Checkboxes, a collaborative web social experiment from 2024.
Totally Free
This web game is free for anyone with a web browser to play with no ads.
