The Last Square They Fill Is Your Photograph
Your reader works the runs, counts the clues, and the grid stops being numbers. It becomes the lighthouse, the skyline, the face from the cover, because every clue was built from a picture you chose.
That is the Nonogram moment, picross, griddler, hanjie: row and column counts, filled cells, a picture at the end. Publishers skip it because one honest 25 by 25 used to mean an afternoon of cell counting and a second afternoon when two silhouettes both fit the same clues.
Nonogram is a nonogram puzzle generator that turns your photographs into those pages. Drop in the images you already shot. Each run writes the clue gutter on the problem image and a matching solution image in the same pass. Leave Only uniquely solvable puzzles on, the default, when you want the generator to hunt a board a person can finish without guessing.
Try the free demo on one of your own pictures before you pick an edition at the top of this page.
Why Picross Still Stops a Shopper Who Has Seen a Hundred Logic Grids
Sudoku is digits. Word search is letters. A Nonogram is the page they notice from three feet away: a half-solved picture, not another empty lattice.
The rule fits in two sentences. Each number is a run of filled cells on that line. What your reader has not done, until now, is recover your picture from those counts.
Plenty of catalogs still skip the type because the clue sheet was the bottleneck. You skip the week. You drop in the photos you already have for the cover, the class, or the series.
What You Can Create
- A picross book from your own photographs, one image per puzzle, cover art waiting as page one
- Black-and-White collections that read like the magazine grids solvers already know
- Word and drawn-design pages from Creative up: type a word, or paint your own picture on the grid editor
- Printable sheets at 10 by 10 or 25 by 25, each with a full-size solution for marking
- Large grids up to 90 on a side when you want a long sit
- Mixed logic books where this is the visual chapter beside types you already publish
- Worksheet packs for Etsy or Teachers Pay Teachers: one source picture in, one puzzle page out
Twenty pictures make twenty puzzles, one per image, in list order. Folders expand in the source list.
Drop In the Photo. The Clues Write Themselves.
Hand-drawn picross is how a wrong clue reaches print. Here the photograph is the specification. Set rows and columns. The module center-crops to that aspect, samples each cell, and writes the runs.
Set the Darkness threshold until the silhouette is the one you meant.
Leave unique on when you want the generator to hunt one right fill. Switch unique off and it runs one full solve at the size you typed. Either way you get a problem image with the clue gutter and a solution you can print with or without clues on the key.
Trim blank rows and columns at the edges when you want the picture tight. Smart Titles can pull the image file name, folder name, and grid size so a folder of city photos names itself.
From Creative up, the picture does not have to be a photograph. Type a word on the Text tab and pick the font, and the word becomes the puzzle. Or paint your own design on the grid editor, which shows the clues as you draw and tells you whether the design has one solution.
From One Picture to a Whole Picross Book
One photograph is a puzzle. A book is a stack of photographs at the sizes your readers can finish, each with its own solution image.
Same size: lengthen the image list. Mixed chapters need Time Saver on Productivity: each row is a chapter with its own size and image folder. One puzzle still needs one image.
Instant Puzzle Books is on every edition: a finished book PDF from the page settings you already have. Puzzle Book Studio, also on every edition, lets you edit that interior page by page. On Productivity, several collections can share one spine. Every book carries a title page, contents, and a puzzle-to-solution footer on each page.
On Productivity, the same set can leave the desktop as JSON for your own catalog tools when your export flags are on.
Which Edition Should You Choose?
| Nonogram | Creative | Productivity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black-and-White picross from your images | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Random pictures, typed words, and drawn designs | Yes | Yes | |
| Instant Puzzle Books | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Puzzle Book Studio | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Combine several collections into one book | Yes | ||
| Time Saver batches | Yes | ||
| Customer JSON | Yes | ||
| Sell finished books and printables to your own readers | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sell or supply generated puzzles to other publishers | Yes |
Nonogram fits picture books from your photo list, built with Instant Puzzle Books or Puzzle Book Studio.
Creative fits books that mix photo pages with word and drawn-design pages.
Productivity fits mixed chapters, JSON export, and supply to other publishers.
You can move up to any higher edition after you buy.
Who This Is For
KDP and print-on-demand publishers who want picross interiors that only they could have made, because the pictures are theirs.
Teachers and worksheet sellers who need a pack they can mark against a full-size solution image.
Publishers already running Puzzle Maker Pro who want the visual logic chapter their mixed books were missing.
Try It Before You Buy
Drop one photograph you like into the demo and print the page at the size you sell. Demo output is watermarked. Paid files are not.
Licensing and Commercial Use
Every edition lets you sell the finished books, worksheets, and packs you make to your own readers and customers.
Productivity adds the right to sell or supply the generated puzzles to other publishers and sellers.
Source photos still need to be yours, or licensed for the store you sell on.
Product Details
| Product | Nonogram |
| Shop editions | Nonogram; Creative; Productivity; Creative + Interactive; Productivity + Interactive |
| Platform | Windows desktop |
| Internet required | No for generating |
| Grid sizes | 10 to 90 per side (default 25 by 25) |
| Picture sources | Your images or the built-in silhouettes, one puzzle per image; random pictures, typed words, and drawn designs from Creative up |
| Unique solution | Optional; on by default |
| Output formats | PNG, JPG, transparent PNG; JSON on Productivity |
| Puzzle books | Instant Puzzle Books and Puzzle Book Studio on every edition |
| Time Saver | Productivity |
| Upgrades | Any edition upgrades to any higher edition after purchase |
| Tutorial hub | Nonogram tutorials |
| Free demo | Yes |
| Delivery | Immediate, in your member area |
Questions Before You Buy
Is there a free demo?
Yes. Nonogram is in the app. Demo output is watermarked.
Can I upgrade later?
Yes. Move up to any higher edition after you buy.
How does a Nonogram work?
Clues above columns and beside rows list run lengths. Fill cells until the picture appears.
Will every puzzle have only one answer?
Leave unique on for the human-solvable hunt. Switch unique off for a single full solve at the size you typed.
Can I make letter or word nonograms?
Yes, from Creative up. Type the words on the Text tab, one per puzzle, and pick the font.
Can I sell what I make?
Yes, from the first edition up. Productivity adds supply rights for the puzzle files.
Put Your Picture on the Page They Finish
Without a visual logic title, the next book is another grid of numbers or letters. With one, the shopper sees your photograph hiding inside the clues.
Download the free demo. Then choose your edition at the top of this page.
