Web Paint-by-Number
Related Books & Magazines If you'd like to solve more puzzles like the ones on this site, this page lists some books that you can purchase from Amazon.com. I've actually seen only a couple these books, and never solved any puzzles from any except GWOP.

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Games Magazine

Games Magazine
Games appears ten times a year and is a general magazine for fans of board games and puzzles. It includes many articles, but also some pencil puzzles to solve, typically including some paint-by-number puzzles.

Games World of Puzzles
GWOP is a bi-monthly magazine from the publishers of Games containing nothing but puzzles from cover to cover. Each issue contains about 75 pencil puzzles, always including five or six paint-by-number puzzles, plus lots of good quality crosswords and such.

Games Magazine Presents: Paint by Number
The author of this book, Tetsuya Nishio, was one of the two people who independently invented this kind of puzzle. This older book, from the publishers of Games Magazine, contains some of his puzzles, mostly relatively simple.

Tetsuya Nishio Books

Tetsuya Nishio was one of the people who invented paint-by-number puzzles. He created the puzzles in the old Games book, and has lately been publishing a series of books that have earned good reviews. Don't be confused by the "Sudoku" in the title of the first book. These are 100% paint-by-number puzzles.

Sunday Telegraph

The Sunday Telegraph publishes paint-by-number puzzles in their newspaper. They originally called them "nonograms" but then changed the name to "griddlers". Most are apparantly on 30x35 grids. These are bound as regular paperback books, which can be less than ideal for puzzle solving.

Conceptis Puzzles

Conceptis sells nice spiral bound puzzle books with good, challenging puzzles, but has the annoying habit of republishing the same puzzles over and over again in books with different titles. The paint-by-number puzzles in the later three books are apparently mostly reprints of puzzles that originally appeared in. "Perplexing Pixel Puzzles" and "Mind-Sharpening Pixel Puzzles".

"Brain Baffling" and "Mind-Challenging" contain other types of pencil puzzles in addition to paint-by-number puzzles.

Note that the there are several other "Paint-doku" books, like Fill-In Paint-doku and Link-Up Paint-doku, but those are different types of picture puzzles. Apparantly Conceptis doesn't think there is enough confusion about paint-by-number nomenclature.

More Paint-by-Number Books

Here are more paint by number puzzle books, calling the puzzles by various names, like "Art Puzzles," "Hanjie" and "O'ekaki".

Mixed Puzzle Books

These books contain some paint-by-number puzzles, but also other types of puzzles.

Electronic Games

Here's software to solve paint-by-number puzzles on your Nintendo Gameboy or DS. In the Gameboy version puzzles were 15x15 or smaller. The DS version has some larger puzzles, up to 20x25, and allows you to create your own puzzles, which can be shared with your friends. There seems to be an emphasis on speed solving, with puzzle solving being timed and time penalties for mistakes, but the time limits are pretty generous.

The new 3D version seems to involve a rotatable cube made up of smaller cubes with number clues on them. You can blast away cubes to discover a picture.