Web Paint-by-Number
Puzzle Export

This is an tool for exporting puzzles from the webpbn library in file formats that can be read by other programs that operate on paint-by-number puzzles, or at least the ones sensible enough to document their file formats.

Enter a puzzle number and select a format below. The result will be displayed in your browser. You'll need to cut/paste it to save it to a file.

If you are trying to find particular types of puzzles, and don't know what puzzle numbers you want, you should create a (free) account on webpbn.com and use the "Find Puzzles" function to search for puzzles.

NOTE: Puzzles on the webpbn site are copyrighted by the people who posted them. Exporting puzzles for personal use is fine, but it would be inappropriate to submit them to other puzzle archives on the web or distribute them in any other way without the permission of the puzzle author.

Puzzle ID: #
Format:
XML format used by Jan Wolter's pbnsolve program. Supports multi-color puzzles.
Include clues in export.
Include intended solution in export.
.PNM image file of the puzzle goal. Clues are not included. These can be converted to things like GIF, JPEG and PNG files using the netpbm package or many other image editing programs. Supports multi-color puzzles.
CSV format for importing puzzles into spreadsheets. Not for multi-color puzzles.
Excel format for importing puzzles into spreadsheets. Supports multi-color puzzles.
.NON format suitable for use as input to Steve Simpson's solver. Not for multi-color puzzles.
Include intended solution in export.
.SGRIDDLER format used by Juraj Simlovic's Griddlers Solver, a puzzle editor/solver for Windows. Not for multi-color puzzles.
Include clues in export.
Include intended solution in export.
.G file format used by the Olšáks' solver. Supports multi-color puzzles.
.MK file format also used by the Olšáks' solver. Not for multi-color puzzles.
.NIN File format used by Jakub Wilk's nonogram solver program. Not for multi-color puzzles.
.DZN datafile in MiniZinc format used for solvers such as Hakan Kjellerstrand's. Not for multi-color puzzles.
.NGB format as used by NonoPocket. This is untested. Not for multi-color puzzles.
An input format as used by PictureLogic. This is not the same as the .PDB format used for puzzle collections for that program. Those contain binary bitmap images of multiple puzzles. This has not been tested. Not for multi-color puzzles.
The input format as used by Robert Bosch's LP solver. Not for multi-color puzzles.
File format also used by Kenichi Ishigaki Games::Nonogram module for Perl. Not for multi-color puzzles.
.CWD text file format used by Alexander Meshcheryakov's qnonogram program. Not for multi-color puzzles.
.CWC file - an easily parsible multicolor extension of the CWD format used in Jan Wolter's Copris solver. Supports multi-color puzzles.
A compiled in C++ format used in the nonogram solver example for Gecode. Not for multi-color puzzles.
Format for Fran Faase's nonogram solver. Not for multi-color puzzles.
Format for Andrew Makhorin's pbnsol nonogram solver. Not for multi-color puzzles.
Format for Andrew Makhorin's example solver in the glpk distribution. Not for multi-color puzzles.
Format for version 1 of Kyle Keen's Python solver. Not for multi-color puzzles.
Format for version 2 of Kyle Keen's Python solver. Not for multi-color puzzles.
Lisp-like format for Yuval Lando's Racket-based solver. Not for multi-color puzzles.
Format for Evgeniy Syromolotov's jsolver. Not for multi-color puzzles.
Format for Anton Natarov's online solver. Not for multi-color puzzles.
Multicolor format for the Cross+A solver. Supports multi-color puzzles.