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#1: Mark Conger (aruba) on Jul 31, 2006

This puzzle needs more whitespace to make it harder. What happens if you make the background white?

Yes, it's a nice enough image, but the scarcity of white space makes it uninteresting to solve.

Like the others said, more whitespace please.

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Cute puzzle but it certainly could've had a higher degree of difficulty.

I loved the absence of white space. I need easy puzzles.

Easy puzzles are still puzzles. This is an easy exercise in coloring. NOT a puzzle.

Completely agree with #8, and most of the other comments! It's a decent image, and with more white space it would probably make a very good puzzle. Thank goodness it wasn't just a bunch of random lines.

Maybe it's the "paint-by-number" name that throws some creators off? I don't know. But that term also makes me think of those 'art' pictures where you fill in all the areas following the color codes. (Do they still make those?). That's why I prefer the term "nonogram" but I think that name is under copyright. (??).

Anyway, back to the cave!

Yes, they still make those.

I'm not sure that the name "Nonogram" is a trademark or copyright, but at some point Non Ishida asserted that the name should only be used by her. Up till that time, that was the name the puzzles were best known by, but then everyone had to think up a new name, and everyone picked different ones.

My first experience with these puzzles was in Asia and they were known as O'Ekaki. Thats what I have always known them as until I found this website.

In reply to other discussions, I found them in the back of a Pennypress issue of England's Finest Logic Problems in December 2003. I did a few of the normal logic puzzles in the magazine, then I decided out of curiosity to try those first two puzzles. I solved them without much difficulty (not bad for a first attempt!) and I was hooked.

I shortly thereafter began looking for Web sites that featured similar puzzles, and one program I eventually found was called JMPuzzles. The ability to purchase this software no longer exists last I saw, but I did at one time do that and could probably activate it by looking in my old e-mails for the info. That aside, I also found a couple of other sources of puzzles, including more software, but some of the puzzles included in the sets weren't of the best quality (which goes for most places, I suppose).

I then stumbled upon www.conceptispuzzles.com and signed up there. Weekly puzzles included four PBNs, there known as Pic-A-Pix. I am still a member and their model has converted to many more types of puzzles; back then, they only had PAP, Link-A-Pix (LAP), and Fill-A-Pix (FAP); go there for more info on the other types. They have also converted from a free puzzles format that eventually moved to 6 PAPs to now having a paid puzzle system with one puzzle of each type free weekly, converting to paid the following week. They also now have mazes, dot-to-dot, and various number puzzles including Calcudoku. I have a collection of the free puzzles from the five or six years I was there before the current model. I have all sorts of Easter Egg puzzles. I have more puzzles between here and there than I'll ever be able to solve in my lifetime.

And I still find these unique and exciting every day. Take that, Sudoku! Oh, and the normal logic puzzles in the magazine? Never went back to them.

Well-done!

Geesh! I've come across a lot of complainers today! I like the picture, I think it's cute... When I make puzzles, I am thinking about the picture and what it's going to look like. I'm really not concerned about the degree of difficulty, it's just fun to make a picture... you know "paint by numbers". But it never fails -- someone will get on to complain about how easy it is and therefore they were bored by it, etc.... well, good for you that you're so smart. Personally, I usually don't have time (or the eyesight) for the more difficult ones and appreciate an easier one from time to time!

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