The New Fourm

Owen showed me this this morning and uh oh I'm hooked:

https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram

Nonogram is that puzzle where you have to fill in the squares according to the clues on the sides. It's also called Picross, if you ever played that. This website has every single possible 5x5 nonogram and people are collaboratively completing them all. There's a bit under 25 million of them. It's quite a bit, and a single person won't be able to make a big dent, but collaboratively I bet it can be done. They're super easy and if you like this sort of thing you can knock out a bunch of them. I've done 110! I need to be focusing on other stuff right now, but I thought I'd infect the puzzle-likers of you with the curse too.

I just came out of a trance; 100 of these solved and my lunch break 15 minutes over time

Oh no my evil plan worked too well and your employer is setting you on fire!! I'll extinguish you-- *gets distracted by nonograms*.

Look how good this one I got was:

Damn that's good to look at. One of the first ones I did was this one: https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram#20123953

It's slightly irritating how close it is to being symmetrical

EDIT: those anchor links don't seem to actually work RIP.
It was like so:

□	█	█	□	█
█	□	█	□	█
□	□	□	□	□
█	□	█	□	█
█	□	█	□	█

Just got one (20124091) that was like

█	□	█	□	□
█	□	□	□	□
█	□	█	□	█
□	□	□	□	█
█	█	█	□	█

Which I found pretty damn satisfying

BeelieveinBees wrote: Thu Jun 05, 2025 6:39 pm Just got one (20124091) that was like

█	□	█	□	□
█	□	□	□	□
█	□	█	□	█
□	□	□	□	█
█	█	█	□	█

Which I found pretty damn satisfying

is this loss

I have now done 300. The world is beautiful. The patterns have revealed themselves

I... have done 500 and missed my bus because I had no idea time existed.

BeelieveinBees wrote: Thu Jun 05, 2025 9:18 pm I... have done 500 and missed my bus because I had no idea time existed.

Bees I'm picking you up and putting you on a bus

Omg I did not mean to curse you This much. Please go home!! Then you can do more nonograms (please also remember to feed).