This is my game! I was recently curious about how many 5×5 nonograms can be solved purely with logic, no guessing. After running my nonogram solver on all 33,554,432 possible pixel combinations in a 5×5 grid, it turns out the answer is 24,976,511.
Inspired by One Million Checkboxes, I thought it would be cool to create a realtime, collaborative nonogram game where we can collectively try to complete all ~25 million of these puzzles. Just launched it this afternoon and its already at 65k solved!
This is a downright hazard. I scrolled down to find one that wasn't solved yet, and the next thing I knew it was 30 minutes later and I had solved a hundred of them.
In my youth I was considering drawing all possible 8×8 1bit color pixel icons and never got around to it. Probably it is the time to finally do it, and maybe even go further with 2 bit colors?
I haven't seen anyone say this out loud, so here's my $0.02:
Since every box is either filled in (1) or not (0), a solved 5×5 nonogram can be encoded as a 25-bit unsigned integer. So would a 6×6 (36), 7×7 (49), 8×8 (64), etc.
… So if desired, an AES-256 key can be encoded as a solved 16×16 nonogram. The perimeter hints can then be derived by Alice and given to Bob as a weak form of information obfuscation.
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10 Comments
okayestjoel
This is my game! I was recently curious about how many 5×5 nonograms can be solved purely with logic, no guessing. After running my nonogram solver on all 33,554,432 possible pixel combinations in a 5×5 grid, it turns out the answer is 24,976,511.
Inspired by One Million Checkboxes, I thought it would be cool to create a realtime, collaborative nonogram game where we can collectively try to complete all ~25 million of these puzzles. Just launched it this afternoon and its already at 65k solved!
Let me know if you have any feedback.
anxiousbuddhist
This is a ton of fun!
A really useful feature would be to hide finished and/or in progress ones so I don't have to scroll forever.
Great work, nicely polished, cool idea.
tantalor
No but really how do I play. Do I click something to start a puzzle?
01HNNWZ0MV43FF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram
scythe
This is a downright hazard. I scrolled down to find one that wasn't solved yet, and the next thing I knew it was 30 minutes later and I had solved a hundred of them.
butz
In my youth I was considering drawing all possible 8×8 1bit color pixel icons and never got around to it. Probably it is the time to finally do it, and maybe even go further with 2 bit colors?
NooneAtAll3
idk if it's a bug or smth, but it keeps resetting the page to the top of the section
I can't start solving from the middle
bspammer
This is great, but someone is going to ruin the fun with a bot eventually, I hope you have a way to remove “solves” by IP.
fph
There must be a swastika picture in there, somewhere.
x-complexity
I haven't seen anyone say this out loud, so here's my $0.02:
Since every box is either filled in (1) or not (0), a solved 5×5 nonogram can be encoded as a 25-bit unsigned integer. So would a 6×6 (36), 7×7 (49), 8×8 (64), etc.
… So if desired, an AES-256 key can be encoded as a solved 16×16 nonogram. The perimeter hints can then be derived by Alice and given to Bob as a weak form of information obfuscation.