Nonogram synonyms
Nonograms are also known by many other names. If you know of any more synonyms, or the details about who uses them, please tell me.
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About Nonograms — General information
- IllustLogic
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Japanese
- Paint by Numbers
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Invented by Tetsuya Nishio (date unknown). Published in/by Games Magazine.
- Oekaki-Logic
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“Oekaki” is Japanese for “drawing picture”.
- Picross
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A puzzle game for Nintendo's Gameboy
- StarPic/FigurePic
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This is a Windows game from Star Graphics, including coloured solids.
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StarPic Puzzle Game (FigurePic) (Paint by Numbers) — “Uncover the hidden pictures for hours of puzzle fun!” — A commercial site with a game for Windows, including coloured cells
http://www.stargraphics.com/star2.htm
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- PictureLogic
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Keith Wolcott wrote this shareware game for the PalmPilot which allows Nonograms to be created and solved. The software is available from many PalmPilot archives.
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This link appears to be broken. Seen it elsewhere?
PictureLogic — A solver and helper for a PalmPilot, and puzzle collections
http://www.trefoilknot.com/
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- CrossPix
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Liberty Software's implementation of “Paint by Numbers” takes the form of a Macintosh application or a Netscape plugin for Mac or Windows.
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This link appears to be broken. Seen it elsewhere?
CrossPix — This uses plug-ins for Netscape on Windows and Macintosh to give what I expect is a helper.
http://www.libertysoft.com/xpix/
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- Griddler
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As of 1998-07-26, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper in the U.K. publishes a Griddler each week in its Review section, having changed the puzzle's name from “Nonogram”. The numbering continued from the old name, so the first Griddler was № 409, “It's all in the name”.
- Pictograph
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These appear in The Courier-Times of Roxboro, NC, and also in The Wake Weekly of Wake Forest, NC.
- Japanese Crossword
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This name is used in some countries, including Russia.
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Cross+A. Nonograms — Shareware solver and crossword/anagram helper, from Russia; includes coloured puzzles
http://www.cross-plus-a.com/nonogram.htm
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- Hanjie
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Following the major tsunami of December 2004, a new name was chosen, it seems.
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Hanjie — A comprehensive site with information, puzzles, and a JavaScript helper — yet it somehow manages to avoid using the word ‘Nonogram’!
http://www.hanjie.co.uk/index.html
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- Pikurosu
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Another name
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Solving Paint-by-numbers puzzles in C# - The Code Project - C# Programming — It's a solver!
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/11286/Solving-Paint-by-numbers-puzzles-in-C
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- (Nemonemo) Logic
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‘Logic’ is the Korean name for Nonograms, shortened from the name of a book Nemonemo Logic. ‘Nemo’ is Korean for ‘square’.
(Thanks to 김경래 (Kjung-rae Kim)!)
- Nonogram
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A very brief history:
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In 1987, Non Ishida has the idea for a type of puzzle.
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In 1990, her sole agent outside Japan, James Dalgety, invents the name Nonogram after ‘Non Ishida’ and ‘-gram’ meaning ‘to draw’. (In fact, ‘-gram’ means ‘to write’.)
The Sunday Telegraph newspaper in the U.K. published a Nonogram each week in its Review section, usually offering a £50 book token as a prize. On 1998-07-19, it presented its last puzzle (№ 408, “Down Under”) under the name “Nonogram”, offering a £250 prize in a competition to select a new name.
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Notagrams — Things which are not Nonograms
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- Logigraphe
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This appears to be the name of a quarterly Nonogram magazine in France.
- Shady Puzzle
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According to the link below, someone in Singapore invented the puzzle concept independently, not realising it was already a decade old.
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This link appears to be broken. Seen it elsewhere?
Singapore a puzzle hub? Another shoddy reporting by the state media : The Temasek Review — An article about a concept Shady Puzzle being independently invented in 2005
http://www.temasekreview.com/2009/10/01/singapore-a-puzzle-hub-another-shoddy-reporting-by-the-state-media/
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