Pic-a-Pix: Nonogram Color

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4.4
3.37K reviews
100K+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this game

Paint squares as you solve the puzzle and discover a beautiful pixel-art picture! Each puzzle consists of a blank grid with clues on the left of every row and on the top of every column. The object is to reveal a hidden picture by painting blocks in each row and column so their length and sequence corresponds to the clues.

Pic-a-Pix are exciting logic puzzles that form whimsical pixel-art pictures when solved. Challenging, deductive and artistic, this original Japanese invention offers the ultimate mix of logic, art and fun while providing solvers with many hours of mentally stimulating entertainment.

The game enables zooming the entire puzzle, or just the grid area while keeping the clue-panes locked. Other features include a unique fingertip cursor for playing large puzzles with ease and precision, and a show/hide/lock rulers option helping focus on one row and column at a time.

To help see the puzzle progress, graphic previews in the puzzle list show the progress of all puzzles in a volume as they are being solved. A Gallery view option provides these previews in a larger format.

For more fun, Pic-a-Pix contains no ads and includes a Weekly Bonus section providing an extra free puzzle each week.

PUZZLE FEATURES

• 155 free Pic-a-Pix puzzles in color and B&W
• Extra bonus puzzle published free each week
• Puzzle library continuously updates with new content
• Manually created by artists, top quality puzzles
• Unique solution for each puzzle
• Grid sizes up to 30x45 (45x60 for tablet)
• Difficulty levels from very easy to super challenging
• Hours of intellectual challenge and fun
• Sharpens logic and improves cognitive skills

GAMING FEATURES

• No ads
• Zoom entire puzzle or just the grid area
• Clue-pane locking option for optimal puzzle viewing
• Rulers show, hide or lock option for easier row and column viewing
• Exclusive fingertip cursor design for solving large puzzles
• Unlimited check puzzle
• Unlimited hints
• Unlimited Undo and Redo
• Mark Squares mode for temporary markings on the grid
• Clue auto check-off when row or column is completed
• Automatically mark obvious empty squares with dots
• Concurrently playing and saving multiple puzzles
• Puzzle filtering, sorting and archiving options
• Dark Mode support
• Graphic previews showing puzzles progress as they are being solved
• Portrait and landscape screen support (tablet only)
• Error checking option when row or column is completed
• Track puzzle solving times
• Backup & restore puzzle progress to Google Drive

ABOUT

Pic-a-Pix have also become popular under other names such as Picross, Nanogram, Pictogram, Griddlers, Hanjie and many more. All puzzles in this app are produced by Conceptis Ltd. - the leading supplier of logic puzzles to printed and electronic gaming media all over the world. On average, more than 20 million Conceptis puzzles are solved each day in newspapers, magazines, books and online as well as on smartphones and tablets across the world.
Updated on
Sep 28, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.2
2.59K reviews
Rovert Karnag
December 24, 2024
The free puzzles are fun. Also bought two puzzle packs, one color one b/w. Color pack had very poor quality images and were way easier than similarly rated free puzzles. Black and white pack 'easy' had a few stupid hard puzzles compared to same difficulty free ones. To further increase the frustration the 'show hint' assist button does nothing at all. Very disappointing and I ended up unsatisfied with both purchased packs.
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Conceptis Ltd.
December 4, 2024
Thank you for your feedback, and sorry to hear you had a bad experience with these puzzles. If you want to rectify this situation, please send us an email to support@conceptispuzzles.com explaining which packs you had these issues with. We will then find a way to give you a free pack which we hope you will find challenging and interesting.
Andrea Harthorn
September 9, 2025
One of my all time favorite apps! But I would like more pack organizing options. Be able to sort by BW vs color puzzles and show all puzzles purchased of a certain size or difficulty. The more packs I purchase, the harder it is to find the type of puzzle I'm in the mood for. I would also love if my online/website account could be linked to the app so pack purchases could be shared across Apple and Android devices (don't want to buy packs twice just to play on Android phone and iPad)
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Conceptis Ltd.
December 22, 2022
thank you for your suggestions. We have already added sorting and filtering features to the iOS version of the app, and plan to do the same for Android later next year. This is a huge project which will take time, but you can already see how it will work if you have an iOS device around you.
Alfonso Cevallos
July 22, 2025
Love the game. My only request would be to add optional hints when I get stuck. And I don't mean just giving away an entry, but highlighting some strategy that is relevant at that moment, so I can improve my technique. That would be great!
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Conceptis Ltd.
August 1, 2025
Thank you for your feedback and suggestion, and we will look further into the option of explaining a technique or a strategy. In the meanwhile you can use the Assistant, and when you see the hint immediately tap somewhere on the screen. Then, you can analyze the row or column in which the hint was shown to try and figure the next step

What’s new

This version improves performance and stability.