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diff --git a/content/posts/weeknotes/2025-w24/index.md b/content/posts/weeknotes/2025-w24/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +title: "Weeknote for 2025-W24" +description: "Every 5x5 Nonogram and other puzzles" +date: 2025-06-11T20:07:22-07:00 +draft: false +categories: +- Weeknotes +--- + +I have become obsessed with this puzzle website: [Every 5x5 +Nonogram](https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram). + +I was unfamiliar with nonograms when this came through my feed, but have since +learned that the genre originated in Japan and is probably best associated with +Nintendo’s Picross games. + +A 5×5 nonogram is pretty easy, but that’s the secret to their addictiveness; +once you learn the rules most of them require no thought at all, but boards +requiring a little bit of inductive reasoning comes across _just often enough_ +to act as an effective reward schedule for me. It’s almost completely replaced +my habitual website-scrolling---a welcome change. + +The fact that this is a community effort to actually solve all[^notall] +nonograms makes the endeavor feel charmingly “old web” too. I’ve already done +1,000 of these this week. I’m _hooked_. + +## Other web puzzles + +Here are some of the daily puzzles I’m playing lately (now that I’ve finally +abandoned Wordle): + +- [Metazooa](https://metazooa.com/)[^mz] +- [Rogule](https://rogule.com/) +- [RADDLE](https://raddle.quest/) +- [WikiDates](https://dates.wiki/) +- [GeoGrid](https://www.geogridgame.com/)[^geogrid] + +[^notall]: I’m not sure why there are only about 74% of the 2²⁵ _possible_ + puzzles. My untested guess is that they removed the boards that don’t have +unique solutions. + +[^mz]: I’ve learned _so many_ clades from this. + +[^geogrid]: I find this one quite difficult.