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1 --- 2 title: "Weeknote for 2025-W24" 3 description: "Every 5x5 Nonogram and other puzzles" 4 date: 2025-06-11T20:07:22-07:00 5 draft: false 6 categories: 7 - Weeknotes 8 --- 9 10 I have become obsessed with this puzzle website: [Every 5x5 11 Nonogram](https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram). 12 13 I was unfamiliar with nonograms when this came through my feed, but have since 14 learned that the genre originated in Japan and is probably best associated with 15 Nintendo’s Picross games. 16 17 A 5×5 nonogram is pretty easy, but that’s the secret to their addictiveness; 18 once you learn the rules most of them require no thought at all, but boards 19 requiring a little bit of inductive reasoning comes across _just often enough_ 20 to act as an effective reward schedule for me. It’s almost completely replaced 21 my habitual website-scrolling---a welcome change. 22 23 The fact that this is a community effort to actually solve all[^notall] 24 nonograms makes the endeavor feel charmingly “old web” too. I’ve already done 25 1,000 of these this week. I’m _hooked_. 26 27 ## Other web puzzles 28 29 Here are some of the daily puzzles I’m playing lately (now that I’ve finally 30 abandoned Wordle): 31 32 - [Metazooa](https://metazooa.com/)[^mz] 33 - [Rogule](https://rogule.com/) 34 - [RADDLE](https://raddle.quest/) 35 - [WikiDates](https://dates.wiki/) 36 - [GeoGrid](https://www.geogridgame.com/)[^geogrid] 37 38 [^notall]: I’m not sure why there are only about 74% of the 2²⁵ _possible_ 39 puzzles. My untested guess is that they removed the boards that don’t have 40 unique solutions. 41 42 [^mz]: I’ve learned _so many_ clades from this. 43 44 [^geogrid]: I find this one quite difficult.