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Cocktail Straw Juice Nonogram (10×15)

This is the Cocktail Straw Juice nonogram — a 10×15 picture logic puzzle. Use the number clues beside each row and column to work out which squares are filled, and the picture appears as you go. Every square can be deduced; you never have to guess.

About this puzzle

Size
10×15
Difficulty
Normal
Filled squares
71 of 150
Longest run
15
Typical time
20-40 min
Category
Food & Drink

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How this board opens

A first sweep of the overlap rule down the rows and across the columns settles 38 of the 150 cells, about 25%, which is enough of a skeleton to work outwards from. The most generous opening is column 6, which gives up 10 cells on its own. One of the 25 lines is decided outright by its clue, with no room to slide. From there the board finishes on row-and-column logic alone — there is no point where you have to try a cell both ways and see which one breaks. The finished picture fills 71 cells, and one run in the clues is 15 long — near enough the full span of a line that it fixes itself the moment you reach it.

About this category

Food & drink is one of the larger themed shelves on Nonogram Hub, and it skews toward the harder end too: most of it sits at 15×15, there is a real cluster of full 20×20 pieces, and only a handful of smaller warm-ups are mixed in. Cups, fruit, slices of cake, bottles — the subjects are varied enough that no two puzzles here feel like the same picture in a different size, which matters when you're working through this many boards in one theme.

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