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Hats Viking Helmet Armor Nonogram (20×20)

This is the Hats Viking Helmet Armor nonogram — a 20×20 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.

How this board opens

A first sweep of the overlap rule down the rows and across the columns settles 184 of the 400 cells, about 46%, which is enough of a skeleton to work outwards from. The most generous opening is column 10, which gives up 16 cells on its own. 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 213 cells, and one run in the clues is 19 long — near enough the full span of a line that it fixes itself the moment you reach it.

About this category

Hats and masks make an unusually top-heavy category: most of it is full 20×20 boards, the rest sits at 15×15, and there is a single 10×10 as the only real warm-up. Proportionally that makes hats & masks the most 20×20-heavy set on the whole site — if you specifically want the big grids, there's a higher concentration of them here than anywhere else, the larger food & drink category included.

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