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Musical Instrument Flute Nonogram (15×15)

This is the Musical Instrument Flute nonogram — a 15×15 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
15×15
Difficulty
Hard
Filled squares
57 of 225
Longest run
4
Typical time
20-40 min

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How this board opens

The overlap rule is stingy here: one sweep of it across every row and column yields 29 of the 225 cells, 13%, so most of this board has to be argued for rather than read off. The most generous opening is row 15, which gives up 15 cells on its own. 2 of the 30 lines are decided outright by their clues, with no room to slide. Straight line logic carries it to 29 cells and then stalls, so the last 196 need cross-referencing between a row and a column that share a cell. The finished picture fills 57 cells, and the longest unbroken run anywhere in the clues is 4.

About this category

Two related shelves sharing one room. On one side are instruments — a harp, an accordion, a marimba, a leather drum, panpipes, a flute, a tambourine, a piano keyboard, a sheet of notation and a single quaver. On the other is the gear that captures and plays things back: a clapperboard, a film reel, a television, a webcam, a security camera, a loudspeaker, a set of VU meters. The two halves look unrelated until you solve a few and notice they fail in the same way.

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