Musical Instrument Tambourine Nonogram (15×15)
This is the Musical Instrument Tambourine 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
- 88 of 225
- Longest run
- 5
- Typical time
- 20-40 min
- Category
- Music & media
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The overlap rule is stingy here: one sweep of it across every row and column yields 8 of the 225 cells, 4%, so most of this board has to be argued for rather than read off. The most generous opening is column 8, which gives up 4 cells on its own. Straight line logic carries it to 12 cells and then stalls, so the last 213 need cross-referencing between a row and a column that share a cell. The finished picture fills 88 cells, and the longest unbroken run anywhere in the clues is 5.
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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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