Bowling Ball Nonogram (15×15)
This is the Bowling Ball 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
- 64 of 225
- Longest run
- 6
- Typical time
- 20-40 min
- Category
- Sports
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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 64 cells, and the longest unbroken run anywhere in the clues is 6.
About this category
The smallest of the newer shelves and the most mixed. Some of it is the equipment: a baseball, a bowling ball and its pins, a rugby helmet, a kettlebell, a bicycle, a ski, a karate belt. The rest is what happens afterwards — a trophy, a medal, a chequered finish, and the numbered places on a podium. Worth knowing before you browse, because a fair part of the shelf is awards rather than sport, and if you came for equipment specifically there is less here than the label suggests.
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