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Hotel Desk Reception Nonogram (15×15)

This is the Hotel Desk Reception 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
Normal
Filled squares
58 of 225
Longest run
13
Typical time
20-40 min
Category
Travel

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How this board opens

This one opens itself. One sweep of the overlap rule — every row read against its clue lengths, then every column — is worth 142 of the 225 cells, 63% of the board, before you have deduced anything of your own. The most generous opening is row 1, which gives up 15 cells on its own. 6 of the 30 lines are decided outright by their clues, 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 58 cells, and the longest unbroken run anywhere in the clues is 13.

About this category

Buses, cars, a taxi, a truck, a gearshift, trains running into a tunnel, ships from a small fishing boat to a modern hull at a dock, a sextant, a suitcase, a hotel reception desk, and the signage that surrounds all of it — a stop sign, a parking sign, traffic lights, the pictograms on a washroom door. It is the shelf of getting somewhere, and it is built almost entirely from objects that were designed to be recognised quickly.

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