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Ship Sailing Boat Nonogram (15×15)

This is the Ship Sailing Boat 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.

How this board opens

A first sweep of the overlap rule down the rows and across the columns settles 76 of the 225 cells, about 34%, which is enough of a skeleton to work outwards from. 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. 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 73 cells, and the longest unbroken run anywhere in the clues is 10.

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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