Picross DS (PUZZLE GAME. NINTENDO FOR DS. $19.99. ESRB RATING: Everyone.) Picross DS takes elements of Minesweeper and Sudoku and filters them through retro 8-bit visuals. That may be enough of a draw ...

The third Picross game in the 'S' series is launching on Switch later this week, aptly named Picross S3. If you're a fan of the puzzle series, you'll no doubt be interested in picking it up, and this ...

A new website invites Wii and PC owners to design, share, and solve picross puzzles. If you're not familiar with picross, they're logic puzzles that are sometimes known as Paint By Numbers, as their ...

Nintendo will provide downloadable puzzle packs for Rittai Picross (Solid Object Picross) with a little help from you. Just like Picross DS these extra puzzles will be distributed for free over ...

This one is technically cheated because CiniCross hasn’t released. It’s currently set to launch soon on PC, but the concept is so strong that I would highly recommend every Picross fan check out the ...

I hate picross. I've never been able to figure out the "trick" to the traditional square picross puzzle, driving myself to frustration any time I try to teach myself how to fill in the correct number ...

A description of how a typical Picross puzzle plays out won't be the most exciting thing you'll read today, but bear with me for a moment as I run through the rules. You'll start with an empty grid of ...

When it comes to puzzle games, I'm not usually the guy you'd go to. Crosswords make me cross-eyed, word jumbles often cause hemorrhages in my brain, and aside from the "uber-hard" word searches there ...

Rittai Picross (3D Picross) is a twist in the evolution of nonogram logic puzzles. Instead of marking spots you chisel a rectangular solid. Each brick has numeric clues written on the faces. A number ...

The director of the UK government's super-secretive snooping agency GCHQ has included a puzzle with his Christmas cards this year, and the public have been invited to have a stab at solving it as well ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Picross Makeout League tests your love of picross through puzzle-themed dates. Picross Makeout League is a short visual novel about a group of ...

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