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Nonogram & Water Sort guides
Follow the reasoning, see what changes, and try the ideas in a puzzle. Worked lessons and a small line helper connect useful rules to examples you can check.
Start with the rules
Learn Nonogram with a 5 × 5 example
Read a clue as a group of filled squares, leave the required gaps, and use crossing lines to finish a small picture. The lesson also shows why overlap can reveal a square before you know where the whole group starts.
Finish the complete example, then open a fresh copy of that exact 5 × 5 puzzle.
5 × 5 grid · Clues, gaps and overlap
Understand a useful deduction
Explore Nonogram overlap
Compare the possible placements of a line's clues and see which squares they share. Use single-group and multiple-group examples, then enter a row or column of your own in the line helper.
Add known marks to see how a crossing line can reveal another certain square.
5, 10 or 15 squares · Interactive line helper
Build on what you know
Solve a 10 × 10 Nonogram
Work through all 100 squares of practice puzzle 02 in six illustrated stages. Start with exact fits, use overlap, then let the rows and columns narrow each other down. Each new mark has a reason you can check against the clues.
Try the same fixed board in tutorial mode after following the full solution.
10 × 10 grid · Six stages, no guessing
Think one pour ahead
Follow Water Sort level 6
Sort coral, blue and mint in six explained pours. The diagrams show what each move uncovers and why the fifth bottle can stay empty. Match the starting bottles first: this is level 6 in Puzzle Perch, and another game's level 6 may be different.
Open a fresh level 6 tutorial in one click while keeping your regular progress.
Three colors · Five bottles · Six pours
Know when a rule stops helping
When to use both empty bottles
Level 8 needs both supplied empty bottles. Follow ten pours to see how occupied buffers create a new empty bottle, then inspect the reproducible checks of all 24 starting levels.
Try the exact level 8 tutorial, with your regular puzzle kept separately.
Three colors · Ten pours · A checked strategy example
Examples you can check
The walkthrough diagrams follow fixed puzzles from our games. The line helper compares possible arrangements of your clues and marks; Water Sort pours follow the game's actual rules. Each resource shows how its result follows from those rules.
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Ready for a different puzzle?
Try daily Nonogram in either size, or choose any of the 24 puzzles in Water Sort. Both run free in your browser without an account or download.
The walkthroughs use fixed examples; the line helper checks the clues you enter. Daily Nonogram selections change at midnight UTC and rotate through a verified bank, so patterns can repeat.